Banking and Financial Markets

Description

This course consists of two educational activities: D0E24a Bank- en financiewezen and D0N05a Bank- en financiewezen: werkcollege. Upon completing 'D0E24a Bank- en financiewezen’", the student can Part 1 critically evaluate each interest rate product design new interest rate products himself model problems that can be solved with the techniques of interest charge Part 2 make a first analysis of the financial states of a bank and draw conclusions on the state of the institution indicate the most important classes of banking risks argue substantially on the issue of balance between return and risk in a bank perform simple simulations of the impact of choices in banking policy on balance and income and formulate an optimal choice comment on and assess substantially the impact of shocks in the financial system on the profitability of a bank estimate the interest rate risk on the basis of duration and control understand the logic of the supervision and standards imposed on banks around the world describe the Belgian supervisory framework in general terms give an overview of the role of the various types of financial institutions and their main functions Part 3 provide an overview of the role of the major financial markets and the main products that are traded decompose financial products into their constituent elements and construct financial products through principles of financial engineering substantially comment and evaluate articles from the financial coverage of topics covered in this course Upon completion of D0N05a Bank- en financiewezen: werkcollege’: the student can realise the general objectives of the lecture using exercises and additional guidance apply the theoretical concepts from the lectures in solving realistic cases and issues of banking and finance