Banking and Finance MSc - 2026/7

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Surrey Business School is committed to developing graduates with strengths in Employability, Digital Capabilities, Global and Cultural Capabilities, Sustainability, and Resourcefulness and Resilience. This programme is designed to allow students to develop knowledge, skills, and capabilities in the following areas:

Digital capabilities: Students will gain critical insight into and appreciation of the skills that the emergent digitalised and global financial services industry requires. Students will develop understanding of the specialist financial sector activities carried out by different types of financial intermediary, such as investment banks and commercial banks, and fund managers. The programme will augment theoretical knowledge through practical application using databases and software, which will enhance students¿ quantitative skills and analytical acumen.

Employability: Students will be supported to develop a unique set and individual, interpersonal, and professional skills, which are relevant to their discipline and career ambitions. The programme will nurture and impart practical and specialist knowledge of the workings of financial institutions, financial markets, and financial regulators. Students will develop the ability to evaluate problems, devise solutions, and critically analyse solutions. These skills will equip students with all the tools needed to progress, complete their studies, and be employment ready.

Global and cultural capabilities: Financial institutions, such as banks and other types of financial intermediary, and the many financial markets operate globally either as truly international institutions and markets or as regional and/or national institutions and markets. Students will gain essential knowledge of the multitude of financial activities, which is applicable across the global financial industry conditional on some variations depending on country regulations and/or cultural differences. This essential knowledge will deepen students¿ understanding of the challenges facing financial sector actors.

Resourcefulness and Resilience: The programme will equip students with transferable skills and specialist knowledge of the operations of financial institutions and financial markets. Students will improve their understanding of bond and equity markets, portfolio and investment management, bank and risk management, the rationale for regulation, the increasing importance of digitalisation and sustainable practices as well as critical appreciation of policy choices and trade-offs facing bank and financial managers, central banks, and policymakers. In turn, this fosters development of students¿ critical acumen and analytical prowess. In addition, through independent and guided learning, students develop attributes, such as, confidence, adaptability, self-regulation, self-efficacy, problem solving and decision-making abilities.

Sustainability: The programme emphasizes the role of the banking system in allocating resources to their most productive users creating positive effects on rates of innovation and economic growth, which benefit society at large, reduce poverty, and enhance sustainability. Students will develop economic principles to identify instances of imperfect market performance and propose and/or design suitable solutions. In addition, the programme will equip students with the skills to critically evaluate public policy. In doing so, we aim to be educating future financial sector leaders of the rationale and need to incorporate sustainability goals into their own and their financial firms¿ activities.