Course

Law of Banking - JURD7333

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS3133

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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