Objectives

The Master in Quantitative Finance and Banking program responds to the demands of modern finance, in which quantitative methods are needed to perform analysis that facilitates founded financial decisions making which are complex and multidisciplinary.

The main Program goal is to train experts capable of performing tasks of assessment, management and consultancy in the field of finance. Specifically:

• Develop their activity making extensive use of advanced quantitative and computer techniques that enable optimal complex decisions making.
• Know the operation of the financial system, the different alternatives for resource allocation, asset valuation and risk management and its articulation in the overall context of the economy. Particularly, should be able to identify and anticipate relevant economic and financial problems in any situation, discuss the alternatives that facilitate their resolution, select the most suited to the objectives and evaluate the results they produce.
• access to PhD studies

Skills

In general, can we speak of two types of postgraduate programs in Finance, depending on whether a general education curriculum, with emphasis on the study of financial products and markets as well as general concepts of portfolio management, or program with emphasis on quantitative and computational aspects, leading to a knowledge of valuation techniques and modeling and simulation and numerical computation quite sophisticated. These two types of programs are very different. Our proposed Master in Banking and Finance Quantitative refers to the second type, and unfold requires very close to the latest developments at the level of academic research, which are demanded by financial companies with which contact is maintained from the beginning. Increasingly, these institutions carry out their risk management departments, modeling, model validation and valuation analysis that may be, both subject matter and methodology of research in academic institutions. Therefore, the direction of the proposed research program is clearly.

General Skills

• apply the acquired knowledge and be able to solve problems in new or unfamiliar contexts related in Finance and Banking environments;
• integrate knowledge, handle complexity, and formulate judgments based on information that was incomplete or limited, include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments;
• can communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialists in a clear and unambiguous manner;
• possess the learning skills to allow them to continue studying in a way that will have to be self-directed or autonomous.

Specific Skills

• Having the conceptual and precise techniques to evaluate and develop the financial and risk management that is performed in banking and financial services organizations.
• Learn to identify and represent financial phenomena with quantitative techniques.
• use the main useful applications to solve econometric and financial models
• Deeper understanding of the main theoretical aspects and economic fundamentals of financial phenomenain both environment of risk and uncertainty.
• Know and apply systems of identification and measurement of specific financial services banking risks.