2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS3117 Sustainable Banking

20 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: Valeriya Dinger
Email: V.N.Dinger@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisites

LUBS2205	Corporate Finance
LUBS2260	Banks and Banking Systems
LUBS2265	Commercial Banking

This module is mutually exclusive with

LUBS3003

Business Ethics

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The aim of this module is to develop your higher level technical, professional and ethical skills appropriate for a career in banking and finance in times of technological and sustainability challenges. The module is focused on a critical evaluation of the ethical and financial dimensions of various aspects of sustainability, e.g., environmental and societal sustainability. It is delivered by academics based in the Business School with support from the Inter-disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre. As well as academic literature, the module includes realistic unstructured complex case study scenarios in which you will need to demonstrate professional and ethical judgement.

Objectives

The aim of this module is to develop students' higher level technical, professional and ethical skills appropriate for a career in banking and finance in times of technological and sustainability challenges. As well as the academic literature, the module includes unstructured complex case study scenarios in which students will need to demonstrate appropriate professional and ethical judgement.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Discuss key ethical concepts and evaluate their application in banking and finance;
2. Evaluate alternative theories on ethics and relate them to corporate responsibility practice in the banking and finance sector especially with respect to sustainability;
3. Demonstrate an understanding of how decisions in banking and finance affect environmental sustainability; and
4. How artificial intelligence shapes the interaction between financial firms and the society in general.

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Identify issues that raise professional responsibilities and consequences of unethical behaviour and formulate appropriate professional recommendations with regard to various dimensions of sustainability
- Demonstrate technical, analytical, evaluative and integrative skills appropriate to a professional in the banking and finance discipline.

Syllabus

Indicative content:
Business ethics and corporate social responsibility, banking as a profession and professional ethics, leadership and organisational culture, whistleblowing, banking and finance in the age of Green Finance, financial and ethical aspects of AI and big data in banking and finance, technological and environmental challenges to risk management.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	2.00	20.00
Lecture	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			160.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

This could include a variety of activities, such as reading, watching videos, question practice and exam preparation.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Your teaching methods could include a variety of delivery models, such as face-to-face teaching, live webinars, discussion boards and other interactive activities. There will be opportunities for formative feedback throughout the module.

Methods of assessment

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	3 hr 00 mins	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by 3 hour examination.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 01/05/2024

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