
Blockchain and smart contracts are emerging, so correct structuring matters to avoid faulty outcomes, while cyber security risks, evolving regulation, and Ethereum gas costs affect audits and costs.
Blockchain modernizes the asset lifecycle by digitizing actions and investor interactions on a source of truth, while smart contracts reduce human error and costs in dividend management and proxy voting.
Explore how peer-to-peer transfers work, their challenges and risks, and how blockchain and smart contracts enable faster, cheaper, more secure global payments via digital wallets and fiat money or cryptocurrency.
Explore how blockchain and smart contracts streamline insurance, speeding onboarding, premiums, payments, and claims processing. See how cryptography ensures security and real-time data, with Lemonade Insurance as a case study.
Discover how anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing drive blockchain adoption. Learn how blockchain-powered ledgers enable private, secure sharing of customer information to speed investigations and strengthen compliance.
Learn how regulatory compliance shapes finance and how blockchain and smart contracts enable immutable data, automated audits, and transparent reporting to regulators across jurisdictions.
Explore how blockchain-powered banking platforms address unbanked and underbanked populations by enabling decentralized lending networks and fairer, transparent access to capital, including a Philippines case study.
Explore how cryptocurrency functions as a digital currency on the blockchain, is traded on exchanges, and is used for transactions, while volatility and government regulation shape its adoption.
Salt offers crypto-backed loans using your crypto as collateral, not your credit score, with KYC verification and funds issued as cash or stablecoins, returning assets upon repayment.
Explore how Her Majesty's Land Registry uses blockchain and smart contracts to tokenize property titles, enabling fractional ownership, secure trading, and transparent, automated real estate transactions on Ethereum.
The financial industry is being disrupted by the emerging use of Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts. If you are in the finance industry or work with those in finance it is imperative that you have an understanding of what is happening now and in the near future to better position yourself in your career and recognize opportunities for career enhancement.
Through foundational learning, deep dive into technology application across many industry segments, and leveraging real world case studies that are happening now you will become an expert in this area and better position yourself for success either as an individual contributor or if you are in a leadership role.
Please note that the course is not a:
Cryptocurrency investing course: Although it can help you to better understand the underlying technology and real world use that can help any investor.
Coding course: Although if you code or work in tech and/or FinTech then this course can really help you with a better end use understanding and stimulate thoughts around future opportunities.
In the course you will learn all about:
Foundational Principles Of Blockchain Technology And Smart Contracts.
The Universal And Finance Industry Specific Benefits Of Blockchain Technology And Smart Contracts.
How Blockchain Technology And Smart Contracts Can Be Applied In A Variety Of Industry Segments
Asset Management
Financial Product Distribution
Financial Product Asset Lifecycle
Payments
P2P Transfers
Clearance & Settlement
Know Your Customer (KYC) & Identity
Data Security And Transparency
Trade Finance
Insurance
Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorist Financing
Regulatory Compliance
VC & Entrepreneur Fundraising
Credit & Loans
The Unbanked
Currency
NFT: Non-Fungible Tokens
Real World Case Studies That Are Happening Today From A Variety Of Financial Organizations Such As:
Santander: Cross-Border Payments
Bloom: Credit Scoring and Identity
SALT: Lending Backed By Crypto
Mata Capital: Asset Management
HMLR: Property Title
Lemonade: Low-Cost Insurance
Law Coin: Legal Claim Investing
We Trade: International Trade Consortium
i2i: Unbanked In The Philippines
At the end of the course you will become an expert in the strategy and tactics of applying emerging technology such as Blockchain and Smart Contracts.
Many thanks for your interest in the course and I look forward to seeing you in your first lesson!
-Steve B