International Banking

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• key available financial instruments and workings of financial markets, including roles of speculators, investors and bankers; the role and impact of banks in the economy and markets;
• the need for appropriate regulation and supervision, and the actual regulation and bank behaviour observed in key markets.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• interpret official announcements and engage in public debates in the media and professional publications concerning financial and macroeconomic issues.
• evaluate the risks and rewards associated with different financial instruments, and financial institutional settings; understand key workings of financial markets and the economy in general;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate data, and use it in order to act upon it;
• enhance your analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
• evaluate and interpret critically official publications by banks and authorities and compare this to empirical reality;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand the risks and potential rewards of certain financial instruments; understand better the workings of financial institutions and banks.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: The class tutor will take you through the answers and explain the answers in detail.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.