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MSc/PgDip/PgCert
International Finance and Information Management

Location
Southwark

Duration
1 year plus dissertation (full-time)
2 years plus dissertation (part-time)

Start date
September

Number of places
25

How to apply
Direct to LSBU

LSBU code
Full-time: 3353
Part-time: 3352

Course contact
David Oakes
oakesd@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 7786

Course units

Core

– Financial Management of International Business

– International Financial Markets and Institutions

– Financial and Accounting Information Systems

– Management Information for Systems Professionals

– Web Technologies

– Strategic Management of Information Systems

– Elective Unit

– Research Methods

– Dissertation

Options

– International Banking

– Bank Lending and Credit Risk

– Bank Value and Performance

– Advanced Investment Analysis

– International Bond and Fixed Interest Markets

– Institutional Fund Management

– Treasury Management

– Financial Derivatives

– Current Issues in International Corporate

Finance

– Corporate Governance Theories and Issues Please note that access to some of the elective units will be restricted to students with an appropriate first degree or relevant work experience.

Course description

The MSc in International Finance and Information Management is oriented to both specialist and non-specialist graduates, and other suitable applicants,engaged in, or intending to pursue, a career within the international financial services sector.

Students will learn about international financial markets and institutions, together with the information management systems which support and enhance them in order to achieve the technological, analytical and managerial skills required for the development of the ‘hybrid finance and systems manager’.

Career opportunities

Graduates from this programme are expected to obtain positions in major international companies, financial institutions, and financial consultant firms in the UK and overseas.

Recent guest lecturers and events

– Dr Adrian Durrant, from ‘e-hedge’, Hedge Funds: What They Do and Their Participation in the Current Credit Crisis

– Professor Robin Jarvis – Financing Small Business

– Visitors from Landsbanki – Iceland Banking

– Visit to HSBC HQ, Canary Wharf

– Visit to State Street Bank