• Introduction to Management
• Team-building and personal development
• Information systems
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Marketing Principles
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate and Investment Banking
• Organizational Behaviour & Design
• Statistical Concepts for Business and Management
• Innovation Management

Corporate and Investment Banking

Course coordinator: prof. Paola Ferretti

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Introduction to Basel 2; understanding the credit risk rating systems used by the banking industry and the main purposes referred to the use of these tools (monitoring of credit quality; pricing of loans); understanding the financing forms available for businesses.

OBJECTIVES:

• Skills:
  - Develop capabilities about financial issues
  - Sharpen critical thinking
  

• Knowledge:
  - Understand how banks assess their borrowers’ credit risk and the impact of the credit risk rating systems on the relationship with firms
  - Understand the opportunities for businesses to manage their financial requirements
  

• Attitudes:
  - Acquisition of capabilities to manage the relationship with the financial institutions

MAIN CONTENTS:

1. Basel 2, banks and firms relationship
   
   1. Internal risk rating systems
   2. Pricing of loans
   3. Credit risk mitigation techniques
2. Forms of financing for businesses
   
   1. Corporate and investment banking
   2. The role of the financial market (institutional investors)

• Pratical exercises
• Case studies