FINC 603
Commercial Banking
Course overview
This course provides a study of the practical and analytical aspects of commercial banking within the wider financial markets context, including how commercial banks manage risk.
Course information
Available semesters | Semester 1 2025 |
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Credits | 20 |
Domestic fees | $1,466.00 |
What you will learn
After successfully completing this course, you¡¯ll be able to:
- Demonstrate a systemic understanding of how the financial services industry works.
- Define what a bank is, and how banks operate differently from other financial institutions.
- Explain how banks get their funds and what they do with them.
- Understand the need for good governance and commercial bank regulation.
- Describe the structure, performance and required conduct for banks.
- Identify the features of banks as financial intermediaries, their unique characteristics as businesses operating in our economies, and how they add value.
- Identify and explain the sources of risk in banking, and how these risks combine and interact to determine the overall risk that banks face in today¡¯s financial, economic and regulatory environment.
- Participate knowledgeably in discussions regarding the economic environment and the impact this has on banks.
Course examiners
Professor Christopher Gan
Head of Department
Department of Financial and Business Systems
christopher.gan@lincoln.ac.nz