This course focuses on the ethical issues confronting financial professionals, including extensive coverage of the recent financial crisis and the latest developments affecting ethics within the financial world. Instruction includes an overview of the ethical standards in Finance, including the primary elements necessary to make proper ethical decisions. The course also covers key definitions, issues, and general theories of business and finance ethics, citing examples from the recent scandals that have shaken public confidence in Wall Street and the world financial markets.

The Financial Decision Making course aims to provide students with a set of accounting and financial tools that enables them to interpret and critique financial information from a variety of sources and to make informed and effective financial decisions that directly impact company operations.

This course is intended for students who would like to learn more on financial derivatives modelling and pricing. After introducing fundamental concepts of mathematical finance including no-arbitrage, portfolio replication and risk-neutral measure, we will present the main models that can be used for pricing and hedging European options e.g. Black-Scholes model, stochastic and jump-diffusion models, and highlight their assumptions and limitations. We will cover several types of derivatives such as European and American options, Barrier options and Variance-Swaps.

Equity and credit analysts, but also corporate managers, need to understand how financial statements provide information regarding corporations. This course examines the principles of financial statement analysis (reported using both IFRS and US GAAP). It provides participants with a framework to understand how value that businesses generate are captured in financial statements.

The course mainly involves three categories of materials. The first one is Financial policy related to supply and demand theory of money. The second category is the macro theory of financial crisis and crisis management. The last one is how to analyze the inflation in the economy and the corresponding monetary policy that deals with the financial crisis.

The course introduces the emerging Financial Technology (FinTech), which mainly focuses on the discussion about how FinTech could supplement the capital market through the perspective of international FinTech enterprises. Students would be exposed to start-up ideas and ventures, technical concepts, and real-world case studies of technology applications in multiple areas of the financial services industry.

FinTech Business Models and Regulations is studied from two perspectives, a business perspective and a regulatory perspective. The business perspective is focusing on financial inclusion, transformation of a financial institution, cryptocurrency, and RegTech. Financial inclusion is one of the main purposes that financial authorities made efforts on FinTech to cover those were underbanked or unbanked. This course also aims to see how financial institution is transforming their business models and adopt FinTech.

This course is designed for master students to attain training by multiple renowned FinTech firms, such as Ant Financial, provide students with outstanding internship opportunities and platforms for research in FinTech. Students would not only benefit from this practical course but also have opportunities for career development in China and abroad after graduation.

The course introduces how Financial Technology (FinTech) develops both regionally and globally, followed by a series of guest lectures contributed by related experts from international organizations, development banks, think tanks, and international FinTech enterprises with the purpose of understanding global trends through a set of perspectives. The course aims to understand how international organization adopts the idea of financial technology to promote financial inclusion. Also, how investment banks improve infrastructure to further develop financial technologies in a certain country.

This course examines fixed-income securities and markets, with an emphasis on the pricing and risk of fixed income securities and portfolios. The objective of this course is to help students develop the analytical skills for properly valuing fixed income securities and managing interest rate and credit risk. Lectures are the main format to present the concepts, but group discussions or presentations are also important to clarify misconceptions and explore certain topics in more detail.