| CODE | BKF3310 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Thomson Reuters - Applied Analytics | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Banking, Finance and Investments | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Recognizing the growing insurance and banking & finance arena, the study-unit collectively introduces and provides students with hands-on transaction experience through the provision of comprehensive, rigorous & applied training on core Thomson Reuters functionality which is a leading provider of financial information, news and professional workflow solutions. It enables students to broaden their knowledge of the tools used by the most successful financial markets professionals. This study-unit will guide students to become familiar with, and proficient in Thomson Reuters financial services tools and will help them in their future employment. It is a practical hands on study-unit - learning by doing - in which the students will be able to practice the theory knowledge gained through other units within the degree. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit will be critical in enabling students to learn and master Thomson Reuters capabilities and drill-down key market fundamentals delivering critical news, information and analytics through Thomson Reuters reliable infrastructures in increasingly global, electronic and multi-asset class markets which are highly sought by global insurance and banking & finance institutions. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Carry out financial analytics and source an array of information for insurance and banking & finance investment decisions. Whether it is for developed, emerging or frontier markets, Thomson Reuters is the leading of source of company data including fundamentals (financials), estimates, ownership, officers & directors, deals, filings, broker research, corporate actions legal entity data. - Understand global coverage of equities, commodities & energy, fixed income, foreign exchange and money market data with real-time and historical market data. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to employ Thomson Reuters tools to seamlessly search and discover, author and collaborate, publish and present, manage and evaluate research,with sophisticated and applied ways on how to address valuation risk, pricing and reference data integration, distribution and management and managing content and reference data. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Thomson Reuters online library provided freely |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Noel Cassar |
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