Finance and Investment

The aims of this module are to develop an understanding of the financial professional's role in managing company performance.

The aims of this module are:

• to develop a broad understanding of core issues in finance
• to develop numerical reasoning and the ability to interpret numerical data.

The module aims to provide an overview of the financial system, including: an appreciation of the economic problems that financial institutions and markets seek to overcome; an understanding of the organisation and operation of the major financial institutions and markets; an appreciation of the impact of technology and regulation on the evolution of the industry; and an awareness of how alternative structures of financial systems seek to solve common problems.

The aims of this module are:

• to enhance students' financial literacy
• to develop students' abilities to analyse and interpret company financial performance.

The aim of this module is to provide students with a solid foundation of the econometric techniques and skills that form the basis for the quantitative/econometric modules of their Masters course. The module aims to provide students, through lectures and computer lab workshops, with the practical techniques economists often use to handle, analyse and interpret economic data.

The aims of this module are to develop an understanding of the financial professional's role in managing company performance.

The aims of this module are:

• to develop the skills which will allow the student to apply knowledge and understanding to complex issues in portfolio management.
• to apply tools of analysis to critically evaluate portfolio management issues and performance outcome
• to build on the skills/knowledge from semester one module Principles of Finance (BSP421) and selectively apply these in a portfolio context.

The aims of this module are to:

• deepen and broaden students' understanding of conceptual and theoretical issues in accounting and financial management through real life examples;
• develop an understanding of the analysis of firms' financial reports relevant to the investment decision and firms' valuations.
• develop an understanding of, and apply, the tools and techniques available to value the stock of listed public companies and apply them;
• develop and enhance transferable skills.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to derivative instruments and their use in risk management.

The aims of this module are:

• to equip students with an understanding of economic concepts and models appropriate to business decision making;
• to contribute to other management disciplines.

The aims of this module are to:

• To assess the role that financial technologies (fintech) and their applications play in global markets.
• To develop a deeper understanding of fintech business models from a digital innovation perspective.
• To explore and evaluate the ethical and developmental impacts of fintech innovations.

The aims of this module are for students:

• To develop a critical understanding of modern corporate finance theory and its associated concept in an international business context;
• To provide students with a deeper understanding of the key financial decisions made by public limited companies within the international financial environment in which they operate;
• To enable students, through the application of appropriate tools and techniques, to both evaluate and solve complex corporate finance problems.

The aims of this module are to:

• build on the pre-requisite module Principles of Finance;
• develop a thorough understanding of the practice of financial management in companies operating in the international environment.
• develop critical reasoning skills in the context of international financial risk management.

The aim of this module is to equip students with a sound understanding of the concepts, tools and practical experience of using new cryptography based data technologies to disintermediate and promote innovation and competition across financial services. New financial technologies support the use of shared and open data in banking and other financial services. Examples include Open Banking pioneered in the UK, data services on credit scores and other information to support alternative lending platforms, and the use of distributed ledger technologies (DLT or blockchain) to provide a shared permanent data record. These technologies also underpin the rapidly evolving innovations in cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and decentralised finance, seen by many as a disruptive alternative to mainstream finance.

Students will learn, primarily through case analysis, about the supporting technologies and how these allow a supporting 'eco-System¿ of third parties to compete in providing financial services. They will also examine the challenge posed for incumbents competing against challengers and maintaining and innovating banks own systems; and the associated public policy issues concerning financial, privacy and competition regulation. The module will also examine the emerging initiatives in 'crypto¿ and 'decentralised finance defi that are still at an early proof of concept stage but challenging many of the accepted arrangements in traditional finance.

The aim of this module is to equip students with the quantitative techniques necessary to conduct empirical work in the area of applied finance and economics.

The aims of this module are to develop the skills which will allow the student to:

• assess complex issues in international investment.
• apply tools of analysis to critically evaluate global investment phenomenon
• to build on the skills/knowledge from semester one and semester two modules, especially Portfolio Management (BSP425) and selectively apply these in a global context.

The aims of this module are:

• to develop an understanding of corporate governance and responsibility
• to explore different governance mechanisms.

The aim of this module is for the student to become familiar with the application of standard tools of financial analysis to trading operations in foreign exchange, security and derivative markets. It covers valuation of trading positions, trading strategies and the measurement and management of market risk. The course will be delivered using a combination of workshops and a trading simulation.

The aims of this module are:

• To develop sound research skills and techniques to successfully complete projects which can be applied in the future either in industry or in further study.
• To provide an opportunity for original investigation in the field of financial markets and to apply skills students have learned during semesters 1 and 2 of the MSc programme.
• To develop a detailed understanding of the process of research design.
• To conduct and sustain in-depth independent study on a single Finance topic.