Finance Centre of Excellence is designed to provide students with advanced skills in applied finance required in today's competitive financial environment. The programme provides a strong foundation in economics and teaches quantitative and analytical skills employed in investment structuring, pricing, and risk management of financial instruments, in the development of trading strategies, and in the utilization of financial products by end-users. This curriculum has been developed in consultation with leading industry professionals and incorporates an extensive use of industry software.

A finance concentration prepares students for careers in corporate finance and treasury management, investment banking, commercial banking, insurance, and portfolio management.

	Objective of the Course
	Academic Initiatives
	Management Development Programmes
	Faculty

Objective of the Course

	To provide in-depth learning in financial decision-making, financial instruments and markets.
	To enhance application of economic and financial theory obtain solutions to financial problems.
	Choosing among alternative investment projects and evaluating proposed investment strategies

Academic Initiatives

The Finance COE organizes annually, conferences and seminars in financial services industry such as Banking, Insurance and Risk Management. Banking conclave on 'Basel-II Norms' and 'Microfinance' was held in Mumbai in February 2007, where elite professionals from banking fraternity successfully discussed and debated over these topics which are the buzzwords in banking nowadays. Prior to this, our maiden banking conclave was held in November 2005 on Basel-II norms, Consolidation, Foreign Banks and Banc assurance.

In the past a seminar on Risk management titled “Risk Management Seminar – An industry perspective” was organized on November 24,2007 at the JW Marriot, Mumbai.This year we are continuing the series with an “Integrated Risk Management Seminar” in association with MCX on the 5th of December, 2009 at the Le Meridien in Mumbai, where industry experts have been invited to speak on their experiences in risk management

One of our major initiatives has been the generation and dissemination of quality information with respect to Finance, in the form of a monthly magazine called the FINALYST.

“The FINALYST” is our major research initiative - a monthly publication covering articles on current finance topics across all major industries contributed by students, alumni and corporate executives. This also includes an in-depth pre-budget and post-budget analysis every year in February.

Starting from this year we have also come up with a new publication titled “The Knowledge Series” , directed primarily at students in order to familiarize them with some of the key finance topics that they wish to know more about. 

 View all the Finalyst & Knowledge Series editions by clicking  here
 For more details on activities of Finance Club click here

Management Development Programmes

	Finance for Non-Finance executives (e.g. First Source Solutions Ltd., Bharat Forge Ltd.)
	Consulting in Business Risk and Assurance Services(e.g. Grant Thornton India)