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Risk Management and Regulation (FNCE90022)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2019
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This subject covers financial institutions and risk management. Topics include: financial system structure and evolution, the banking industry, funds management and life insurance, regulation, trends in the financial system, value-at-risk, hedging and risk management with futures, interest rate forwards and futures, futures options, interest rate options, exotic options, derivative disasters.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Explain the risks arising from financial intermediation;
- Evaluate risk management and pricing practices in financial institutions;
- Describe the regulatory environment in which banks and other deposit taking institutions operate;
- Compare international regulatory environments for banks and central bank roles;
- Analyse the effects of regulation;
- Analyse the key components of a bank's financial statements;
- Describe the sources of market and credit risks for both financial and non-financial firms;
- Analyse the products and mechanisms for hedging market and credit risks;
- Apply techniques for hedging financial risks.
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Collaborative learning
- Problem solving
- Team work
- Statistical reasoning
- Application of theory to practice
- Interpretation and analysis
- Critical thinking
- Synthesis of data and other information
- Evaluation of data and other information
- Using computer software
- Accessing data and other information from a range of sources
Last updated: 3 November 2022