Trends and Innovations in Financial Markets

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	154-0566/02
Abbreviation	TIFM
Course title	Trends and Innovations in Financial Markets
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Finance
Course coordinator	Ing. Martina Novotná, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Financial innovations and current trends
2. FinTech in financial services
3. Investment trends in financial markets
4. Asset securitisation – concepts and motivation
5. Residential mortgages as underlying assets
6. Pass-through securities, tranching, and CMO
7. ABS, CDO, and non-mortgage securitisation
8. Securitisation, financial crisis, and regulation
9. Introduction to alternative investments
10. Real estate as an alternative investment
11. Commodities and infrastructure investments
12. Investment vehicles and access to alternative assets
13. Hedge funds and private equity

Literature

CHAMBERS, Donald R., Hossein KAZEMI and Keith H. BLACK. Alternative Investments: An Allocator's Approach. Hoboken: Wiley, 2021. .
MADURA, Jeff. Financial Markets and Institutions. Boston: Cengage, 2021. .
TURI, Abeba N. Financial Technologies and DeFi. A Revisit to the Digital Finance Revolution. Cham: 2023. ISBN .

Advised literature

BODIE, Zvi, Alex KANE and Alan J. MARCUS. Investments. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2021. .
JONES, Colin A. and TREVILLION, Edward. Real Estate Investment. Theory and Practice. Cham: Palgrave, 2022. .
SHRIER, DAvid L. and Alex PENTLAND. Global Fintech. Financial Innovation in the Connected World. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022. .

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