FAE Financial Services Study Notes
FAE Financial Services is an elective paper of the Final Admitting Examination, designed for candidates working in banking, insurance, investment, or financial regulation.
What's Included
These notes cover the FAE Financial Services elective in full — the Irish financial services landscape, investment funds, international trade and risk management, business lending, and credit risk. Written around the exam and the specific application of concepts in a regulated financial services context.
- Covers the full FAE Financial Services syllabus including funds, lending, trade, regulation, and risk
- Written for the exam — focused on application in a professional financial services context
- Covers the regulatory framework as examined, including relevant EU and Irish requirements
- Structured to address both technical content and professional judgement questions
- Professionally printed study notes, shipped with tracked delivery
What's Covered
The notes cover the full FAE Financial Services syllabus, organised by topic area.
International Financial Services in Ireland
- Financial Services Arena in Ireland Overview
- Business Models in Ireland's Financial Services Industry
- The Role and Responsibilities of the ECB & CBI
- Ireland for Finance Plan
- Regulatory Changes
- Digital and Fintechs in Ireland
- Ireland as the Global Leader in Aviation Finance
- Ireland as a Sustainable Finance Centre of Excellence
International Investment Funds
- Investment Funds Overview
- AIFs, ETFs, MMFs
- Financial Markets & Instruments
- Central Bank of Ireland
- Risk Management
- Fund Types & Structuring Options
- Fund Servicing & Passporting
- Regulatory Financial Institutions
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Funds and ESG
- UCITS, PRIIPS
- Setting Up & Terminating a Fund
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Outsourcing in the Funds Industry
International Trade & Risk Management
- International Trade Overview
- Documentary Collections
- Settlement in International Transactions
- Centralised Cash Management
- Terms of Payment
- Bill of Exchange
- Cash Management Services
- FX, Interest, Commodity & Inflation Risk Management
- Facilitating Trade
- Documentary Credits
- Cash and Marketable Securities
- Pricing Formulas
- Export Finance & ECI
Business Lending — Risk Management
- The Canons of Lending
- Property Lending
- Debt Covenants
- Deal Documentation in Lending Transactions
- Risk Management Framework (RMF)
- The Credit Life Cycle
- Stress Testing in Risk Management
- Main Credit Risks Impacting Proposals
- Financial Statements & Borrower Repayment Capacity
- Credit Risk Management
- Security in Lending
- Risk Appetite Frameworks in Banks (RAF)
- The 17 Basel Principles
- Portfolio Credit Management
- Peer Group Analysis
- Types of Debt Finance
- Term Sheets in Lending Transactions
- External Credit Ratings
- ESG in Credit Risk Evaluation
- Credit Models, Grading & Scoring
- End-to-End Credit Processes
- Banks in the Era of Digitalisation and AI
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FS can get overwhelming fast because there is such a wide range of material in it. These notes helped me bring it all together, especially around funds, regulation, lending, credit risk and AML. I stopped feeling like I was revising separate mini-subjects and started seeing how it all fits.
I found these really helpful because they made a specialist elective feel far more approachable. The topics can sound very dense at first, but the notes explained them in a way that felt clear and relevant.
For me, the value was that the notes made the subject feel more real. They were not just giving definitions, they helped me understand the environment the industry operates in and why certain issues matter.
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