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Course Overview
Gain the digital edge in financial crime and compliance.
This executive master’s degree offered by the University of Manchester is exclusively available to those who hold an ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma.
- Gain leading and up-to-date knowledge – benefit from the reputation of the University’s Department of Criminology and be at the forefront of financial crime and fraud research
- Transform your business operations – enhance your knowledge and turn science into practice to drive corporate strategy, policy and processes
- Build a global network – meet your international peers, academics and subject experts
Course Content
- Develop a theoretical and conceptual toolkit for determining the most plausible explanations for risk, threats and transgressions, inside and outside your business
- Recognise the complexity and multiplex nature of the business world, within which regulatory and governance problems, and financial crime risks, occur
- Gain knowledge of how to interact with regulators and enforcement authorities, including information sharing and self-reporting of internal failures
- Acquire advanced-level knowledge on business risks and opportunities related to digital trust and digital security
- Obtain expertise on the range and nature of insider and outsider financial crime risks in relation to people, technologies, data and information, and be able to develop strategies for mitigation and development for specific cyber-security incidents
Benefits
- Apply concepts, ideas and theories related to financial crime and compliance to ‘real-world’ practical contexts related to your own workplace or sector.
- Critically assess the financial crime, compliance and security-related opportunities and risks presented by various existing and emerging digital technologies.
- Formulate original research questions and design a research project, utilising relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks.
- Design and conduct research on financial crime, compliance or governance-related issues relevant to their workplace practice.
Prerequisites
This course is exclusively available to those who already hold an ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma.
Assessment
The assessments involve a mixture of written coursework (e.g., short essays or reflective contributions), recorded presentations (e.g., using PowerPoint), and online tasks (i.e., quizzes, short reflections and analyses on the content of the weekly session).
Feedback on formative and summative assessments will be provided in written form with optional one-to-one meetings with the teaching staff.
The project is flexible, allowing you to choose between two 60-credit dissertation options. You can indicate which dissertation option you'd like to select during your Unit 3 studies.
Option A - long dissertation (10,000-12,000-word independent thesis)
Option B - short dissertation (6,000-8,000-word thesis alongside two short modules on Research Skills in Practice, available via the online learning environment)
You will be allocated supervisors for your dissertation projects and will have an opportunity to have at least two one-to-one meetings.
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