Master in Finance and Banking. Specialization: Market or Risk Management
Our master in finance, with the Specializations in Financial Markets and in Risk Management, will turn you into a professional in the financial area that today's market needs. Prepare yourself to be an investment fund manager, bank manager, personal advisor, or expert in the new disruptive platforms in the sector.
Next edition
Classes start: 25 September, 2024 (To be confirmed)
Program ends: 01 July, 2025 (To be confirmed)
Modality
On-campus
Language
Spanish
ECTS credits
60
Schedule
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 pm to 9 pm. Depending on the electives and/or complementary activities, there may also be classes on Tuesdays and exceptionally on Thursdays at the same time.
Price
13500 €
The previous masters offered by the school in Financial Markets and in Banking and Finance have been transformed into the Master in Finance and Banking, to respond to an essential training need for professionals and students who want to develop their careers in the corporate finance sector.
Why choose this program
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International recognition
Master ranked number 48 of the Top 100 in the world in financial markets by the Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking. Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
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Trains versatile professionals who are up to date with current market needs
New technologies have transformed the financial sector. This master will provide you with, in addition to the necessary financial knowledge, knowledge of the new business models, technology, and products that have burst onto the sector, training you to develop your profession in this changing environment.
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Learn from experts in the sector
You will be trained, for the most part, with recognized active professionals who will contribute the knowledge and experience acquired in their day to day work, as well as with UPF professors, whose Department of Economics and Business has been classified as first in Spain, third in Europe and 46th in the world, by Times Higher Education.
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Carry out your internship in top-level entities
The master offers you the possibility of doing professional internships in leading entities of the first level in the financial sector such as BBVA, Banco Sabadell, Criteria Caixaholding, or the Governing Society of the Barcelona Stock Exchange, among others.
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Recognized by the CNMV: allows you to act as a Financial Advisor
The master (Market Specialization) is published in the list of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that certifies that you will obtain the knowledge and skills of staff who provide financial advice and information, in accordance with the provisions of the European MIFID II directive and that therefore you will be able to practise this profession once you have completed the course.
Students from Specializations: Risk Management and customized itinerary, will be able to obtain this accreditation by completing a complementary training course included in the master.
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CFA Accreditation
The Master's is a member of the University Affiliation Program of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute. At the end of the Master you will be ready to take the exam to obtain the CFA accreditation, a prestigious international recognition in investment management and financial analysis, and for which there are two scholarships offered in each course.
You can also take part in the CFA Research Challenge, a team competition in which more than 1,000 universities and Business Schools participate from all over the world.
Specializations
The master offers 3 possible training itineraries. Two itineraries with specializations and a third customized itinerary.
Market Specialization
You will specialize in advising clients within private banking and in financial market analysis in research services of financial entities (banks, companies, and securities agencies).
Risk Management Specialization
You will specialize in global knowledge of the financial sector and credit institutions. It offers specific training in risk analysis, both credit (essential as a core business of banking) and in the management of cash and liquidity risks, and markets.
Finance and Banking (customized itinerary)
This itinerary allows you to customize the program, choosing the subjects that interest you the most and which to suit your professional concerns and goals from among all the optional subjects offered.
Who is it for?
The master is aimed at both young graduates in the field of Social and Legal Sciences or Engineering or other disciplines in the quantitative field who want to develop their professional career in the financial or banking sector.
The program will also welcome qualified professionals who currently work in the sector and want to deepen or update their knowledge in the area.
Accreditations
UPF Barcelona School of Management is the management school of Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Ibero-American university and the 16th placed university in the world, among those under 50 years of age, according to the Times Higher Education ranking.
UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally, and places itself among the top business schools in the world.
The Master in Finance and Banking is an official master's degree and has the academic recognition of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain. This accreditation certifies all the official university master's degrees that we teach and recognizes the quality of our educational model in accordance with the criteria of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
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Curriculum
The Master in Finance and Banking allows you to obtain the title with specialization (Markets or Risk Management) or without specialization.
All participants must take all the subjects of Fundamentals of Finance and Banking during the first quarter (24 ECTS), and in the second and third quarter 30 optional ECTS, in addition to the Master's Final Project (6 ECTS), which will be developed throughout the course.
Courses with specialization: the student must take the 5 optional subjects of the chosen specialty plus 10 ECTS chosen from all the optional subjects offered (including Professional Internships and optional subjects from the other specialization).
Courses without specialization: the student will choose 30 ECTS from all the optional subjects offered.
Compulsory subjects (24 ECTS)
Basic Finance Instruments (24 ECTS)
Optional subjects (30 ECTS)
Market Specialization (20 ECTS)
Risk Management Specialization (20 ECTS)
Other optional subjects available Subjects of 3 or 4 ECTS, except the Professional Interships ( 6ECTS)
Master's Final Project (6 ECTS)
Note on elective courses
Complementary activities
Those students who have not completed the main subjects recommended for following the master in their previous degree may take supplementary training prior to the start of classes in the following subjects:
- Accounting and Finance
- Economy
- Quantitative methods and basic mathematical concepts
The Master in Finance and Banking also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
- International mobility: The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you the possibility of expanding your training and international vision through different programmes and activities:
- International mobility programme: extend your studies extracurricularly, during the academic year following the completion of your Master's, at a top-level institution. Limited places.
- Study Trip: optional trip to a European city in which conferences and visits to companies will be scheduled so as to expand knowledge and acquire a global vision.
