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Banking

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 154-0568/02
Abbreviation BNKa
Course title Banking
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Finance
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Aleš Kresta, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Characteristics of banking system.
2. Main functions and position of a central bank in economy.
3. Bank characteristics.
4. Characteristic of banks and banking systems in the world.
5. Systematization of banking products, pricing of banking products.
6. Client creditworthiness, lending procedures and forms of loan collateral.
7. Deposit services.
8. Providing loans to businesses.
9. Providing loans to consumers.
10. Banking services (non-deposit and non-loan products).
11. Payment systems – characteristics of domestic and cross-country payment systems.
12. Cashless payment instruments for domestics and international payments.
13. Payment instruments: - checks, bills of exchange, documentary collections.
14. New trends in banking (Fintech, Cashless society).

Literature

JANOVEC, Michal. Finanční trh a jeho stabilita. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2023. Právní monografie. ISBN 978-80-7676-597-9.
MISHKIN, Frederic S. The economics of money, banking, and financial markets. 12th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2021. ISBN 978-0134733821 .
TANDA, Alessandra and Cristiana-Maria SCHENA. FinTech, BigTech and banks: digitalisation and its impact on banking business models. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ISBN 978-3030224264 .

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.