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Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) - MSc Risk Management

The programme will serve as an articulation path for the Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Risk Management (Pgdip ERM) graduates of HKUSPACE who have completed the pre-requisite modules. Graduates of Pgdip ERM of HKUSPACE who have completed the *pre-requisite modules, would be exempted five modules (120 credits) and they only need to study the module of ‘Research Methods’ (20 credits) and also submit a 12,000-word dissertation (40 credits) to attain the award of MSc Risk Management (total 180 credits). 

A unique programme that aims to provide students with a coherent, relevant and practical programme of knowledge in bank and insurance compliance and prepares them for a career in these and related sectors.   Real-life cases  and exampleswill be discussed, drawing reference from standards and rules highlighting the non-compliance issues involved and grey areas.   

RELEVANT & PRACTICAL PROGRAMME IN SFC AND LISTING COMPLIANCE!!   This is a unique programme that focuses on practical applications and all-round training in corporate compliance; it is positioned to be the pioneer in the market.   Contemporary cases will be discussed; drawing reference from standards and rules highlighting the issues and grey areas. Real-life examples and updated cases will be discussed during the class.

This programme is UNIQUE in terms of its scope of diversity and its specialist focus. Upon completion of two core modules, one module with 12-credit and three modules with  9-credit,  students will be awarded with Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Risk Management.

The target student groups for this programme are financial services practitioners who need to understand treasury from the customer’s perspective and would like to pursue in-depth knowledge of banking and corporate treasury function in global financial markets. Practitioners such as front office dealers, specialists in treasury banking operations, corporate treasury specialists, treasury risk analysts, treasury management product analysts, treasury and pension officers, corporate treasury back office specialists, internal auditors in treasury operations, or consultants are suitable to attend the programme.

TMA will offer the TMA Level 2 (Full Member) membership to graduates who have successfully completed this programme.

 

The programme aims to provide fundamental knowledge on finance applications of blockchain technology, digital currencies, big data and financial analytics. It covers digital banking, payment systems, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, peer to peer lending, crowdfunding, quantitative methods in financial analysis and big data analytics in finance. The programme develops students with programming skills in Python and put them into practice to solve real world finance problems.    
 

The programme aims to provide students with the key concepts of big data and related operational and ethical issues. It will discuss big data opportunities and challenges, fraud detection, data protection, ethical and compliance issues from managerial perspectives globally. Besides, best practices for data security and compliance, regulatory requirements will be covered in the programme.

The programme aims to provide students with essential knowledge to perform business analytics by processing, analysing, interpreting and visualizing business data. It discusses data wrangling and web scraping methods such as extraction of data from webpages and analysis of collected data to enhance business decision making. Besides, practical business applications of web scraping from managerial perspectives will be covered.

Fintech and Insurtech are new and hot technology in bank and insurance sectors.  Programme Team proposes to introduce a Certificate for module ‘Compliance for Fintech and Insurtech’ which is an evolving area with market demand and is also a unique and pioneering course introduced by HKU SPACE.