Module FINN44115: Sustainability in Banking

Department: Finance

FINN44115: Sustainability in Banking

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• FINN43515 Banking and Financial Intermediation

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• Develop advanced knowledge and critical understanding of key concepts and modern issues in banking related to sustainability from Artificial Intelligence, climate, colonial, financial inclusion and ethical perspectives.
• To provide a thorough synthesis of the most important current research in sustainable banking, with an emphasis on the applications of the key principles.
• Develop students' ability to master the knowledge and understanding at an advanced level of the means by which new challenges to banks from the Artificial Intelligence, climate, colonial, financial inclusion and ethical perspectives can be managed.

Content

• Banking Crisis;
• Market vs Bank based structures;
• Climate Crisis;
• Artificial Intelligence and Banks;
• Financial Inclusion;
• Colonial Banking;
• Ethical Banks;
• Sustainability: A special role for banks;

Learning Outcomes

• Have advanced knowledge and critical understanding of essential components of modern sustainable banking and associated current research.
• Have explored, understood and appreciated the complexity and contradictions of the current relevant academic literature and its implications for professional practice, and be able to identify open questions for their own research.
• Advanced knowledge and critical understanding of modern issues from sustainable banking landscape.

• Have the ability to learn and work independently, exercise critical judgement and discrimination in assessing complex situations.
• Be able to use highly specialised, professional and academic skills in the analysis of relevant specific problems in sustainable banking.
• Be able to apply problem solving and analytical skills to issues in sustainable banking in a complex context.
• Be able to holistically understand sustainability in banks from the aspects of Artificial Intelligence, climate, colonial, financial inclusion and ethical perspectives.

• Interpersonal and written communication.
• Planning, organisation and time management.
• Problem solving and analysis.
• Using initiative.
• Computer Literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Teaching is by a combination of workshop sessions and guided reading to achieve the aims and learning outcome of the module. Teaching will utilise a flipped classroom approach. Learning takes place through attendance at workshops, preparation for and participation in group activities in the workshops and private study through provided material (e.g. reading, recorded videos).
• Regular group assessments in workshops will guide students in the development of their knowledge and skills. They also support students' continuous engagement in learning throughout the module.
• The summative assignment is by means of an individual coursework on sustainability in banks. The summative assignment will test students' knowledge and critical understanding of the material covered in the module, their analytical and problem-solving skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Group work presentations during workshops. Verbal formative feedback will be given to students as a group. Answers to questions will be posted on Learn Ultra.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University