BE634-6-SP-CO:
Corporate and Investment Banking Services
2023/24
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
15
13 February 2024
Requisites for this module
BE311
BE631
(none)
(none)
(none)
Corporate and Investment banking includes a heterogeneous set of activities. This module aims at analysing the major corporate and investment banking services, related to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets services (as private equity, venture capital, structure financial products and initial public offerings) and credit market services (as securitization and non-performing loans management).
The aims of this module are:
- The ability of offering corporate and investment banking services (from the bank standpoint).
- Key analytical skills for making corporate financial decision in practice (from the firm standpoint).
- An understanding of the main investment and corporate banking services.
- An awareness of the critical issues in M and As and complex financial products
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Have a general overview about main investment and corporate banking techniques.
- Be able to accurately evaluate listed and non-listed companies.
- Have a sound understanding of investment banking services related to M&A.
- Understand the main investment services related to capital markets, as private equity, venture capital, structure financial products and initial public offerings.
- Comprehend complex financial products (structured finance) and deals (as securitization and credit derivatives).
- Be familiar with the evaluation and management of non-performing loans.
Skills for Your Professional Life (Transferable Skills)
This module is geared towards building up or enhancing the following transferable skills:
- Improve your research skills through the use Google Scholar search platform.
- Develop your critical thinking through the use of recent article journals.
- Enhance your written communication skills through writing an assignment.
Syllabus
- Corporate and Investment banking: business models and services.
- Leverage buyout and Corporate restructuring.
- Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Mergers and Acquisitions.
- Private equity and venture capital.
- Equity Offerings and Initial Public Offerings.
- Corporate bonds, Structured Financial Products and Debt offering.
- Securitization and credit derivatives.
- Non-performing loans evaluation and management.
- Non-performing loans evaluation and management.
This module will be delivered via:
- One 2-hour lecture per week.
- One 1-hour seminar per week.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Coursework weighting |
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Assignment |
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| Exam |
Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Sotirios Kokas, email: skokas@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Sotirios Kokas and Dr Nick Rowe
ebsugcol@essex.ac.uk
Yes
No
No
Dr Hf Guo
University of Durham
Assistant Professor in Finance
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