This is a hybrid class offered to onsite students in SJTU and online exchange students via Virtual Exchange Studentsprogram at APRU and Jiao Tong Global Classroom program. The online open-source course at icourse163.org is offered at the same time.

Tencent/Voov Meeting

Chaoxing App: https://mooc1-1.chaoxing.com/course/214460593.html

China MOOC: https://www.icourse163.org/course/SJTU1-1457912173

Prerequisites:

Students should have some background in basic macroeconomics, microeconomics,finance, algebra, differential calculus, statistics, and a disposition to keepthemselves informed of current developments in the area of banking and financein China as well as in the world.
 
Textbooks and References:

• Lecture Notes

• Saunders and Cornett, Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management     Approach, 8th edition, International Edition, McGraw Hill, 2014 (FIM)

• Peter S. Rose and Sylvia C. Hudgins, Bank Management and Financial Services,     8th Edition, Machinery Industry Press, 2011 (BMFS)

GradingPolicy:

• Class Assignment:          50%

• Presentation:                   20%

• Term Paper:                    20%

• Class Participation:        10%

Class Assignments

• There will be two class assignments. Each student should finish the assignments on her     or his own and hand in separate answers.  

TermPaper and Class Presentation

• Students are advised to form a working group of no more than 5 students. Each group should write a term paper and present it in the class. Each group can choose to write a paper on essential issues related to the Chinese banking industry and apply the methods and techniques learned in the class to analyze the problems. The topic chosen by each group is subject to the approval of the lecturer. The term paper can be a case study, research paper or a referee report of the paper in the references. The following questions should be addressed in your term paper,

• What is the question and why it is interesting and important?

• What are your opinions? What are the arguments and empirical evidence to support your opinion?

• What are the policy implications or the implications on the risk management of Chinese banks of your research?  

• Each group should prepare to present the term paper in Week 5, with 20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A. The presentation slides and term paper should be submitted before the presentation.

• The term paper should be no more than 20 pages with double spaces and Times New Roman 12 pt. The data source and references should be clearly and completely documented.

 
Class Participation

• Students are  encouraged to actively participate in the class discussion. Such activities include comments and questions for lecturer in the class as well as for presenters in the group presentation.

 
Warning:
Plagiarism is taken very seriously. Students caughtplagiarizing in class assignments and/or term paper inthis course will be severely penalized according to the schoolregulation.

Useful Links: 

• World Bank Data

• China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission

• China Banking and Insurance Commission (English)

• The People's Bank of China

• The People's Bank of China (English)

• China Security Regulatory Commission

• China Security Regulatory Commission(English)

• Federal Reserve

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Monetary Authority of  Singapore

  SuggestedPeriodicals:

• Asiamoney www.asiamoney.com

• The Asian Wall Street Journal www.awsj.com

• The Banker www.thebanker.com/

• The Business Times business-times.asia1.com.sg

• The Economist www.economist.com

• Euromoney www.euromoney.com

• The Financial Times www.ft.com

• The Financial Times Chinese www.ftchinese.com

• The Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com