The general field of international banking may yield several project ideas. For example, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania describes its international banking courses as comparing and contrasting the actions of individual banking institutions across the globe. Students may study and empirically predict trends in international banking over a set amount of time through looking at international trends and variables.
At the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, MBA students learn about the ramifications of financial actions. A final-year project idea may include studying the outcomes of disclosure, or the information banks give to consumers and stakeholders.
Banks' roles in investments, especially on a global level, remains a fruitful field. For example, DePaul University's Center for Strategy, Execution and Valuation has many research fellows who focus on the role of investment. A student can use a case study where a bank invested in a variable, such as bonds, and the end result of such an investment. The project can examine why an investment failed or succeeded.
The social sciences have many methods of predicting human behavior, but so does business when it comes to interest rates. Students who are interested in the future of banking may want to focus on interest rates. A final project may deal with a case study or current market trends to predict how interest rates will change across global or national banking.