Postgraduate Finance 2023-2024

This course provides students with an understanding of the financial system by introducing students to the reasons for, and nature of, financial markets and financial institutions, before moving on to explore the need and importance of regulation, investigate the causes and consequences of the recent 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and discuss future reform.

The trend towards financial globalisation in recent years has impacted on all financial decisions, which has necessitated the understanding of international financial markets, especially for multinational businesses. This course analyses a wide range of issues in international finance and their practical applications. This course also examines the challenges and problems faced by firms in the global marketplace in doing international business during the next decade from the international finance perspective.

This course aims to cover the building blocks of financial management in the international business context.

It is of primary concern to corporate managers, and all the considerations needed to make financial decisions both inside and outside firms.

This course will introduce machine learning, artificial intelligence and forecasting with applications in finance. The course will explore recent trends in FinTech, which are based on data analytics and recent advances in machine learning.

The course is based on Python, which has become the dominant general-purpose programming language in data analytics and machine learning.

Students are required to take CS5076 Introduction to Programming in the first sub-session; hence, the course expects a basic level of programming skills in Python.

While violent crime has exhibited a considerable decline in most developed countries, financial crime and cyber-crime have flourished.

This course provides an overview of financial crime and major cyber security risks. To evaluate risk and develop preventive methods, it is important to learn how cyber-criminals work.

This course follows strict ethical hacking guidelines.

We introduce the main tools used by cyber-criminals including the dark web, TOR hidden services, private operating systems, cryptocurrencies, encryption, scanning, enumeration, and penetration testing.

Students are required to take CS5076 Introduction to Programming in the first sub-session; hence, the course expects a basic level of programming skills in Python.

This course provides students with an understanding of the financial system by introducing students to the reasons for, and nature of, financial markets and financial institutions, before moving on to explore the need and importance of regulation, investigate the causes and consequences of the recent 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and discuss future reform.

This course aims to provide students with the quantitative skills to undertake extended investigation of financial data and assist in financial decision making. It introduces various standard time series techniques such as univariate and multivariate time series modelling, unit root tests, and volatility modelling. Particularly emphasis is on intuitive discussions of the methods, and practical examples and applications are also included.

This course expands knowledge and understanding of modern portfolio theory in a real-world setting. Our theme is to use a trading simulator to develop and use investment strategies to trade at market prices with an allocated capital sum. Techniques of financial analysis using established ratios and company analysis are developed in a practical manner and portfolios of assets can be built with transactions logged, and comparisons of asset performance with other asset classes and market indices.