EF5341 - Bank Management in the Global Market | ||||||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||||||
The course aims at helping students acquire the knowledge in developing a bank’s strategy in its quest for business opportunities across borders and addressing issues faced by bank managements in cross border operations. There will be special emphasis on issues related to Bank Management in Greater China region, so as to prepare students for a professional life in that particular context. The second part of the course examines contemporary issues affecting bank risk management in the international context. Important issues are country and sovereign risks, as well as bank counterparty risk, including the regulatory environment under which banks operate in other jurisdictions. Through direct analysis of current issues –recent examples are the sub-prime crisis and the European debt crisis-, students can develop skills at gauging overall risks associated with international banking activities. Students should learn how to identify and evaluate those fast changing risks and to adapt and innovate in the face of the challenges such changes raise. Students are given an opportunity to prepare a special report on a specific topic in a particular country or in a particular group of countries in order to apply to real life issues the theoretical concepts developed in the course. The assignments are presented and debated with the other students. Examples of topics in recent years are: bank valuation across borders, long-term trends in bank liquidity management, sovereign debt assets etc… | ||||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||||
Coursework: 75% | ||||||||||||
Examination: 25% | ||||||||||||
Examination Duration: 3 hours | ||||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||||
| EF5341.pdf | ||||||||||||
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| Department of Economics and Finance | ||||||||||||
