International Finance: Law and Regulation examines the legal and regulatory issues affecting major transactions in the global financial markets. These include: international and domestic loans, bonds, trading in debt instruments, securities offerings, securitisation, derivatives and structured products. The course examines how financial transactions are structured and documented, the international and municipal regulatory norms affecting them, and the legal and regulatory issues which arise from the creative transaction planning and their related policy concerns.

Exam:

- Students' ability to apply the legal principles to given situations, to resolve problems, and to communicate arguments in writing will be tested.

- Students' ability to analyse and critically evaluate, and to communicate arguments in writing will be tested.

Applicable to students admitted before Semester A 2022/23 and in Semester A 2024/25 & thereafter

Students must obtain a minimum mark of 40% in examination and an overall mark of 40% in order to pass the course.

 

Applicable to students admitted from Semester A 2022/23 to Summer Term 2024

Students must obtain a minimum mark of 50% in examination and an overall mark of 50% in order to pass the course.