Master Financial Services online with IOB
The Pathway to MSc in Financial Services is ideal for financial services professionals who are in leadership positions, or who aspire to leadership roles.
The Pathway to MSc in Financial Services aims to develop expertise in your chosen areas of interest (e.g. Digital, Data, Culture, Risk Management, Retail Banking or Investment Funds) while fostering a strategic perspective to enable you to assess strategic alternatives, identify new growth opportunities, and solve complex problems in financial services.
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The curriculum develops industry specific knowledge and research insights and utilises students’ practical experience to promote peer learning. An important aspect of the programme is the integration of technical skills and a focus on strategic challenges facing financial institutions to identify opportunities and threats arising in the global marketplace.
Students will critically evaluate the implications of operating in a dynamic business environment and the challenges they face in developing and executing strategies to provide value added products, services and solutions as firms seek to create compelling value propositions to support sustainable competitive advantage
On completing the MSc in Financial Services, graduates will be able to:
Utilise in-depth technical and theoretical knowledge necessary to manage in the evolving financial services landscape
Critically appraise the forces shaping financial services including regulation, technology, competition, risk, customer/client expectations
Assimilate a range of theoretical and empirical evidence to analyse complex problems and develop and evaluate innovative solutions and strategic alternatives
Formulate strategy and policy for the financial services firm cognisant of the impact it may have on wider society and the need to recommend courses of action in an ethical and sustainable manner
Critically evaluate the trade-offs between an institution’s risk appetite, related internal control framework, operating model and its profitability
Communicate clearly to stakeholders, using appropriate media and reporting standards, contemporary issues, decisions and developments in retail banking and financial services.
There are two routes to attaining the MSc award.
First route
Study a six module, 60 ECTS Graduate Diploma and then the Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services. The Graduate Diploma programmes are six module programmes that run over 18 months. You must receive 2.2 or higher in the Graduate Diploma programmes to receive the MSc award at the end of your study. IOB offers four Graduate Diplomas - (As outlined in the diagram).
Second route
You must complete two Professional Diplomas from our postgraduate offerings and then the Professional Diploma in Strategic Management in Financial Services. You complete individual Professional Diplomas on a stand alone basis, but need to complete all three Diplomas within seven years to be eligible for the MSc in Financial Services award.
When you successfully complete this programme, you will be awarded the MSc in Financial Services from UCD. This is a level 9 qualification on the National Framework of Qualifications.
You must be a current member of IOB, or become a member, to register for this programme.
If you hold an IOB designation or a designation managed by IOB, CPD hours may be awarded on successful completion of this programme.
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