C3) NOVA Financial Markets

NOVA Financial Markets

About Us

The NOVA Financial Markets Knowledge Centre is dedicated to the study of the financial markets – banking, capital and insurance, with particular focus on value creation, that is, a concern to produce a positive impact on society.

Objectives

In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”), with a special focus on SDG1 – Eradication of Poverty, SDG4 – Education and SDG16 – Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions, the NOVA Financial Markets Knowledge Centre has the following objectives:

To develop research in the area of financial markets – banking, capital and insurance, involving students from the faculty, in particular students from the Master’s Degree in Law and Financial Markets, the PhD in Law and researchers in general, but not only.
To keep abreast of developments in the markets and their regulations and disseminate these through regular talks open to the public (via podcasts, open classes, short talks, among others).
To monitor developments in the banking union, the capital markets union and the fiscal union, in the European context of economic and monetary union, their policies and regulations, to contribute to their analysis and to disseminate these through regular talks open to the public (via, among others, podcasts, open classes, short talks, among others).
To help bring society and the financial markets closer together, with a view to protecting consumers.
To contribute, through the research carried out, to the development of guidelines and best practice in the field of financial markets in collaboration with the competent authorities and to create a basis for the provision of legal consultancy services in this area.

Activities and funding

The Centre’s activity plan will be proposed annually by the Centre’s Board and discussed with its members at a meeting in October.

In the Centre’s first year of operation, its programme will consist of:

An opening session for the Centre;
Bi-monthly meetings with the members of the Centre to monitor and discuss their research;
The development of at least two sessions/conversations on relevant and current topics in the financial markets;
Signing a protocol with the “Há Direito” association with a view to the Centre collaborating in the Association’s activity of disseminating financial markets law;
Development of the research project “K&C Requirements of Bank Staff in the MCD”.