5 April 2016
The MSc in Banking and Risk at the University of Edinburgh Business School has engaged with financial organisations in several ways: joint training events (e.g. on leadership and problem solving), case studies, social events, seminars delivered by practitioners and dissertations proposed by financial institutions from the UK, EU, North America, South America and Australasia (including cases where students are invited to spend up to three months in those institutions to work on their projects, some of which are paid).
Notable examples of such activities are visits of our students to prominent financial organisations. In March 2016, our students travelled to London where they visited the Bank of England and Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ. In those organisations, our students attended bespoke events on preparation for recruitment processes, risk modelling, credit risk and databases used in the financial sector.
Earlier in the year, our students had visited the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Sainsbury’s Bank headquarters in Edinburgh. On such occasions, they met bank staff to hear about credit risk modelling, regulatory capital calculation, bank management and data analysis.
We have just launched the ‘Shadow Bankers’ initiative where selected students have the opportunity to visit financial institutions from one day to two weeks in order to shadow practitioners while they carry out actual tasks related to their jobs. One of the students on the programme has visited Kames Capital in Edinburgh and another two selected students have visited the National Bank of Greece in Athens.