COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
- Acquisition of specialised knowledge
- Highly experienced teaching staff
- Diversified and complete programmatic content
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.
The postgraduate programme will operate entirely via Zoom, with only one final face-to-face closing event.
Academic Period
From 14th November 2025 to April 2026
Timetable: Fridays from 6pm to 8pm and/or Saturdays from 10am to 12pm
[non-degree courses]
[non-degree courses]
- Opening Session
- Exchange guarantees in promissory notes.
- The importance, requirements and challenges of the internal control system in credit institutions. Identifying, managing and controlling risks in credit institutions.
- Guarantee funds.
- Resolution funds.
- Deposit protection.
- Mortgage credit granted to consumers.
- Banking secrecy.
- Loan agreements and their cancellation.
- Bank guarantees.
- The general banking relationship: banking contracts, change of circumstances and unfair contract terms.
- Non-performing loans.
- Smart Contracts and Blockchain.
- Product Governance.
- Securities: Issue, Placement and Transfer.
- Securities Sanctions.
- Public Offers of Securities.
- The Prospectus Regulation and its Delegated Regulations.
- Derivative Financial Instruments: types and modalities.
- Bank Interest Rates.
- Collective Investment
- Schemes: Investment
- Funds and Investment Companies.
- Illegal benefits in financial intermediation.
Crimes against the market: abuse of information and market manipulation. - Securitisation of credits.
- Single Supervisory Mechanism. The European Central Bank’s banking supervision: general overview and focus on assessing the suitability of members of banks’ governing bodies.
- Information Security and Digital Operational Resilience in the financial sector: challenges and prospects.
- Credit intermediation in consumer credit agreements.
- Cyber security
- Cryptocurrency vs Bank Currency.
- Bank commitment in the context of an IPO
- Crowdfunding
- Data protection
- Internal bank governance
- Bank resolution as a mechanism applicable to credit institutions with insufficient capital.
- Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home: Part I
- Mortgage enforcement and protection of the family home: Part II
- The common body of obligations and guarantees (covenants & warrants) in project finance.
- Structuring finance from a tax perspective – is there a balance between borrower and lender?
- Closing Session of the Postgraduate Course – In-Person Session
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
João Vieira dos Santos
Lawyer at CMVM
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 Camacho Palma
Partner in charge of tax law at Linklaters’ Lisbon office and Portuguese representative of the Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD))
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
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Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law
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Maria Emilía Teixeira
Coordinator of the Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law
DL/ Department of Law
Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law
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Note: Discounts cannot be combined
1st Phase – 2 June to 22 September 2025 | Early Bird: 10% discount on tuition fees
2nd Phase – 23rd September to 30th October 2026
