Course 2024-2025 a.y.

20940 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CHALLENGE

Department of Finance

Course taught in English

Class timetable
Exam timetable
Go to class group/s: 6
IM (2 credits - I sem. - OB  |  SECS-P/11)
Course Director:
GIMEDE GIGANTE

Classes: 6 (I sem.)
Instructors:
Class 6: GIMEDE GIGANTE


Mission & Content Summary

MISSION

The course is focused on the topic of finance at an international level. The content is divided into two different parts: the first one is dedicated to corporate finance issues and the second one to investment banking issues. The aim is to give a broad picture about international finance management through both corporates and financial institutions approaches. Moreover, the main goal of the program is to offer both a clear framework and a set of operative tools to understand the relationship between corporates and financial system overall, whereas investment banks play a major role. For these reasons, the course covers advanced topics of corporate finance, i.e. capital budgeting, cost of capital, designing optimal capital structures, advanced models for risk valuation, value creating strategies. Moreover, the course focuses on the analysis of investment banking activity through three main areas: regulation and supervision, markets and competition into ECM, DCM and M&A, management and use of financial solutions.

CONTENT SUMMARY

After an introduction focused on how modern financial institutions set up their strategies in the investment banking competitive arena, the course analyzes the business segments and the products offered to customers and their financial decisions. The course is structured in four modules:

  1. Investment Banking:
    • The business system of investment banking.
    • Regulation and supervision in investment banking activity: a European and an American perspective through Basle II and III Capital Adequacy Framework.
  2. Corporate Finance and financial decisions within corporations:
    • The fundamental of corporate finance through an international perspective.
    • Capital structure issues: the concept of cost of debt and equity capital.
    • Liabilities management: bonds, leasing, mortgages, syndicated loans, hybrid debt.
    • Different models of company valuation (multiples, DCF, APV, real options): theory and advanced practice.
  3. Debt Capital Market deals: underwriting and selling in domestic and international markets; the structure of syndicated loans.
  4. Equity Capital Markets deals: private equity, IPO, private placement.
    • Corporate finance and advisory services: advisory & arranging in M&A; advisory & arranging in corporate restructuring deals.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Know in a very detailed way all the mechanisms behind the relevant deals of investment banking business (i.e., DCM, ECM, M&A and, restructuring), with a specifc focus on the international regulatory framework, company valuation settings and methodologies to calculate risk and performance regarding financial institutions' perspectiv

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...
  • Apply acquired methodologies and tools to the management of major investment banking deals (i.e., private equity, debt issuing, IPO, LBO, M&A, restructuring) to calculate case by case the equity value of the company involved (i.e., based on cash flows and cost of capital) and bank's performance based on revenues, costs and cost of regulatory capital, accordingly with international banking regulation.

Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
  • Practical Exercises
  • Collaborative Works / Assignments

DETAILS

The learning experience of this course is mainly based on face-to-face lectures. However, each of the four modules set forth in Section 1 is accompanied by case discussions and presentations by external guest speakers.

  • The use of cases and external speakers aims at better connecting the body of knowledge covered in the course with real life examples, typically focused on complex investment banking transactions. The interaction between the instructor and students during the case discussions and the presentations helps students understand how professionals in the field approach a transaction and organize it in a structured process going from the deal origination to the final deal execution. Moreeover, the usage of softwares help the students to understand the best practices of the financial market as well.

Assessment methods

  Continuous assessment Partial exams General exam
  • Written individual exam (traditional/online)
  x x
  • Collaborative Works / Assignment (report, exercise, presentation, project work etc.)
x    

ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

The valuation is based on a 30%-30%-40% system:

 

i) the first 30% is a group assignment based on part one

ii) the second 30% is a group assignment based on part two

iii) the last 40% is based on a multiple choice exam (with 30 questions, four possible answers, where 6 questions are based on part one, 6 questions on part two and 18 questions on part three)

 

The questions of the multiple choices exam require either to argument some specific issues discussed during the course or to apply the concepts to numerical examples and mini cases. The final objective of the exam is to verify the students’ capabilities and mastery to collect and to organize information and numerical data to solve some of the problems faced by corporate and institutional clients working with investment banks and financial conglomerates.


Teaching materials


ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

  • Slides and ad hoc readings available in the Bboard Platform.
  • Text of case studies available in the Bboard Platform via Bocconi Library’s Course Reserves.
  • Softwares and exercizes available in the Bboard Platfor.
  • Textbook: Caselli S., Gimede G., Tortoroglio A., "Corporate and Investment Banking. A Hands-On Approach", Egea, Milan, 2021.
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