Law of Banking - LAWS3133
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Completion of 78 UOC in LAWS courses.
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Law of Banking provides an introduction to the practice of banking and to relevant principles. The course is concerned with the relation of banker and customer and with instruments, processes and transactions commonly met in that context. It falls into two parts, with the first covering banking regulation and important banking principles and the second considering their application to common banking products and services.
Main Topics
- the banking industry in Australia today
- financial services regulation
- the banker-customer relationship
- privacy and the banker's duty of confidentiality
- Australian Financial Services and Australian Credit Licences
- secured and unsecured lending
- loan sales, negotiation, novation, assignment and participation
- securitisation, derivatives, project finance and syndicated lending
- consumer banking and the Code of Banking Practice
- electronic banking and the ePayments Code
- negotiable instruments, bills of exchange and cheques
- the future of banking, challenges and current issues.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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