BMM6193 - Money, Banking and Finance

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Students will learn about banks, markets and other financial institutions which support business and investor activity in the UK and in Europe. Beginning with the banking sector, students will be encouraged to understand, critically analyse and assess the operations and effectiveness of a range of financial facilities in the light of a rapidly changing regulatory environment in response to recent internal and external shock. Key to the module will be the development of a working knowledge of a range of financial instruments and ownership structures (including Private Equity, Hedge and Prime Broker Services) and the ability to choose between and select the most appropriate of these in a variety of business situations and contexts. The development and use of Fintech and Digital Solutions in Banking and Financial Markets will feature across the modules, as will the study of inclusive technological solutions to financial problems in digitally poor and excluded communities in the UK and abroad.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Students are expected to attend all taught sessions, prepare for and participate in all workshop sessions and complete independent learning – including the completion of pre-session tasks and submission of case studies, exemplar assessment questions and other opportunities for formative feedback. Blocks of content, arranged by theme, will be delivered through whole cohort teaching sessions, led by academic members of staff or speakers with specialist expertise or relevant experience. Workshops, led by students themselves, will focus on the application of theory and discussion of recent news/events/trends. Module delivery also includes 10 hours of simulations where students will be given the opportunity to apply module content in a range of practical sessions, including use of a trading floor and virtual investment advice clinic or investment game. As a module which draws heavily on current and contemporary case study material, the approach to the delivery of module content relies to a greater extent on Level 6 students taking a measure of responsibility for keeping abreast of changes in the financial and regulatory environment.

Lectures
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Workshops
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Simulations
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further Details Relating to Assessment
Formative assessment will be ongoing throughout taught sessions, with extensive use of Q&A to check for conceptual grasp as well as for misunderstandings/ mistakes. Workshop sessions, planned and led by students, will be peer assessed with moderated formative feedback on the application of theory.

Summative assessment will be negotiated and agreed with the module tutor on an individual basis and will consist of one of the following instruments:
1. A company report, based on an analysis of the interactions of one specific company with a bank or other financial institution in pursuit of company objectives
2. A fictional case study scenario which includes a critical analysis of the impact of external shock on the financial system and how well the authorities are prepared in advance to mitigate these. Work submitted may take the form of a portfolio and include several components (poster, infographic, drama, artefact).

Full details are contained within the Module Handbook.

Assessment:

001 Negotiated Assessment; 5000 word equiv; end of sem 2 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - N/A
Semester(s) Offered - 6S2

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