Financial Markets

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. Define a financial market including the various types and roles of financial markets, the roles, functions and operations of banks and nonbank financial institutions, and the important operational and institutional issues involved in international markets.
  2. Critically discuss the function, and current settings of, relevant financial regulation, regulators and the supervisory framework.
  3. Analyse the concept of sustainability as it relates to the finance sector and the opportunities and challenges posed by the environment, governance and society.
  4. Demonstrate effective means of communicating technical and contemporary information to stakeholders.

  Assurance of Learning:

  This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO): Effectively communicate at an advanced level with diverse audiences using clearly articulated reasoning through a variety of modes and media.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Griffith University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-GCC-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate in Commerce

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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