BSc (Hons) Banking and Finance Bachelor's degree at East London

Prepare yourself for the professional world by building key career skills that employers value. You'll explore career pathways, practise job application essentials, create a professional LinkedIn profile, and develop networking confidence through workshops and real-world activities.

Strengthen your academic and professional skills while gaining a clear understanding of what university study demands. You'll work through real-world scenarios to build essential abilities in time management, research, digital literacy, and academic communication.

Confidence with numbers is vital in today's professional world. This module builds your skills in interpreting data, solving practical problems, and using digital tools for analysis and visualisation.

Communication is a key driver of business success. You'll learn to adapt your speaking and writing styles to different audiences, develop persuasive techniques, and refine your digital communication skills.

Understanding how businesses succeed requires a broad grasp of core functions like marketing, HR, finance, and operations. In this module, you'll explore how businesses operate within a competitive environment, how they innovate, and how they respond to external pressures.

The module will equip you to succeed in both your studies and subsequent career. This includes the development of individual non-cognitive intelligence; digital proficiency; and cultural intelligence.

This module will introduce you to a variety of work organisations. You will also understand and explore the psychological, sociological and economic explanations of human behaviour in organisations.

This module will develop and prepare you for entry into the professional workplace or further studies in accounting and finance. As part of this module, you will learn and develop a sound basis of theory and principles, accounting techniques and skills necessary as a foundation for further study and practical experience in accounting.

This module will provide you with knowledge of the constitution and forms of business entities. You will understand the relevant principles of UK law and the legislation governing the formation, structure, and operation of a business and its obligations.

The module aims to enable you to develop an understanding of the basic economic concepts, theories, ideas and tools and their real-world application.

The module aims to deepen your knowledge of relevant mathematical concepts and statistics used in the business world.

This module will provide you with the opportunity to document the development of core employability skills and allow you to acquire tangible evidence to support your employability narrative at interviews.

The module aims to provide a good understanding of the theoretical foundations of econometrics, and to equip you with the statistical tools to analyse empirical data.

This module is intended to introduce you to the ideas and techniques of running a financially successful business. You appreciate and learn that in order to grow and expand, businesses must both find profitable investments and obtain funds to make those investments.

This module considers the main theoretical and applied aspects of the finance discipline. The main aim is to deepen your understanding of the workings of national and international capital markets and the interaction between such markets and economic units, such as households, firms, and financial institutions.

This module examines the legal issues created by the international operations of large commercial banks, merchant banks and investment banks. Although based primarily on a discussion and analysis of current London City Practices, reference to other relevant laws are examined.

Financial Markets and Institutions: The course aims to provide students with a combination of theoretical background and practical insight into some of the main strategic issues faced by modern financial institutions. The module provides a good grasp of both the basics of the central bank and selected aspects of the applied economics of the modern financial institution.

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you'll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

This module will develop core employability skills and allow you to develop and demonstrate skills in (i) the analysis of a problem (ii) planning and organising a task, including time management (iii) exercising judgement in the light of observed and published data (iv) compiling a report, (v) teamwork and collaboration and (vi) use of appropriate technologies.

The module aims to develop a critical appreciation of the key principles of business ethics, corporate responsibility/citizenship and sustainability, and the relation of these to the workplace. It will encourage you to critique theories of management and leadership from the perspective of ethics.

This module explores how financial derivatives have grown in popularity, offering both institutions and individual investors ways to manage risks and tailor their risk exposure to their preferences. It covers the main types of financial derivatives, such as forwards, futures, options, and swaps, and teaches how these instruments can be used to manage risks arising from pricing, sourcing, financing, and operational decisions, as well as introducing pricing frameworks and derivative-pricing techni

The aims of this module are: To provide an extensive, detailed and critical knowledge and understanding of risk management in the banking industry and banking regulations. To develop the practitioner's skills and ability to synthesise complex issues, evaluate information, apply principles and techniques, and make professional judgements to arrive at informed decisions in relevant work situations. The module mainly concentrates on the fundamental concepts and issues in identifying, measuring and

The module will deepen your understanding of key innovations in the financial sector; the stakeholders, trends, regulations, business models and disruptive technologies shaping the finance industry. In this module, you will learn about the world of FinTech and the opportunities and challenges it is bringing around the world.

This module provides students with a valuable understanding of the digital and open banking landscape along with providing the practical and research skills necessary to prepare reports and analyse banking performance in this new challenging ecosystem. Drawing on practical examples and theories, this module grants the students to develop key management skills and tools to further contribute to the industry.