MSc Banking and Finance

This course builds on your existing knowledge of finance, banking or business to prepare you for a challenging and rewarding career in the banking sector. You’ll explore bank efficiency, bank failures and crises, regulatory frameworks and risk. You’ll investigate the challenges of modern banking and understand how innovation in financial technology has disrupted the sector. You develop a detailed understanding of areas including:portfolio managementmodern banking methodsbank strategy and riskregulation and the internationalisation processThis course is taught at Essex Business School. Our expert team are at the forefront of financial debate and have presented their research at the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve. By embedding the latest academic and industry thinking into our teaching, you experience an education that’s at the forefront of the issues impacting today’s banking and finance sectors.Our aim is to give you the best foundation for a career in banking or elsewhere in the finance sector. We want to help you understand the theory and put it into practice.