UNSW Handbook Course - Law of Banking and Finance

Law of Banking and Finance - LEGT2761


	Faculty: Faculty of Commerce and Economics
	School: School of Business Law and Tax
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: LEGT1711 or 12UOC offered by Commerce and Economics or the approval of the Head of School
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

This course examines the regulatory environment for banking and finance with particular reference to lending transactions and the securities taken by all financial institutions that lend for profit. Topics include legal concepts underlying the bank-customer relationship and duties of banker and customer; foreign currency loans; consumer issues in lending; electronic banking; use and regulation of negotiable instruments (cheques, promissory notes and bills of exchange); corporate fund raising; domestic and international methods of fund raising.

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