MSc Banking and International Finance

Program Overview

The course explores the changing environment within which financial institutions operate, the globalization of finance, changes in technology, and the regulatory environment. You will also gain an appreciation of the evolution of finance and banking theory, as well as contemporary debates and controversies.

• Duration: 12 months
• Campus: Paris
• Language: English
• Mode: Full-time
• Tuition Fees: 18000€
• Application Fees: 100€
• Intake: September 2023
• Deadline: 15 July 2023

Strengths

The MSc Banking and International Finance will prepare you for a wide range of careers in finance, designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to help you to understand complex financial issues and develop practical solutions.

• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation level 1 & 2
• Financial Markets virtual room with Refinitiv (Reuters)
• Professional training and advice from highly skilled educators who are both academic researchers and active professionals in the financial industry.
• Professional international networking through educators, TBS’s corporate partnerships, and our global alumni network.

This program has received the CGE quality label, a national accreditation reserved for top business schools in France. The CGE label guarantees the high quality standards of the program and allows international students to continue to work on French territory after their studies to further fine-tune their expertise.

Calendar

Program Design

Total number of hours: 450h

This program consists of five learning experiences rigorously designed to develop your managerial and operational skills in your field of professional expertise.

Professional expertise

8 Course units:

1. Advances Corporate Finance
   Objective: Provide students with the theoretical background to understand how to value assets and finance
   a firm under market imperfections.

1. Financial analysis, firm value and value creation
   Objective: Provide students with the key competencies to conduct a financial analysis, value a company in
   different circumstances and measure the value created by managers

1. Financial strategies for investing and investing
   Objective: Be able to define, implement and finance a strategy for managing profitable growth.

1. Banking management and the regulatory landscape
   Objective: Students should be able to understand the Banks’ business models under international
   regulations, compliance requirements and in an ethical way.

1. Financial Markets
   Objective: Students should be able to understand the use of financial markets for investing and financing
   decisions.

1. Financial Risk Management
   Objective: Provide students with the knowledge and competencies to define and implement a relevant
   strategy to manage speculative risks.

1. International perspective in banking and finance
   Objective: Provide students with the required knowledge to be able to anticipate the future changes in
   Banking and Finance industry.

1. Research methods in finance
   Objective: Provide students with the set of tools to manage a research project in Finance.

Soft Skills Certificate

Certificate designed by 26 professors & leadership and management professionals in collaboration with TBS Career Starter.
“Soft Skills” are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that create the conditions for a successful and sustainable team and allow to effectively manage your career.

2 Courses units:

Management and leadership skills

Objective: Acquire nine key competencies to lead teams and manage your professional career.

Career agility Objective: Reveal your talent and make evolutionary choices in accordance with your deep aspirations.

The Career Starter is a support center that helps students define and develop their career project. Through several lectures, workshops, individual tests and coaching sessions, a specialist will support each student from their first questions to looking for the right internship or job.
Coaching: we support you in your reflection on your skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Through personality tests and individual coaching, we link this self-knowledge to your ambitions and career choices.
Personal Branding: you will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills for your future employers.

Consulting Mission

A unique exercise that is a major asset in your program!
For the account of prestigious TBS partner companies, students, coached by the professors, carry out a strategic diagnosis aiming to analyze its competitive position, then propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet its challenges.

Examples of partner companies

Aerospace Valley, AIRBUS, Cap Gemini, Comtesse du Barry, Continental Automotive, EY, Hilti, Mars Petfoods, Motorola, Thalès, Rockwell & Collins.

Master Thesis

Objective: Increase your brain agility to anticipate and solve complex business issues in your field of expertise.

Each student in this MSc program is required to write a dissertation which addresses a current issue in management from an academic perspective in his field of expertise.

The student thus contributes to the study, analysis, formalization and abstraction of the identified problem.

Internship

Students may carry out an internship in the company of their choice for a period of 3 to 6 months.

Benefits

• Understand how to value assets and finance a firm under market imperfections.
• Conduct financial analysis, value a company in different circumstances and measure the value created by managers.
• Define, implement and finance a strategy for managing profitable growth.
• Understand banks' business models under international regulations, compliance requirements, and in an ethical way.
• Comprehend the use of financial markets for investing and financing decisions.

• Credit Analyst
• Financial Analyst
• Hedge Fund Assistant Manager
• M&A Advisor
• Private Equity Analyst
• Equity Research Analyst
• Corporate and Investment Banking
• Cash Manager
• Financial Auditor