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Corporate Banking Technology

Course (UG/PG)

Undergraduate

Offering Unit/Department

Course Description

This course explores the corporate and institutional banking functional domain and technology, as well as the emerging non-bank FinTech alternatives. This course module begins by reviewing banking solution delivery processes and identifying the various corporate banking customer segments and their needs. These considerations are then examined in different corporate banking business contexts. In the context of corporate customer needs, the traditional product areas of corporate lending, cash management & payments, trade finance, and corporate treasury are covered. In the later part of the course, we cover institutional banking customers and products, and their role in the credit crisis of 2008 to understand what happened and the implications going forward. Finally, we will cover cybersecurity, operational and compliance risk. Emphasis is placed throughout the course on analysing real-world situations using case studies and gaining hands-on experience with banking systems.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Compare the financial services needs of corporate and retail customers.

2. Understand solution considerations specific to corporate banking.

3. Be able to identify, compare and contrast alternative solution approaches.

4. Evaluate solution architectures across the dimensions most relevant to the business context.

5. Map solution building blocks to banking problems and processes.

6. Relate solution implementations to abstract reference architectures.

7. Gain a depth of understanding on corporate banking core products and services for corporate lending,

8. Explain the risks and advantages of cash management,

9. Trace out the workflows and documents needed for trade finance and supply chain financing

10. Compare money market products

11. Describe and calculate foreign currency exchange products.

12. Describe the role of large financial institutions and central banks and their potential harmful impact on global financial systems.

Discipline-Specific Competencies

Business Innovation, Business Requirements Mapping, Business Risk Management, User Interface Design, Research

SMU Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Knowledge, Multidisciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Innovation and enterprising skills, Collaboration and leadership, Communication, Self-directed learning

Grading Basis

GRD - Graded