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Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Financial Markets I . A

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 154-0332/02
Abbreviation FTIA
Course title Financial Markets I . A
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Finance
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Aleš Kresta, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Financial markets and institutions, the role of financial intermediaries
2. Banking system in the Czech Republic and the EU, development of banking
3. The history of central banking and the role of central banks today
4. Commercial banking industry and banking regulation
5. Banking products, interest rates, pricing of banking products
6. Liabilities operations (deposit on demand, time deposits, saving deposits, deposit bills), bank deposit products
7. Assets operations, types of loans
8. Collaterals
9. The payments systems, cash payment, cashless payment systems
10. Payment instruments (credit transfers, direct debits, checks, payment cards, bills of exchange)
11. Off-balance- sheet activities
12. E-banking
13. Savings banks (associations) and credit unions

Literature

JANOVEC, Michal. Finanční trh a jeho stabilita. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2023. Právní monografie. ISBN 978-80-7676-597-9.
POLOUČEK, Stanislav. Bankovnictví. 2. vyd. V Praze: C. H. Beck, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7400-491-9.
REVENDA, Zbyněk. Centrální bankovnictví. 3. aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7261-230-7.

Advised literature

CECCHETTI, Stephen G. and Kermit L. SCHOENHOLTZ. Money, banking, and financial markets. Sixth edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019. ISBN 978-1-260-22678-2.
PEDERSEN, Niels. Financial technology: case studies in fintech innovation. London: Kogan Page, 2021. ISBN 978-1-78966-545-1.
PRASAD, Eswar S. The future of money: how the digital revolution is transforming currencies and finance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-674-25844-0.