Modiwl ETB-3525:
Bank Management
Bank Management 2024-25
ETB-3525
2024-25
Bangor Business School
Module - Semester 1 & 2
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Bruce Vanstone
Overview
The content may include but will not be limited to the following topics.
- Introduction to the banking firm
- Business models and forces of change
- The regulation of banks and bank capital regulatory requirements
- Analysing bank performance
- Business and consumer lending
- Diversification and managing non-interest income and non-interest expense
- Managing value at risk
- Asset Liabilities Management (ALM)
- Essentials of credit risk analysis
- Credit risk management
- Liquidity management
- Capital theory
- Capital management
- Managing the investment portfolio
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse bank performance and evaluate the contribution of interest and non-interest activities to profit.
- Appraise the main theoretical and practical issues concerning banking business.
- Develop a critical understanding of the forces that are shaping management strategies in banks.
- Discuss the main theories and practices underlying modern bank capital management.
- Evaluate the asset-liability management (ALM) process in modern banking firms.
- Evaluate the market forces, competitive conditions and regulatory requirements that are shaping bank business models as well as the banking and wider financial industry.
- Evaluate the processes and techniques in credit risk and liquidity management methods that banking firms use.
- Understand how to measure, manage and maximise the bank’s value.
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Examination (Semester 1)
Weighting
30%
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Examination (Semester 2)
Weighting
30%
Assessment type
Summative
Description
S1 Group Assignment
Weighting
20%
Assessment type
Summative
Description
S2 Assignment
Weighting
20%