FIN807 Money and Financial Markets B

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Department of Finance and Accounting – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
The objective of this course is to provide the student with a understanding how financial institutions and financial instruments develop as solutions to problems and as responses to profit opportunities. This course follows the basic course Money and Financial Markets.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Struktura výkladu:
    1. Financial Institutions
    2. Financial Innovation
    3. Commercial Banks
    4. Insurance Companies
    5. Organization and Structure of Markets
    6. Treasury and Agency Securities Markets
    7. Markets for Corporate Securities
    8. Markets for Bank Instruments
    Obsah kurzu:
    1. Financial Institutions
    Role of financial intermediaries. Maturity intermediation, reducing risk via diversifikation, reducing transaction costs, providing a payments mechanism.
    2. Financial Innovation
    Categorizations of financial innovation. Motivation for financial innovation.
    3. Commercial Banks
    Bank services, funding, regulation.
    4. Insurance Companies
    Life insurance companies, nature of business, investments, regulations. Property and casualty insurance companies, nature of business, investments, regulations. Financial trends in the international insurance industry.
    5. Organization and Structure of Markets
    Primary markets and the underwriting of securities. Functions of secondary markets.
    6. Treasury and Agency Securities Markets
    Treasury securities. Federal agency securities. Municipal securities, types and features.
    7. Markets for Corporate Securities
    Common stock markets, stock exchanges and over-the-counter market. Markets for corporate senior instruments, commercial papers, corporate bonds.
    8. Markets for Bank Instruments
    Bank obligations. Bankers acceptances. The mortgage market, development of the secondary mortgage market, mortgage pass-through securities.

Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 1990, Summer 1991, Winter 1991, Summer 1992, Winter 1992, Summer 1993, Winter 1993, Summer 1994, Winter 1994, Summer 1995, Winter 1995, Summer 1996, Winter 1996, Summer 1997, Winter 1997, Summer 1998, Winter 1998, Summer 1999, Winter 1999, Summer 2000, Winter 2000, Summer 2001, Winter 2001, Summer 2002, Winter 2002, Summer 2003, Winter 2003, Summer 2004, Winter 2004, Summer 2005, Winter 2005, Summer 2006, Winter 2006, Summer 2007, Summer 2008.
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