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.

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.

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.
Program
  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
Expected timetable

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

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. 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
  41.  
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

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

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€
School Insurance 36€
Fee 1400€
Early Bird: 10% discount on tuition fees for applications made in the 1st phase (15/07/2024 to 26/09/2024)
Tuition fee (single instalment - 3% discount)

or

Fee (5 instalments) 5x280€
1st instalment on registration , 4 instalments by the 5th of each month
Partnership with Banking Institutions: 10% discount on tuition fees with the enrolment of 3 employees.
Note: Discounts cannot be combined
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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