International Banking and Business Models

  • 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.

Art der Vermittlung

Präsenzveranstaltung

Art der Veranstaltung

Pflichtfach

Empfohlene Fachliteratur

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“

Lern- und Lehrmethode

Lecture, self-study elements, blended learning with video tutorials, individual home assignments, discussions on solutions, case analysis, teacher feedback on individual home assignments.

Prüfungsmethode

Continuous assessment (30%): quality of the work assignments and tasks completed by the students, written quizzes and written final exam (70%)

Voraussetzungen laut Lehrplan

None

Schnellinfos

Studiengang

International Banking and Finance (Master)

Akademischer Grad

Master

ECTS Credits

4.00

Unterrichtssprache

Englisch

Studienplan

Berufsbegleitend

Studienjahr, in dem die Lerneinheit angeboten wird

2023

Semester in dem die Lehrveranstaltung angeboten wird

1 WS

Incoming

Ja

Lernergebnisse der Lehrveranstaltung

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

Kennzahl der Lehrveranstaltung

0230-17-01-BB-EN-05