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

Finance COE organizes annually conferences and seminars in financial services industry such as Banking, Insurance and Risk Management. Recently, a 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 hottest topics today in banking. Prior to this, our maiden banking conclave was held in November 2005 on Basel-II norms, Consolidation, Foreign Banks and Banc assurance.

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.

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)