BU59FE: Financial and Banking Regulations

BU59FE: FINANCIAL AND BANKING REGULATIONS (2025-2026)

Last modified: 16 Oct 2025 14:16

Course Overview

The course teaches you the different regulations in the financial system. We first go into detail on the main current banking standards: the Basel standards. Within the standards, we will look at credit, market and operational risks measures. We shall see how they impact the commercial or risk policy of a bank, alongside its impact on the day-to-day work of front officers, such as the loan officer. We then consider the financial market to understand the main regulation: MIFID.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	Third Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Semih Kerestecioglu

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

The overall learning aim (goal) of this course is to teach you the different regulations that exist within the financial system.

The specific learning objectives of the course are:

To provide you with knowledge about the different existing regulations in market and banking;
To understand the impact of each regulation on banking activities;
To know the deployment schedule of each regulation programme;
To gain understanding on the financial crisis and its implication in terms of regulation;
To understand the need of banking and market regulations.

By the end of this course, you will:

Understand why regulation is important (or not) in the financial industry.
Be able to explain each regulation and its main pillars.
Be able to make the link between the 2008 financial crisis and its implications in terms of regulation.
Be able to use systemic risk instruments.
Be able to understand how regulations affect the daily work of an employee in a financial institution.
Be able to understand simple regulation tools.

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	40
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Analyse	Be able to use systemic risk instruments
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to understand simple regulation tools

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	30
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count	1000

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Apply	Be able to explain each regulation and its main pillars
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to make the link between the 2008 financial crisis and its implications in terms of regulation
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to understand how regulations affect the daily work of an employee in a financial institution
Conceptual	Understand	Understand why regulation is important (or not) in the financial industry

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	30
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count	1000

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Apply	Be able to explain each regulation and its main pillars
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to make the link between the 2008 financial crisis and its implications in terms of regulation
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to understand how regulations affect the daily work of an employee in a financial institution
Conceptual	Understand	Understand why regulation is important (or not) in the financial industry

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count	2500

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Understand	Understand why regulation is important (or not) in the financial industry
Conceptual	Apply	Be able to explain each regulation and its main pillars
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to make the link between the 2008 financial crisis and its implications in terms of regulation
Conceptual	Analyse	Be able to use systemic risk instruments
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to understand how regulations affect the daily work of an employee in a financial institution
Conceptual	Understand	Be able to understand simple regulation tools

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