Raising Capital and Financial Technologies

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This course covers capital raising by firms—traditional methods as well as new market disruptions through financial innovations and financial technologies. Topics to be covered in this course include the role of financial intermediaries—such as commercial banks and investment banks—in the capital raising process, the decision to go public, bank debt, public debt markets, securitization, peer-to-peer lending, rewards based and equity based crowdfunding, digital footprints and other recent developments in financing. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students. Prerequisite: Finance 646 (Corporate Finance) or Finance 525F, taken in advance of or in parallel to this course, is necessary for enrollment. Students who have not taken either of these courses, but who have a depth of experience working in corporate finance, may request permission from the instructor to be enrolled.