Quantitative Finance and Insurance

Commercial Banking: to provide the students with general understanding of banking activities, products, markets, rules and basic principles of business, planning  and risk management

Investment Banking: to provide the students with general understanding of infrastructure financing, market practices, analytical tools and basic principles of legal and regulatory framework

Private Banking: to provide the students with the basic of the private banking business dynamics and a picture of the main features of the sector and its new regulatory framework

Commercial Banking: students should acquire an understanding of the main banking activities and how they contribute to the asset-liabilities and profit and loss of the bank, together with the first elements of planning and risk management

Investment Banking: students should acquire the basic elements of infrastructural financing and related markets

Private Banking part students should acquire knowledge of the private banking business dynamics and have a clear picture of the geographic main features of the sector. The new regulatory framework and the role of the private banker will be emphasized and are required to be learned and understood.

Commercial Banking (G. Spriano)

1. The economic function and the typical activities of a Bank
2. Balance sheet and profit and loss of a Bank
3. Basic principles of banking planning and budgeting
4. Italian and European banking system: trends and shape in the recent history
5. The present regulatory framework

Investment Banking (A. Eichholzer)

1. Infrastructure Financing
2. Public Private Partnerships
3. Project Finance
4. Case Studies

Private banking (L. Martina)

1. Private Banking: Definition,   History, Ranking and Global View on Regional Markets
2. Value Proposition/Industry   Dynamics/ Introduction to Client Needs, Behaviors and preferences
3. The Role of the Private   Banker: Behavioral Finance Basics  
4. Priorities for capturing the   new generation of clients/The Advisory Processes
5. The Advisory Model
6. Main Asset Classes Basics
7. Strategy implementation, Asset Protection

The course is based on 63/72 hours, divided into 3 modules of 21/24 hours each: Commercial Banking, Investment Banking and Private Banking. Lesson frequency is recommended

Every part of the course (Commercial, Corporate, Private) will assign 10/30 of the final vote.

For students attending lessons 50%-70% of the total grade (16/30) will be attributed on the basis of group a project and the other 50%-30% through a written exam, that could include both theory and exercises.

For non attendig students there will be a written exam, that could include both theory and exercises.

The exam lasts 2 hours (one hour for attending students).

The maximum grade is 30/30 cum laude (16 points, 30 cum laude).

There are 9-15 questions (with different grades, corresponding to their difficulty).

Students can withdraw until the end of the exam.