Post-Graduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law

This course aims to train in a specialized way, in an area of law whose knowledge is not yet properly explored and established.

What is intended with this Postgraduation is to address in a complete and contemporary way these two areas of law.
The main and great advantage of this training is its faculty, composed not only by university professors who are researchers in the field, but also by professionals from both sectors, bringing and lending to their experience and bringing a more realistic and practical view of the dimensions studies.The course will work in a hybrid way, with online sessions and other face-to-face sessions.

The Postgraduate Programme will operate in a hybrid format, with online sessions and other face-to-face sessions.” for: “The Postgraduate Programme will operate in an online format, with only the closing session and awarding of diplomas being face-to-face.

Knowledge about Banking Law and Securities Law is of utmost importance for citizens in general, but especially for professionals in the field and for those who are now beginning to enter into professional life and encounter these issues.

With this training, its recipients will be endowed with the technical skills and knowledge essential for the proper performance of functions in the area of ??Banking and Securities Law.

1. Opening Session
2. Exchange guarantees in promissory notes.
3. The importance, requirements and challenges of the internal control system in credit institutions. Identifying, managing and controlling risks in credit institutions.
4. Guarantee funds.
5. Resolution funds.
6. Deposit protection.
7. Mortgage credit granted to consumers.
8. Banking secrecy.
9. Loan agreements and their cancellation.
10. Bank guarantees.
11. The general banking relationship: banking contracts, change of circumstances and unfair contract terms.
12. Non-performing loans.
13. Smart Contracts and Blockchain.
14. Product Governance.
15. Securities: Issue, Placement and Transfer.
16. Securities Sanctions.
17. Public Offers of Securities.
18. The Prospectus Regulation and its Delegated Regulations.
19. Derivative Financial Instruments: types and modalities.
20. Bank Interest Rates.
21. Collective Investment
22. Schemes: Investment
23. Funds and Investment Companies.
24. Illegal benefits in financial intermediation.
    Crimes against the market: abuse of information and market manipulation.
25. Securitisation of credits.
26. Single Supervisory Mechanism. The European Central Bank’s banking supervision: general overview and focus on assessing the suitability of members of banks’ governing bodies.
27. Information Security and Digital Operational Resilience in the financial sector: challenges and prospects.
28. Credit intermediation in consumer credit agreements.
29. Cyber security
30. Cryptocurrency vs Bank Currency.
31. Bank commitment in the context of an IPO
32. Crowdfunding
33. Data protection
34. Internal bank governance
35. Bank resolution as a mechanism applicable to credit institutions with insufficient capital.
36. Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home: Part I
37. Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home: Part II
38. The common body of obligations and guarantees (covenants & warrants) in project finance.
39. Structuring finance from a tax perspective – is there a balance between borrower and lender?
40. Closing Session of the Postgraduate Course – In-Person Session

The postgraduate programme will operate entirely via Zoom, with only one final face-to-face closing event.

Scheduled start date: 15 November 11 April 2025

Timetable: Fridays from 6pm to 8pm and/or Saturdays from 10am to 12pm

Planned teaching period: : 15 November 11 April 2025