Applicable for students who are admitted from AY2022-23 onwards

Students have to study 6 core courses (3 credits each)

Category of Core Course	Course Code/Course Title
Corporate Finance	IBF502 Corporate Finance
Economics	IBF503 Microeconomics for Global Business
International	IBF504 International Macroeconomics
Investment	IBF505 Investment Theory and Applications
Quantitative	IBF604 Financial Econometrics I
FinTech	IBF624 FinTech Trends and Challenges

+ Any 12 credits of elective courses

Applicable for students who are admitted in AY2021-22 or before

Students have to obtain a minimum of 30 credits which consists of at least 3 credits in each of the five core clusters (total 15 credits)

Corporate Finance Cluster	IBF502 and / or IBF603
Investment Cluster	IBF505 and / or IBF617
Financial Institutions Cluster	IBF606 and / or IBF611 and / or IBF616
International Cluster	IBF504 and / or IBF615 and / or IBF622
Quantitative Cluster	IBF604 and / or IBF618 and / or IBF623

+ 15 credits of elective courses (the extra course taken from the same cluster will be counted as an elective course)

List of Courses

• IBF502 Corporate Finance
• IBF503 Microeconomics for Global Business
• IBF504 International Macroeconomics#
• IBF505 Investment Theory and Applications
• IBF601 Microeconomics of Banking
• IBF602 Derivatives and Risk Management
• IBF603 Multinational Financial Management
• IBF604 Financial Econometrics I
• IBF605 Business Valuation and Financial Statement Analysis
• IBF606 Financial Institutions on the Chinese Mainland and in Hong Kong
• IBF611 Management of Banks and Financial Institutions
• IBF612 Professional Issues in Banking and Finance (1.5 credits)
• IBF614 Fixed-Income Securities
• IBF615 International Money and Finance#
• IBF617 Global Investment
• IBF618 Financial Econometrics II
• IBF619 Accounting for Financial Professionals
• IBF620 Legal Issues in the Regulation and Compliance of Financial and Banking Institutions
• IBF621 Behavioral Finance
• IBF622 Paying for the Real Economy: the Theory and Financing of International Trade
• IBF623 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Economics
• IBF624 Fintech Trends and Challenges
• IBF625 Regional Study of a Financial Center in the East^ (1.5 credits)
• IBF626 Regional Study of a Financial Center in the West^ (1.5 credits)
• IBF627 Practical Cases in Banking and Finance (1.5 credits)
• IBF628 Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Finance
• IBF629 Selected Seminars in Economics and Finance

# Students are not allowed to take both IBF504 and IBF615 for credits.
^ Students are not allowed to take both IBF625 and IBF626 for credits.