Law of Banking and Finance - LEGT2761

 
Faculty: Australian School of Business
 
 
School:  School of Business Law and Tax
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.blt.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LEGT1711 or 12UOC offered by Commerce and Economics or the approval of the Head of School
 
 
Excluded: LEGT1761
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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.