JAGSoM’s Banking Career Track courses provide comprehensive knowledge and certifications for aspiring banking professionals.
For the banks & NBFCs in the lending space, credit dispensation remains the most critical of activities as most of the earning comes from here. This course on Certified Credit Professional aims at developing credit Skills for handling credit proposals in banks of small, medium, and large size corporate clients. The focus is on developing skills for handling credit risk associated with loan origination, loan appraisal and credit rating besides risk-based pricing. This also inculcates skills for stressed assets management.
Besides credit dispensation, treasury management remains another critical area for banks, financial institutions, and NBFCs. The course on Certified Treasury Professional focusses on creating well-trained professionals to handle the Front Office, Back Office, and Mid Office operations in banks/ financial institutions/ NBFCs in the area of treasury.
There has been significant progression in the banks towards digitization of banking services and processes. This course on Digital Banking focusses on providing a sound foundation in understanding digital banking products such as Cards, ATMs, Mobile Banking, Internet Banking and PoS. This enables students to become familiar with new technologies and their evolution in banking world.
It is essential for the student to gain a good understanding of the various principles in the banking operations such as Negotiable Instruments Act, Banking Regulation Act, etc., besides understanding the best of banking practices. This course on Principles & Practices of Banking familiarizes them with the Indian banking system.
The Indian population is relatively young with 65% of population in the age group of <=35 years. When combined with the fact that India is emerging as a global manufacturing hub it offers tremendous scope for the retail and corporate banking businesses. This course on Corporate & Retail Banking focusses on developing and augmenting the skills needed for managing the needs of corporate & retail customers.
The role of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the economic and social development of countries like India can hardly be over-emphasized. The MSMEs play a pivotal role as suppliers to the big industries or as distributors of products of these large industries. The MSME Sector in India contributes over 40% of Indian exports and is the second largest employer next only to agriculture. The fact that only about 10% of MSMEs are on the formal lending platform, offers an immense opportunity for banks/ financial institutions/NBFCs. This course on MSME Financing focuses on understanding the issues and challenges of MSMEs, and the differentiating credit management aspects pertaining to them when compared to conventional credit management.
| S.No. | Course Type | Course Name | Course Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elective | Financial Systems And Markets | |
| 2 | Elective | Corporate Taxation | The course starts with the basics of taxation and covers corporate tax (direct) as well as Goods & Service Tax (indirect), computation of taxable income and cover aspects of corporate tax planning. |
| 3 | Elective | Corporate And Retail Banking | The course covers the breadth of corporate and retail banking services offered by banks – fund-based and non-fund based. The process of credit appraisal and credit monitoring is covered in depth. There is coverage of Project Appraisals and also non-fund based export finance and buyer’s & supplier’s credit facilities offered by banks. The loan covenants, risk profiling and credit risk management are covered. On Retail Banking, the types of products, credit appraisal and other services are covered as well. |
| 4 | Elective | Wealth Management | The course proposes to provide students with an insight into perspectives, principles, and practices of the personal financial planning industry, examine the present status and developments that are taking place in the personal financial planning industry and to inculcate among the students the application of personal financial planning process in an understandable, step–by–step format. |
| 5 | Elective | Business Valuation And Pvt. Equity | The course covers approaches to valuation, dilution and anti-dilution and the importance of a business plan. It covers the lifecycle of a venture- funded company, regulatory aspects around a Private Equity Fund, documentation requirements of a PE Fund, day-to-day operations and the entire life cycle of a Private Equity Fund.>/p> Valuation includes cashflow based (DCF), relative valuation (multiples) and market transaction method to provide a complete toolkit required by a student entering the world of Private Equity and AIFs. |
| 6 | Elective | Security Analysis & Portfolio Management | Familiarizing the students with modern portfolio analysis in the context of the Capital markets. This includes understanding the difference between Investment and Speculation, Fundamental vs Technical Analysis, Efficient Market hypothesis, Technical Analysis like Dow and Elliott Wave theory, and price movement indicators. This course also covers Stock Valuation using different methods like DCF, multiples etc. and under different conditions like inflation. Similar performance for Bond Yields (and pricing), modern portfolio theory and portfolio performance evaluation of mutual funds. |
| 7 | Elective | Investment Banking And M&A | The course outlines the necessary knowledge areas of Investment Banking starting with Core and Allied Areas (Mutual Funds, Alternate Investment Funds). Domestic Issue management from the types of issues, the role of an investment bank and SEBI Regulations are covered in depth including assignments to pitch as an Investment Banker. Types of equity and debt instruments in India and overseas markets are covered as also Private Placements and Underwriting. ADR / GDR as well as FCCBs and External Commercial Borrowings are covered with adequate sessions to ensure the student understands all aspects of what an Investment or Merchant Bank does today. M&A is a time-tested strategy for businesses to grow. This course allows the students to understand and appreciate the reasons behind the corporate’s need to acquire or merge. The course dwells on issues related to the valuation and financing of businesses and also introduces the students to divestitures. |
| 8 | Elective | Fundamentals Of Derivatives | This course covers the breadth of derivatives starting from basics – types of derivatives, where traded (OTC vs Exchange), regulations related to these instruments, forwards versus futures – commodity futures, index and currency futures and introduction to hedging. Similarly, type of options – stock, currency and their payoffs and trading strategies. Use of Option Pricing models like Binomial, Black-Scholes, volatility, price sensitivities (Greeks of Options), interest rate and currency swaps, forward rate agreements and credit derivatives. Understanding Value at Risk models. |
| S.No. | Name of Core Course | Course Snapshot |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corporate Finance | Students are inducted into the various finance functions and how this maps vis-à-vis business goals and shareholder value creation. Techniques of valuation like Discounted cash flow techniques and their various applications, including applications for capital investment decisions and valuation of bonds/stocks, cost of capital estimation, capital structure planning and dividend decision are taught. Raising funds in the domestic and international markets and the basics of mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring are covered. |
| 2 | Managerial Accounting | The objectives of this course are to demonstrate the role of Cost Accounting and Management Accounting as means to ascertain costs and take some key decisions for taking the business towards profitability, and to lay a foundation for developing their skills in decision making using financial data. The course acquaints participants in brief with cost and management accounting mechanics, processes, and systems, but the emphasis is laid on sound concepts and their managerial implications that will help in reducing the cost and increasing profits. Participants learn about Decision making skills regarding costing; arriving at the Break Even Point; make or buy decisions; budgeting; and implementing ABC in a company. |
JAGSoM is amongst the select few Business Schools in India with an International Profile: AACSB Accredited & QS Ranked for Marketing, Finance and Analytics programs.
