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Core Module Information
Module title: Financial Markets, Institutions and Banking
SCQF level: 11:
SCQF credit value: 20.00
ECTS credit value: 10
Module code: FIN11128
Module leader: Henry Huang
School The Business School
Subject area group: Accounting and Finance
Prerequisites

N/A
Description of module content:

Financial system: functions, structure, intermediaries and globalisation
Interest rates: theory, determinants of supply and demand, equilibrium rates, policies
Financial markets: money, bond, equity and derivative markets, integration, infrastructures
Financial Institutions: insurance, savings, investment, asymmetric information, moral hazard interest
Modern Banks: organisational structure, activities, risks, regulation, failures, competitive issues
Learning Outcomes for module:

LO1: Critically discuss the roles and functions of organised financial markets and financial intermediaries
LO2: Evaluate the implications regulation and government intervention in financial markets
LO3: Compare and critically discuss the major theories of determining the general level of interest rate
LO4: Critically discuss the reasons for diversification in the financial institutions industry and evaluate different banking structures
LO5: Critically assess the main approaches to the management of risk by banks and other financial institutions, and the necessity for regulation of the financial systems.
LO6: Evaluate the processes of innovation and globalisation in the financial system and critically discuss their implications to the banking industry.
Full Details of Teaching and Assessment
2023/4, Trimester 1, FACE-TO-FACE, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence: 001
Primary mode of delivery: FACE-TO-FACE
Location of delivery: CRAIGLOCKHAR
Partner: Edinburgh Napier University
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: Henry Huang
Module Organiser:


Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activityLearning & Teaching ActivityNESH (Study Hours)
Face To Face Lecture 12
Face To Face Practical classes and workshops 12
Independent Learning Guided independent study 13
Independent Learning Guided independent study 160
Face To Face CL_TST 3
Total Study Hours200
Expected Total Study Hours for Module200


Assessment
Type of Assessment Weighting % LOs covered Week due Length in Hours/Words
Essay 50 1 - 6 9 HOURS= 00.00, WORDS= 2500
Centrally Time Tabled Examination 50 1 - 6 14/15 HOURS= 03.00, WORDS= 0
Component 1 subtotal: 50
Component 2 subtotal: 50
Module subtotal: 100

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