Course Topics
Single Rule book and Banking Union Banking Activity and management, controls and supervision Supervision of intermediaries, financial services and activities, collective management of savings, trading venues, insider trading and market manipulation, prospectuses for public offerings and admission to trading

Teaching format
Frontal didactic

Educational objectives
ILO (Intended Learning Outcomes) ILO 1 – Knowledge and Understanding: ILO 1.1 of the principles of banking and financial law that affect the management of financial institutions and financial investments ILO 2 – Applying Knowledge and Understanding: ILO 2.1 to engage and interact critically and competently with professionals in corporate and tax law ILO 3 – Making Judgments: ILO 3.1 ability to apply the acquired knowledge to make strategic and operational decisions and to solve administration and finance problems in companies, intermediaries, and financial markets, while jointly considering multiple perspectives of analysis, from economic to legal, financial, strategic, and managerial ILO 4 – Communication Skills: ILO 4 Ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, the specialized content of individual disciplines, using different registers depending on the audience and the communicative and educational purposes, and to assess the educational impact of one’s communication ILO 5 – Learning Skills: ILO 5.1 ability to identify thematic connections and establish relationships between different cases and contexts of analysis ILO 5.2 ability to frame a new problem systematically and generate appropriate taxonomies ILO 5.3 ability to develop general models based on the phenomena studied

Additional educational objectives and learning outcomes
The course refers to the typical educational activities and belongs to the scientific area of Law. The specific objective of the course is the acquisition of knowledge and competences in financial law with particular reference to the intermediation in the banking industry and in financial markets. The professional competences of the course are integrated with the curriculum of the Master in Accounting and Finance. The focus of the course is on the organization of the financial and banking markets from a legal perspective which will provide the students with an understanding of the professional competences necessary for their professional career.

Assessment
For attending and non attending students: the exam is written; students must respond to 3 out of 4 questions (ILO assessed 1-5)

Evaluation criteria
The answer is evaluated in relation to the pertinence to the topic/question, its correctness, to the argumentative ability and to the ability to summarize as well as quality of language.