BANKING AND FINANCE MSC
- IELTS 6.5 Overall not less than 5.5 PTE 59 Overall not less than 59 Upto £2000 IELTS 6.5 Overall not less than 5.5
- PTE 59 Overall not less than 59
The banking and finance industry has become a major end-user and even a major driver of technological innovation, such as machine learning, big data analysis and algorithm trading. This course uniquely combines theory and applications of finance, economics, quantitative methods, and big data analysis to allow you to increase your career opportunities in this fast paced field.
Based near the heart of the UK’s financial centre, our MSc Banking and Finance degree provides the foundations for a career in financial services and the banking industry.
This course emphasises prominent contemporary issues for the sector such as financial regulation, risk management, corporate finance, banking institutions, equity analysis and securities markets. It covers all aspects of the industry from macroeconomic and corporate to computational and quantitative.
We’ll also teach you advanced skills in financial modelling, econometrics, equity analysis and quantitative risk management that will leave you in an excellent position when entering the industry.
What you will gain
By the time you graduate from this course, you will have developed a thorough theoretical and practical understanding of:
- Banking theory and regulation and compliance of financial institutions
- Financial assets, such as equities, fixed-income securities and derivatives
- Financial engineering and other quantitative techniques to evaluate financial instruments
- Financial databases such as Bloomberg, Datastream, Eikon and Thomson Reuters
- Equity analysis and investing in financial markets.
About your course
Our modules are specifically structured to give you plenty of time to utilise large amounts of data and explore complex subjects to their fullest. The course will equip you with the theory and practice needed to communicate and evaluate empirical work, as well as give you valuable training in specialist databases and software packages. You will then move on to explore relevant theories such as financial derivative products, international financial regulation, financial risk management and key aspects of equity analysis and corporate finance, as well as how to apply them to practical situations in the financial sector. The dissertation research project is a chance for you to extend your knowledge of a selected topic and apply it to the formulation and design of a substantive investigation.