Finance & Banking

Finance and Banking will introduce you to the nature of banking and the main financial markets in which banks operate. The kind of issues you will study in this program are:

• Why do banks exist?
• Why is banking so heavily regulated?
• What are the essential differences between retail and wholesale banking?
• How does the structure of the banking industry differ between different countries?
• How can the derivative markets be used by banks and their customers to manage financial risk?

Many exciting changes are taking place in banking and financial markets. The internet, and other developments in information technology are changing the nature of banking. New derivative products offer new possibilities for managing financial risk as well as bringing new risks for users. After studying this course, not only will you be better prepared for studying the intermediate and advanced courses in the degree of Banking and Finance but you will also have gained knowledge and insight which will help you make sense of many of the developments affecting banking and financial markets that you read about in newspapers or see on television.

The Course Routes and Course Modules available for the study of Finance and Banking at AUOL are shown here: