MASTER IN FINANCE

Postgraduate programme

MASTER IN FINANCE

Offered by EAE BUSINESS SCHOOL BARCELONA

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Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

EAE Business School Barcelona enables you to specialize in finance and applied technology so that you can rise to the biggest challenge in the sector: the effective and innovative financial management of global digital companies.

Such a huge challenge involves acquiring fundamental knowledge at different levels of the business, from the most operational aspects right up to the purest management level, including a command of the essential disruptive technologies for driving forward the Fintech areas in companies.

The program focuses on financial analysis, financing decisions, financial difficulties and the restructuring process, and the Fintech ecosystem (Wealth Tech, Insurtech, Blockchain, etc.), as well as new forms of investment and alternative financing, new payment methods and cryptocurrencies.

Moreover, the Master in Finance & Fintech is designed to develop your analytical and critical capacity to make strategic decisions, not only to survive as a company but to thrive in this changing and complex Fintech ecosystem.
Knowledge through Practice

You will immerse yourself in a transformative learning environment that embraces fundamentally practical approaches, including the development of personal projects, team work and the analysis of real cases from the current financial and business landscape.

On the Hunt for New Opportunities

You will learn to identify new opportunities within the Fintech ecosystem in order to improve decision-making and optimizing performance in companies.

Command of Disruptive Technologies

You will be able to use financial digital tools effectively and discover how emerging technology can create associations between traditional operators and the new Fintech companies.

The Transformation of Financial Services

You will gain insight into alternative financing sources that enable you to develop new projects and keep up with the latest forms of lending and crowdfunding.

Top-Class Faculty

You will study with a highly qualified and experienced team of lecturers who will share the insight gained from their successful careers in both the academic and business spheres, and their experience in their own areas of specialization.
You will get a tailor-made career plan from our Careers department and our Entrepreneur department, with personalised services for academic training and guidance that will multiply your professional opportunities and extend them to any country in the world.

55% OF OUR STUDENTS FIND OPPORTUNITIES BEFORE GRADUATION AND 45% AFTER

Career Opportunities:

- Financial Manager
- Corporate Financial Consultant
- M&A Analyst
- Financial Risks Manager
- Financial advisor
- Financial institution employee
- Fintech employee
- Entrepreneurs interested in investing in the Fintech and Blockchain sector
- Manager of Bank Accounts
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Modality

ON-CAMPUS: BARCELONA

Entry requirements

1. Initial Information/Admission Request

Once completed, we’ll assign you one of our expert advisors that will get in touch with you.

2. Interview with the Admissions Department

We’ll evaluate your professional and academic profile and, together, we’ll assess your eligibility for advancing towards a Master’s level based on your professional goals.

3. Formal Presentation of the Admission Form:

You will have to send us the following documentation, which we’ll analyse and verify in order to compose your admissions report:

- Updated CV
- Motivation Letter
- Academic and/or Professional Letter of Recommendation
- Last/Ongoing Degree Certificate
- Admission Test (if required)
- Language Certificate (if required)

4. Admissions Committee

Your advisor will be in charge of defending your application in front of the Committee.

5. Process Resolution

We’ll inform you on the result of the process.

6. Booking and Assign You a Spot

You will have 3 to 5 days to make the payment for the inscription.

Dates and duration

10 Months/70 ECTS

Next Date: October 2026

Career opportunities

Where this programme can take you


You will get a tailor-made career plan from our Careers department and our Entrepreneur department, with personalised services for academic training and guidance that will multiply your professional opportunities and extend them to any country in the world.

55% OF OUR STUDENTS FIND OPPORTUNITIES BEFORE GRADUATION AND 45% AFTER

Career Opportunities:

- Financial Manager
- Corporate Financial Consultant
- M&A Analyst
- Financial Risks Manager
- Financial advisor
- Financial institution employee
- Fintech employee
- Entrepreneurs interested in investing in the Fintech and Blockchain sector
- Manager of Bank Accounts
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

SYLLABUS

MODULE 1: STRATEGIC AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

- Corporate Strategy and Sustainability - 5 ECTS

Corporate and business strategy
International strategy
Economic and financial environment
Taxation and legal context
ESG in finance. Sustainable investment
Traditional Business Models versus Innovative Business Models
Business strategy, value proposition, and digital capabilities to transform the business. Digital Twin business models

