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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Finance Fundamentals: Financial Services after the Banking Crisis
The Open University and The Open University Business School
This course examined the financial services industry, its history, its products and the way it is regulated.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the origins and development of the UK financial services industry
- Assess and examine the UK financial services industry and the issues it faces following the 2007/08 financial crisis
- Evaluate and review the financial products available to consumers in the financial marketplace
- Identify and understand how financial services firms and financial product sales are regulated
- Explore the support, advice and guidance available to financial services consumers
Syllabus
- The historical development of financial services in the UK
- The 2007/08 financial crisis
- The financial services industry after the financial crisis
- The revisions to the regulation of the industry after the financial crisis
- Financial products and new product offerings for consumers
- The pensions revolution in the UK
- How financial firms are regulated
- How financial product sales are regulated
- How consumers are protected and helped in the financial market place
Issued on 18th June 2019
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