International Banking and Business Models
Brief description
- Fundamentals of financial intermediation
- Basic financial concepts
- Definition and manifestations of financial intermediaries
- Functions and duties of financial intermediaries
- Special features of banking operations
- Financial contracts with symmetrical and asymmetrical information
- Banking operations and services
- Framework conditions for banking business activities
- Tasks of financial markets
- ESCB: ECB and NCB
- Banking supervision
- International banking systems: Banking structures in Austria, CEE; Western Europe, USA and Japan
- Valuation of bonds
- Sensitivity ratios of bonds and bond portfolios
- Controlling the interest rate risk of a portfolio with derivatives with respect to the current regulatory frameworks.
Mode of delivery
Präsenzveranstaltung
Type
Pflichtfach
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Wernz Johannes (2020): Bank Management and Control: Strategy, Pricing, Capital and Risk Management (Management for Professionals), Springer, 2nd ed.
Handout ”Introduction to the Banking Industry“
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, self-study elements, blended learning with video tutorials, individual home assignments, discussions on solutions, case analysis, teacher feedback on individual home assignments.
Assessment methods and criteria
Continuous assessment (30%): quality of the work assignments and tasks completed by the students, written quizzes and written final exam (70%)
Prerequisites and co-requisites
None
Infos
Degree programme
International Banking and Finance (Master)
Cycle
Master
ECTS Credits
4.00
Language of instruction
English
Curriculum
Part-Time
Academic year
2024
Semester
1 WS
Incoming
Yes
Learning outcome
After successful completion of the module, the students can
- illustrate principles of the banking business
- describe the banking systems in Austria and explain their differences at an international level to banking systems in CEE, Western Europe, USA and Japan in particular.
- explain the theoretical foundations of the existence and functions of financial intermediaries
- recall regular banking operations and services as well as special features of banking operations
- identify and describe the tasks of financial markets, the European Central Bank, the National Central Banks and banking supervisors.
- list the basic organizational and institutional characteristics of Fixed Income products
- calculate the international regulatory Fixed Income risk parameters impact on the bank´s P/L.
- evaluate and estimate relevant risk parameters in the fixed income area
Course code
0230-17-01-BB-EN-05