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FIN-40045 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 19 September 2024

FIN-40045 - Financial Ethics and Regulations
Coordinator: Ghulam Sorwar
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
This module introduces students to financial services regulations and consumer policy initiatives within the context of recent market developments. It examines the current debate on ethics in the banking and the wider financial sector.

Intended Learning Outcomes

outline the key role played by ethics in setting professional standards and ensuring trust within the financial services sector: 1,2
critically assess the global investment standards and the fundamentals of compliance within the financial services sector: 1,2
assess the important role played by legislation and regulation in ensuring trust in the financial services sector and analyse the consequences when trust and regulations break down: 1,2
critically assess theories that are used to resolve complex financial sector dilemmas and the alternative views that may result as a consequence of different theories: 1,2
discuss the importance of corporate governance in the financial sector in ensuring trust and avoiding future market failure: 1,2

Study hours

20 hours lectures
4 hours tutorials
126 hours independent study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 40%
Group-based Assignment 2000 words (+/- 10%)
Assessment 1 is a group-based Assignment of 2000 words (+/- 10%). Each group has a diverse combination of 3- 5 students representing different gender, nationality, educational background, work experience, etc. This group-based assignment allows the participants to work together as a team and to equally share the responsibility of conducting the required work, any academic misconduct problem and final mark.

2: Open Book Examination weighted 60%
2 hour UNSEEN EXAM
2 hour unseen exam. Question paper will comprise of six questions from which students have to answer 4. The time available to complete this assessment is 28 hours but you would normally not be expected to invest more than 2 hours of active-working time on this assessment.

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Last Updated: 19 September 2024