Universidade Portucalense – Infante D. Henrique

Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique is a cooperative higher education and scientific research establishment

Post-Graduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law

DURATION

5 months

ECTS

15

VACANCIES

30

REGIME

post-work

FORMAT

online

LANGUAGES

PT

DURATION

5 months

ECTS

15

VACANCIES

30

REGIME

post-work

FORMAT

online

LANGUAGES

pt

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

  • Acquisition of specialised knowledge
  • Highly experienced teaching staff
  • Diversified and complete programmatic content
Presentation

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.

Why choose this course?

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.

Career Prospects
The recipients are all professionals who work or deal daily with banking and the Capital Market, and can deepen their knowledge in these areas. The main recipients are: lawyers, judges, financial intermediaries, senior technicians and bank employees, managers, entrepreneurs, etc …
Objectives
By attending this training, the recipients will be able to better understand the operation of banking and financial markets.
Expected timetable

The Postgraduate Programme will operate entirely via Zoom, with only one final in-person closing event.

The course will be held, as a rule, always on Fridays, from 6pm to 8pm and/or Saturdays from 10am to 12pm, between 10 November 2023 and 5 April 2024.

Programme
  1.  10/11/2023, from 6pm to 8pm – Opening Session
  2.  11/11/2023, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. – Exchange guarantees in promissory notes.
  3.  17/11/2023, from 6pm to 8pm – The importance, requirements and challenges of the internal  control system of credit institutions. Identifying, managing and controlling risks in credit institutions.
  4.  18/11/2023, from 10am to 12pm – Guarantee Funds.
  5.  24/11/2023, from 6pm to 8pm – Resolution Funds.
  6.  25/11/2023, from 10am to 12pm – Deposit protection.
  7.  02/12/2023, from 10am to 12pm – Mortgage credit granted to consumers.
  8.  09/12/2023, from 10am to 12pm – Banking Secrecy.
  9.  15/12/2023, from 6pm to 8pm – The loan agreement and its cancellation.
  10. . 16/12/2023, from 10am to 12pm – Bank Guarantees.
  11. 22/12/2023, from 6pm to 8pm – The general banking relationship: banking contracts, change of circumstances and abusive contractual clauses.
  12. 05/01/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Non-performing loans.
  13.  06/01/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Smart  Contracts and Blockchain.
  14.  12/01/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Product Governance.
  15.  13/01/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Securities: Issue, Placement and Transmission.
  16.  19/01/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Securities  Sanctions.
  17.  20/01/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Public Offerings of Securities.
  18.  26/01/2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Prospectus Regulations and respective Delegated Regulations.
  19.  27/01/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Derivative Financial Instruments: types and modalities.
  20.  02/02/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Bank Interest Rates.
  21.  03/02/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Collective Investment Schemes: Investment Funds and  Investment Companies.
  22.  09/02/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Illegitimate benefits in financial intermediation.
  23.  10/02/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Crimes against the market: abuse of information and market  manipulation.
  24.  16/02/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Securitisation of credits.
  25.  17/02/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Single Supervisory Mechanism. The supervision of the European Central Bank: general perspective and focus on the assessment of the suitability of members of banks’ governing bodies.
  26.  23/02/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Information Security and Digital Operational Resilience in the financial sector: challenges and prospects.
  27.  24/02/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Credit  intermediation in consumer credit agreements. contracts.
  28.  01/03/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Cyber security
  29.  02/03/2024, from 10am to 12pm –  Cryptocurrency vs Bank Currency.
  30.  08/03/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – The banking  commitment in the context of an IPO
  31.  09/03/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Crowdfunding
  32.  15/03/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Data  protection
  33.  16/03/2024, from 10am to 12pm – Internal  Governance of Banks
  34.  22/03/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Bank resolution as a mechanism applicable to to credit institutions with insufficient capital.
  35.  23/03/2024, from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. – Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home: Part 1
  36.  23/03/2024, from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home:  Part II
  37.  29/03/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – The common body of obligations and guarantees (covenants & warranties) in project financing.
  38.  30/03/2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. – Structuring financing from a tax perspective – the balance between borrower and does the balance between borrower and lender exist?
  39.  05/04/2024, from 6pm to 8pm – Closing Session of the Postgraduate Course – In-Person Session
Diploma or Certificate Awarded
A certificate will be issued to those who have attended at least 75% of contact hours in the common trunk and 75% of contact hours in the selected module. The submission and approval of a written assignment entitles you to a postgraduate diploma with the award of 8 ECTS.
Post-Graduate and Advanced Formative Offer

[non-degree courses]

[non-degree courses]

