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QB2501: FINANCIAL MARKETS AND REGULATION (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:10


Course Overview

This course provides students with an understanding of the financial system, primarily from a UK perspective, introducing students to the reasons for, and nature of, financial markets and institutions before moving on to explore the need and importance of financial regulation, and investigating the causes and consequences of the recent global financial crisis. The course will introduce students to a variety of topics including the role of wholesale and retail banks, non-bank financial institutions, the debt and equity markets, and the derivative markets; market efficiency, UK and international regulation, consumer protection and market abuse.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Alessandro Ala

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of Master Of Arts In Business Management (Qatar) or Master Of Arts In Politics & International Relations (Qatar) or Master Of Arts In Accountancy-Finance (Qatar) or Bachelor Of Science In Computing Science (Qatar)
  • QB1503 Introduction to Finance (Passed)
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Programme Level 2

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

  1. Analysis of the economics of financial markets, services and products.
  2. Identification of the sources and persistence of market failure in financial services and the classic regulatory issues.
  3. Study of the regulatory issues, models and structures exposed in the regulation of the banking industry, in the UK and internationally.
  4. Extension of regulatory principles to the analysis of other segments of financial services, notably markets in insurance.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

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Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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