
Financial Instruments
Program: Bachelor of Business and Administration (Specialisations: Business, Finance, Governance)
ECTS: 3
Lecturer: Witold Srokosz
Email: witold.srokosz@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Optional
Level: Elementary
Lecture
Number of hours: 2h X 6 weeks = 12 hours (1 semester)
Classes
Number of hours: 2h X 4 weeks = 8 hours (1 semester)
Biography of the Professor
Professor in the Department of Financial Law. A legal counsel in Wroclaw. He specializes in financial market law and bank law. Author of over a hundred publications about Polish and EU financial market law and banking law (including monographs “Banking operations reserved for banks”, Bydgoszcz – Wrocław 2003, “Non-banks in Poland”, Warsaw 2011; “Cryptocurrencies as electronic means of payment without the issuer. Computer science, economic, and legal aspects”, Wrocław 2016 (co-authors S. Bala, T. Kopyścieński), articles in journals, chapters in monographs, and over sixty problematic comments in “Lex for banks “). Member of the Editorial Board of the “Banking Law Monitor” (“Monitor Prawa Bankowego”).
Requirements for passing a course
Final papers on given topics (50%) and personal activity during classes (50 %).
Topics of final papers:
1. Structure of the capital market
2. Functioning of the capital market
3. Structure of the money market
4. Types of financial instruments
5. Using financial instruments
6. Debt securities
7. Derivatives
8. Types of swaps
9. Options
10. Regulation of swaps
11. Stocks
12. Securities regulation
13. Tokens as financial instruments
14. Hedge Funds
Sources
1. A. N. Rechtschaffen, Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law. Evolution After Crisis, Oxford 2014,
2. N. Moloney, E. Ferran, and J. Payne, The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation, Oxford 2017
3. Lastra R. M., International Financial and Monetary Law, Oxford 2015