Course Title: Bank Fund Management [EFIN 519]

Course Instructor: Asma Ahmed, Assistant Professor, FBS-JU

E-mail: asma.ahmed@juniv.edu

Course Description:

With the promising economic growth, banking and financial services have been discussed so much over the
past few years. As students, major in Finance & Banking, it is important to have a distinctive concept and
understanding regarding dynamic banking sector of the country. The banking industry of Bangladesh is
consolidating and diversifying in an increasingly deregulated environment. Multiple pressures fueled,
competition nurtured by customers awareness, and expectations of the highest levels of services aided by
sophisticated tools and techniques of analysis, demands for transparency and the regulators’ overdrive to
capital efficiency or asset quality, and the complexity of issues in managing financial institutions have grown
exponentially. The following issues will be discussed in this course.

Course Outline:

Class Topics for Discussion

1. An overview of the changing financial–services sector
The organization and structure of banking
2.
Managing Banking and Financial Services: Current issues and future challenges
3.
Evaluating Bank Performance
4.
Mid-term 01
5. Managing Credit Risk
6. Extended Credit to Business and individuals

7. Managing Interest Rate Risk

Mid-term 02
8. Capital: Risk, regulation and adequacy
9. Banking Activities: Foreign trade finance
Final Examination

Teaching Methods:
The course is mainly lecture-based discuss sessions. It integrates slide show, hand-out distribution,
assignments along with several exams.

Assessment Criteria:

Course works Marks

Assignments (1*10) 10
Internal Class Test (1*10) 10
Assessment Mid Exams (2*15) 30
Attendance & Class Performance 10
In-course Total 60
Final Exam 40
Total Marks 100
Text Book:

 Bank Management and Financial Services- Peter S. Rose & Sylvia C. Hudglns; 9th edition.