Qualification obtained
After completing the program, and depending on their specialization, students will be awarded with the following degrees:
- Màster Universitari en Finances i Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking - Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Màster Universitari en Finances i Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialitat en Gestió del Risc - Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialidad en Gestión del Riesgo, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Màster Universitari en Finances i Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialitat en Mercats - Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialidad en Mercados, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Issuance of official Master's Degrees: The amount stipulated in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia) must be paid for the rights to issue the title. This rate varies annually and the rate in force at the time of application for the degree will be applied.
Faculty
The teaching team brings a dual approach to the program. On the one hand, professors from the prestigious UPF Department of Economics and Business, who contribute their theoretical knowledge. On the other hand, recognized active professionals, who contribute their experience on how to apply knowledge to the daily reality of today's companies.
Academic directors
Xavier Brun Lozano
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Oscar Elvira Benito
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Xavier Freixas Dargallo
Full Professor UPF
Faculty
Xavier Brun Lozano
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Oscar Elvira Benito
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Xavier Freixas Dargallo
Full Professor UPF
David Igual Molina
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Carmen Jover Díaz
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Pablo Larraga López
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Luz Parrondo Tort
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Director of the Academic Department of Finance & Control
Miquel Planiol Ribera
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Luz Mary Pinzon Sarmiento
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Xavier Puig Pla
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Joan Anton Ros Guasch
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Antonio Valls Roig
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Methodology
The Master of Finance and Banking program has a very practical and professional approach.
Theory and practice are combined with a very participatory methodology. In addition to the presentation of theoretical concepts by the teachers, there is the interaction and intervention of the students.
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Connect with the professional world
Throughout the course, practical, real, and current cases will be presented and discussed which will allow you to apply the concepts learned and thus face the situations that you will find in your company or professional activity.
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Team building
The experience of group activities will allow you to share visions, knowledge, and opinions with students not only from Barcelona but from all over the world, enriching your academic experience and strengthening your network of contacts.
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Tutored final project
The experience of group activities will allow you to share visions, knowledge, and opinions with students not only from Barcelona but from all over the world, enriching your academic experience and strengthening your network of contacts.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the program is continuous and will be carried out on the basis of:
- Practical cases, exercises, and work
- Tests of the different subjects
- Class participation and presentations
- Class attendance (the face-to-face modality requires a minimum of 80%)
- Master's Final Project
The student's evaluation activities will be carried out individually and in groups, in order to encourage teamwork.
Tools
The On-Campus&Live methodology allows you to follow the program in person and also remotely.
In this modality, two stable subgroups are opened that will coexist throughout the course: one face-to-face and the other with 100% remote students. The remote students (a maximum of 15 places per course) will follow the program in a synchronous way with the face-to-face students. That is, they will share the same school calendar and schedule as the face-to-face students.
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems, and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills, and achieve learning which is transferable to the job. The face-to-face modality is enriched with elements of online programs (virtual learning environment, multimedia resources, among others) so that the learning experience of the two subgroups is equally satisfactory.
You will have:
- Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
- A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
- Digital resources and audiovisual blocks for online learning
- Active methodologies for transferable learning
Professional Future
The program is aimed at all those young professionals who want to focus their professional career on the current financial sector and seek strategic training that, in addition to providing them with solid financial knowledge, trains them to carry out their work in a sector strongly transformed by the emergence of new technologies.
Upon completion of the master, students will be able to exercise the management of financial products and services, from a perspective of financial advice, as well as the analysis of credit risk and other market risks in a changing environment due to new technologies and ways of working.
Student profile
The master brings together young professionals from various fields (Economics, Business Management, Law, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines), and students who come from different countries with a common goal: accessing quality and up-to-date training, in addition to living an academic experience that provides them with the knowledge and tools to face the challenges of their professional future.
Career opportunities
The main areas covered by the Master in Finance and Banking are risk management, portfolio management and investment funds, financial advice, private banking, and corporate finance.
The program also offers the possibility of choosing the optional subject of Professional Internships, an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in corporate finance, financial accounting, etc. in the professional environment.
Portfolio agencies and companies:
- Portfolio manager
- Financial advisor
- Risk analyst
- Backoffice
- Department of studies
- Broker
Financial entities:
- Personal banking managers
- Private banking managers
- Bank office
- Risk department
- Settlement and clearing of operations
Financial entities. Companies or offices:
- Business managers
- Directors
- Positions in bank offices
Financial entities. Central services:
- Risk analyst
- Social work of the bank
- Personal banking managers
- Marketing
Other entities:
- Financial planning
- Family office
- Corporate finance
- Venture capital
- Insurance companies
- Business consultant
- Central Bank employee
- Commercial Bank manager
- Corporate finance services
- Investment banker
- M&A Advisor
- Wealth manager
- Financial advisor
- Private banking
- Socially Responsible Investment
- Wealth manager
- Financial advisor
- Private banking
Fintechs:
- Crowd funding
- P2P lending
- Roboadvisors
- Payment systems
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
University graduates from the field of Social and Legal Sciences (Business Administration, Economics, Law or courses related to the business economic field, etc.), Engineering and quantitative disciplines (Mathematics, Statistics, etc.).
All those graduates or graduates from outside the field of economics, business, law, or engineering must have a minimum professional experience of two years in the banking or financial sector.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through its form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
| Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 18/07/2023 | 27/07/2023 |
| 15 | 01/09/2023 | 14/09/2023 |
| 16 | 14/09/2023 | 28/09/2023 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Two letters of recommendation (academic or professional)*
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
*Confidential letters of recommendation may be sent directly by e-mail to the Admissions Committee admissions@bsm.upf.edu, with the reference in the subject: "MUFIB letters of recommendation and student's name"
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Applications are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Resgistration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your transcript of records.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program codes for this course are:
- Risk Management: 1569
- Markets: 1567
- Finance and Banking (customized itinerary): 1570
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
We collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.