Sessions Program
Course Program
  1. Promissory notes on promissory notes.
  2. Importance, requirements and challenges of the internal control system of credit institutions.
  3. Identification, management and control of risks in credit institutions.
  4. Guarantee Funds.
  5. Resolution Funds.
  6. Protection of deposits.
  7. The general banking relationship: Banking contracts and abusive contractual clauses.
  8. Banking secrecy.
  9. Banking contracts and change of circumstances.
  10. The mortgage credit granted to consumers.
  11. Bank guarantees.
  12. Non-performing loans.
  13. Smart Contracts and Blockchain.
  14. Product Governance.
  15. Securities: Issue, Placement and Transmission.
  16. Sanctions Regime of Securities.
  17. Public Offerings of Securities.
  18. The Regulation of Prospectuses and respective Delegated Regulations.
  19. Derivative Financial Instruments: types and modalities.
  20. Bank Interest Rates.
  21. Collective Investment Schemes: Investment Funds and Investment Companies.
  22. On illegitimate benefits in financial intermediation.
  23. Crimes against the market: abuse of information and market manipulation.
  24. Securitisation.
  25. Single Supervisory Mechanism. The banking supervision of the European Central Bank: general perspective and focus on the assessment of the suitability of the members of the banks’ governing bodies.
  26. Information Security and Digital Operational Resilience in the financial sector: challenges and perspectives.
  27. Credit intermediation in consumer credit contracts.
  28. Bank resolution as a mechanism applicable to credit institutions with insufficient capital.
    Cryptocurrency vs. bank money.
  29. Fintech
  30. Global Banking
  31. Data protection
  32. Cyber security
  33. Internal Governance of Banks
  34. Mortgage Foreclosure and Home Ownership Protection
Study Plan
Study Plan 2022/2023
Banking and Securities Law

The research lines are developed in IJP – Portucalense Legal Institute, the scientific research centre in Legal Sciences of Portucalense University.
The IJP was accredited in the evaluation of the FCT and the European Science Foundation (ESF), being considered a driving force of economic and cultural development of the city of Porto.
The IJP favours an integrated and empirical approach to scientific research in Legal Sciences, relying on an international and multidisciplinary team.
Postgraduate students may have the opportunity, if they wish, to join a scientific research team on the topic of Regulation and Financial Literacy.

Alberto Mateus Vaz
Lawyer – Dower Law Firm

Ana Rita Campos
Head of Section/Fit & Proper Division/ DG Supervision, Governance & Operations
European Central Bank

Benedita Aires
Lawyer and Partner at Vieira de Almeida & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados

Daniel Freire e Almeida
Researcher at CYBERLAW RESEARCH CENTRE – Lisbon Law School

Diogo Pereira Duarte
Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon Law School and Lawyer at Abreu Advogados

Eduardo Castro Marques
Lawyer – Dower Law Firm

Eduardo Paulino
Lawyer and Partner at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Eduardo Sousa Campos
Lawyer at Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão – Sociedade de Advogados

Eva Dias Costa
Associate Professor in the Department of Law at Universidade Portucalense, Researcher at IJP and Lawyer

Fernanda Rebelo
Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at Universidade Portucalense and Researcher at IJP

Hugo Moredo Santos
Lawyer and Partner at Vieira de Almeida & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados

Lara Reis
Head of Regulatory Affairs Department

Luís Graça Moura
Executive Board Member at Banco Português de Investimento, S.A.

Manuel Requicha Ferreira
Lawyer and Partner at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, in the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Department

Maria Amália dos Santos
Judge at the Guimarães Court of Appeal

Maria Emília Teixeira
Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at Universidade Portucalense, Researcher at IJP and Lawyer

Marisa Silva Monteiro
Invited Assistant Professor at the Catholic University – Viseu Regional Centre

Mónica Martínez de Campos
Associate Professor in the Department of Law at Universidade Portucalense and Researcher at IJP

Nuno Bizarro
Senior Lawyer – General Counsel & Corporate Governance, Sonae

Patrícia Afonso Fonseca
Co-ordinating Director of Novo Banco’s Legal Affairs Department

Paulo Duarte
Lawyer and Arbitrator

Pedro Barbosa Morais
Lawyer at Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão – Sociedade de Advogados

Ricardo Andrade Amaro
Lawyer and partner at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Rui Darlindo
Assistant Professor in the Law Department of Universidade Portucalense and Researcher at IJP

Sandra Cardoso
Executive Coordinator of the CMVM’s Issuers Department)

Tiago Correia Moreira
Lawyer and Partner at Vieira de Almeida & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados

Tiago dos Santos Matias
Director of the CMVM’s International and Regulatory Policy Department

Tiago Estêvão Marques
Director of CMVM’s Legal Department

Maria Emilía Teixeira

Coordinator of the Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law

DL/ Departament of Law

Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law
(pg.dbdvm@upt.pt)

Maria Emilía Teixeira

Coordinator of the Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law

DL/ Department of Law

Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law
(pg.dbdvm@upt.pt)

Price List

APPLICATION

100€

TUITION FEE

1300€

SINGLE INSTALMENT (-3%)

1261€

4 INSTALMENT

450€* + 4x212,50€**

* payment on enrolment
** payment one month after the start of the course

Early Bird: 10% discount on tuition fees until 2nd October 2023

Partnership with Institution: Value of Postgraduate Programme (10% discount with the enrolment of 3 employees) | Application + Tuition (3 employees): 4200€ | Special Conditions: 3780€

Note: Discounts cannot be accumulated

Admission Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in:

  • Law;
  • Solicitors;
  • Economics;
  • Management;
  • and, also, students of these degrees and/or masters.
Application period and contact
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