Illustrative: capital flows between financial centres, between generated places

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Faculty of Finance and Economics

A shock reaches a balance sheet along a chain: water rises on a refinery's ground, a plant stops, a claim is filed, a reinsurance layer attaches, a yield curve steepens.

Departments
4
Disciplines
17
Courses open now
1
Nexus Standards taught
28
02Departments

Departments and their disciplines

Numbered as on the faculty figure above.

03Disciplines

Disciplines of the faculty

Each discipline once, in its department.

04Teaching model

The faculty's teaching model

The model every discipline of the faculty builds on, as a chain you can run: set its parameters, play its steps, read each citation.

05Maps

Build a twin of any place

Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow the faculty's subjects on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.

Houston and the Ship Channel: a flat plan of the faculty twin. Terrain 0 to 66 m; 30 power plants, 11,875 MW; 7 refineries and chemical works; 2 port land; 29 named works; 154 named industrial sites; Surface water extent, OPERA DSWx (HLS): read live when the 3D twin opens; Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: read live when the 3D twin opens. Contours every 10 metres from the elevation grid; power plants as marks; refineries, terminals and industrial sites as marks.
Houston and the Ship Channel, United States. Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the plants by capacity, the industrial points by kind and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
  • Terrain 0 to 66 m
  • 30 power plants, 11,875 MW
  • 7 refineries and chemical works
  • 2 port land
  • 29 named works
  • 154 named industrial sites
  • Surface water extent, OPERA DSWx (HLS): read live when the 3D twin opens
  • Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: read live when the 3D twin opens
Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Relief in the twin is exaggerated ×1.5 for legibility.

Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the plants by capacity, the industrial points by kind and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.

The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).

06Faculty figure

Departments, disciplines and courses

07Nexus Standards

Nexus Standards the faculty teaches toward

The Nexus Standards areas whose standards the faculty's disciplines teach toward, with the number of standards and disciplines in each.

08Frontiers

Where the field is moving

Emerging areas, the technologies changing practice and the bodies whose work sets the field's methods.

09What is changing now

What is changing now

The newest developments cited on the faculty's discipline pages, sources checked on 16 October 2026.

10Research hub

Research hub: papers, preprints and datasets

Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Faculty of Finance and Economics.

Search termsFinance and Economics; Banking and Financial Stability; Insurance and Actuarial Science; Financial Markets and Investment; Public Finance and Development EconomicsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Faculty of Finance and Economics.

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No source is enabled for live display on this site yet: the sources are listed for reference and none is queried. Once the publisher of record enables a source after its terms are reviewed, recent works are listed here. Metadata and links only: title, authors, venue, year, type, open-access status and licence as each source records them; works are listed for orientation, not reviewed or endorsed.

11Hub

Research and tools

Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.

The hub lists the newest research and preprints for 17 disciplines, each with its source and date. Open the research hub

Banking and credit risk, Financial stability and systemic financial risk, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial crime and fraud, Operational resilience and ICT risk in finance, Insurance, reinsurance and protection gaps, Actuarial science, Disaster risk finance, Market, liquidity and treasury risk, Asset management, private markets and institutional investors, Payments, market infrastructure and fintech, Climate and nature financial risk, Nature and biodiversity finance, Public finance and sovereign debt, Development finance, Economic development and macroeconomic shocks, Macroeconomics of climate and disasters

12Flagship programmes

Where to start, and where it leads

The faculty's entry course, then its flagship pathways and the Academy flagship in Nexus-Based Risk Management.

13Courses

Courses of the faculty

Courses whose primary discipline is in this faculty.

14Research and practice

Where these subjects are practised

15Labs

Labs used in the faculty's courses

LabWhat you do in itCourses using it
Exposure labOverlay people and assets with hazard footprints5
Network labBuild dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades2
Trigger labSet forecast thresholds, pre-agreed actions and messages2
Map labRead hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps2
16Across faculties

Nexus programmes that span faculties

Each programme joins disciplines from more than one faculty under an institute of the Academy, and appears on every faculty it spans.

18Across the ecosystem

Across the ecosystem

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