- Financial engineering - 5 ECTS

Structuring-Modeling techniques for financial Engineering
Financial quantitative analysis
Cost of the money and the interest rate
Compounding and discounting
Binomial and the Black-Scholes Models
Mathematical finance and computational finance

MODULE 2: FINANCIAL REPORTING AND CONTROL

- Financial analysis and company’s valuation - 5 ECTS

Main financial statements
Consolidated financial statements
Reformulation and analysis of the PLS
Balance Sheet analysis
Working capital management
Ratio analysis
Financial diagnosis
Cost of capital and value creation
Valuation of companies based on multiples
Company valuation based on financial discount (dividend discount, free cash flow discount)

- Cost management and control - 5 ECTS

Relationship between cost accounting, financial accounting, and management accounting.
Activity based costing and activity-based management.
Cost structure for business models.
Relevant and irrelevant costs for decision making
Performance measurement
Management system and the Balanced scorecard. Financial perspective
Comprehensive dashboard (KPI’s dashboard)

MODULE 3: FINANCIAL MODELLING AND CORPORATE FINANCE

- Financial planning and cash management - 5 ECTS

Budgeting process
Functional, capital and master budgets
Financial modeling techniques
Cash Management
Cash pooling and inhouse banking

- Corporate finance and M&A - 5 ECTS

Project finance
Financial distress and restructuring models. M&A
Due Diligence. M&A
Legal aspects in restructuring process
Tax aspects in restructuring process
Internal funding
Long-term external financing (syndicated loan, debt issue, etc.)
Marketplaces and alternative funding
Venture capital, angel finance, venture debt

MODULE 4: RISK MANAGEMENT

- Investment and risk analysis - 5 ECTS

Valuation of Investment opportunities
Investment analysis techniques
Sustainable investment criteria
Operational, market, country risk
Modeling credit risk, credit score, credit rating
Structural credit risk model versus reduced-form credit risk model
Risk measurement: value at risk, earning at risk, expected short fall
Arbitrage and endogenous risk. Limits to Arbitrage
Financial and operational risk models
Variance and covariance. Standard deviation MODULE 5: FINANCIAL MARKETS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT

- Global markets and financial assets - 5 ECTS

The main financial markets.
Primary versus secondary market. IPO
Macroeconomic factors
Cost of the money and the interest rate
Players in the financial markets
Interbank market
Digital financial services
Fixed income assets
Variable income assets
Derivative instruments
Foreign exchange
Short-term asset optimization
Factoring and confirming

- Portfolio management - 5 ECTS

Modern Portfolio Theory
The risk-adjusted return measures
CAPM and Alternative pricing models: APT and multi-factor models
Black Litterman Model
Sharpe ratio
Dynamic asset allocation (quality-minus-junk, betting-against-beta, etc.)
Investment funds
Alternative investment funds
Pure models and hybrid models of automated asset management

MODULE 6: TRACK IN FINTECH

- Fintech Ecosystem - 2 ECTS

Fintech ecosystem: verticals
Digital financial services (neobanks, etc.)
Neobanks and Insurtech
Wealthtech
Payment tech: Stripe, Adyen and Square payment system

- Fintech Business Model - 3 ECTS

Recognize the potential for new technologies, infrastructure players and platforms
The new digital consumer
Market needs that fintech startups are trying to fill
Fintech start up
Legal aspects in Fintech
Digital identity and security in financial transactions

- Digital Tools in Finance - 2 ECTS

Design of platforms and applications for financial services (UX/UI)
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Big data and artificial intelligence
Information exploitation systems: Power BI, Jedox, Tableau, Qlik, Microstrategy, etc.

- Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies - 3 ECTS

Technological tools and Blockchain applications
The Blockchain revolution and its impact on Digital Transformation
Security in the blockchain environment
Cryptocurrencies and tokens
NFTs and Metaverse: opportunities and challenges of cryptofinance

MASTER'S THESIS 15 ECTS

It’s not just the research paper you need to do in order to get your master’s degree â€" it’s the right time and the right place for you to combine your academic experience with your professional ambition, personal vision and your creativity. It’s your chance to put everything you’ve been learning into practice and to work in order to get to where you want to be.