| Learning Outcomes

Master in ‘Banking and Finance Law’ provides to its graduates the necessary knowledge background on the operation of the financial system ― not only from a lawyer’s point of view, but also from the side of finance ― so as they will be sufficiently equipped to apply them in their professional environment. More specifically, upon their completion of studies, the graduates will have obtained the necessary equipment and advantages to be capable of:

• Combining finance and law studies to recognize and solve problems arising from the financial and business sector,
• Recognizing and determining the manner through which financial and business entities operate within the money and capital markets,
• Detecting the sources of legal risks and thus to assess the ways through which they find out the mechanisms to effectively deal with them within the framework of the current legal status,
• Comprehending the mechanisms through which these entities operate, understanding the scope of their presence, and detecting the risks their operation raises for their users,
• Realizing the mechanism of building the financial statements, as well as the presence of legal risks through their acquired accounting knowledge their studies have offered them,
• Widening/expanding their knowledge about business law, as well as about the law governing listed firms and financial entities,
• Developing a critical thinking with respect to the legal framework that governs the presence of new financial products and thus to be able to form statements in relevance to those products, as well as to recommend certain ways to cope with the risks associated with the presence of those products,
• Realizing the way listed firms operate, as well as their legal framework that is valid in an organized business market,
• Designing the necessary regulations that govern the intrinsic organization of listed firms on stock exchange markets,
• Designing certain business policies necessary to make business comply with certain parts of the legal framework, such as risk management policies, money laundering policies, as well as policies in relevance to cope with market manipulation,
• Examining, determining, analyzing, and assessing corporate responsibility issues, including those in relevance to business ethics, environmental and social responsibility, firms’ decisions, the mechanisms of the Board of Directors accounting, listed firms’ transparency, as well as the mechanisms of internal auditing and risk management decisions,
• Detecting any negative outcomes in relevance to monopolistic firms and market manipulation processes on economic welfare,
• Pricing basic financial derivatives,
• Combining enhanced knowledge and analytical efficiency with respect to banking law,
• Designing new innovative practices and mechanisms regarding the valid and efficient coping of legal discrepancies in relevance to economic, financial, and accounting issues,
• Forming a scientific opinion about economic, financial, and legal issues that tend to affect and form the procedure of the financial sector integration,
• Developing a critical attitude and scientifically analyzing the interaction and the synergies between the European and international economic/financial/legal environment, between the national and European economic policies, between the economic and financial operation of the business and the banking sectors, as well as the legal system that determines the regulatory framework of these relevant markets,
• Assessing the different characteristics, as well as the different operational mechanisms of certain financial means,
• Detecting, assessing, and comparing the characteristics of certain financial mechanisms,
• Effectively collaborating towards the implementation of team studies,
• Keeping strict regulations about professional and ethical norms within the framework of corporate social responsibility,
• Being in a place to obtaining high-ranking positions in various public and private business entities as in-house lawyers, in the national, European, and international business environment as legal and business experts, or as specialized legal advisors in their own business offering solutions and strategies with respect to various legal and financial problems.