About the course

The banking and finance industry has become a major end-user and even a major driver of technological innovation, such as machine learning, big data analysis and algorithm trading. This course uniquely combines theory and applications of finance, economics, quantitative methods, and big data analysis to allow you to increase your career opportunities in this fast paced field.

Based near the heart of the UK’s financial centre, our MSc Banking and Finance degree provides the foundations for a career in financial services and the banking industry.

This course emphasises prominent contemporary issues for the sector such as financial regulation, risk management, corporate finance, banking institutions, equity analysis and securities markets. It covers all aspects of the industry from macroeconomic and corporate to computational and quantitative.

We’ll also teach you advanced skills in financial modelling, econometrics, equity analysis and quantitative risk management that will leave you in an excellent position when entering the industry.

What you will gain

By the time you graduate from this course, you will have developed a thorough theoretical and practical understanding of:

• Banking theory and regulation and compliance of financial institutions
• Financial assets, such as equities, fixed-income securities and derivatives
• Financial engineering and other quantitative techniques to evaluate financial instruments
• Financial databases such as Bloomberg, Datastream, Eikon and Thomson Reuters
• Equity analysis and investing in financial markets.