 | | FINA 482 | International Banking: Operations, Policy, Strategy | Credits: | 3.0 | Department: | Finance | Program: | Undergraduate |
This course provides students with an integrating framework to understand the risks, challenges and opportunities that banks face in their global operations. The course covers both commercial and investment banking activities in mature as well as emerging markets. The course begins with an examination of opportunities that foreign markets offer as well as difficulties that banks face when dealing with unfamiliar economic and political environments abroad. This is followed by a discussion of banking operations in international and foreign markets. Topics for this discussion may include microfinance, international loans, project financing and an assessment of political or sovereign risks. The impact of foreign operations on mitigation or enhancement of various risks associated with home country operations is examined. The course also examines the importance of global regulation as well as governance and ethical issues associated with international banking.
Prerequisite: FINA 481 previously or concurrently.
This course is offered for Finance majors and minors only.
Students who have received credit for FINA 382 or IBUS 382, or for this topic under a FINA 455 or IBUS 471 number, may not take this course for credit.
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