OVERVIEW

The course aims at providing students with adequate instruments to understand and critically analyze the financial sector from the legal point of view. We will examine prudential regulation, conduct of business rules and the main contracts, taking into account recent developments and scientific debates within the sector, both nationally and internationally, and using seminars to analyze the most interesting and relevant to banking law cases, while developing research and critical analysis skills. 

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Knowledge and understanding: the students will acquire adequate knowledge and understanding of the main concepts and rules in the area of banking law, capital markets and competition (with particular regard to TUB, TUF and EU law) (advanced alphabetic-functional competence)
• Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. The students will be able to apply the knowledge to practical cases, conduct research and understand and solve technical issues emerging in practice in deploying technology to the financial sector
• Critical and autonomous thinking. The students will develop the ability to use and apply their knowledge from a theoretical and practical point of view in different contexts, with autonomous critical thinking (advanced personal compentence)
• Communication skills. The students will acquire the ability to use the technical language used by lawyers and by the financial sector to communicate with professionals, experts but also the general public; thanks to the participation to the seminars and work groups, students will develop soft skills (presentation, communication, team work: advanced social competence; creative competence)
• Learning skills. The students will develop learning skills which will allow them to keep deepen independently new issues and future applications in the area of financial markets and to adequately deal with the challenges that might emerge in their future working context (advanced learn how to learn competence).

TEACHING METHODS

Lessons (with active participation of students; instant pools, case-based learning) and seminars (with presentations by students; project-based and case-based teaching; team based learning, debate, etc.). 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will be complemented by seminars prepared by group of students (on a voluntary basis, obtaining additional points) addressing practical cases or certain topics deserving special attention to better understand banking regulation, such as: microcredit, peer-to-peer lending and investment-based crowdfunding, virtual currencies, crypto-assets and stablecoin, online banking, fintech banks, Antonveneta, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Carige, Fortis-Dexia, 'four banks' cases, islamic finance, Brexit, Big tech, Amazon lending, Gamestop, Wirecard, etc..

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Please see the course's page on Aulaweb for updated information.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

EUGENIA MACCHIAVELLO (President)

MATTEO GARGANTINI

CHRISTIAN MEZZANO (Substitute)

LUISA NENCI (Substitute)

CHIARA VALENTI (Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule