
Explore what fintech is and how to upskill to stay future ready as the finance and accounting sector enters a revolution, with tools, technologies, and CFA curriculum insights.
Explore the fintech framework and how technology reshapes payments, money movement, savings, investments, and credit. Examine infrastructure and evolving laws and regulations to prepare for future readiness in finance technology.
Explore the four facets of fintech, including authentic money markets and infrastructure, and money’s evolution from coins to digital currency and mobile payments, with bitcoin, BBM, and the unbanked gap.
Explore how fintech markets evolve through social technology and mobile networks. Learn about prediction markets, collective intelligence, high-frequency trading, peer-to-peer funding, crowdfunding, and robo advisory shaping finance.
This lecture gives an introduction to this module and what learning outcomes the students can expect during the course of this module.
Map the fintech ecosystem by examining four players—large financial institutions, large non-financial firms, startups, and regulators—and show how talent, capital, regulation, and demand drive fintech innovation and regulatory sandboxes.
Explore sources and types of financial innovation, including open and closed fintech approaches. Compare incremental and radical innovation, and assess consumer problems as the prerequisite.
Explore approaches to innovation in financial services, contrasting open and closed models and how banks partner with fintechs to meet disruption. Compare incremental and disruptive investments with UBS's accelerator example.
Explore how crypto currencies transform money through decentralized, borderless blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum, with mining, fixed supply, and smart contracts driving digital payments.
Discover how traditional financial markets and marketplaces are evolving under fintech disruption, driven by artificial intelligence, big data, robo-advisory, and blockchain, reshaping asset management and funding.
Explore how marketplaces evolve from traditional and online models to fintech funding and lending innovations, including peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, equity-based funding, ICOs, and tokenized assets, with risk, regulation, and inclusion.
Explore future funding and lending in fintech, highlighting partnerships between banks and alternative channels, regulatory developments, blockchain and big data, and clearer, more transparent lending.
Explore how legacy financial infrastructures hinder agility and security, and how innovations like open banking, cloud, cybersecurity, and big data enable transparent governance and improved customer personalization.
Explore how fintech innovations in infrastructure—digital networks, cloud, IoT, big data, AI, and blockchain—reshape financial inclusion, security, and regulation through mobile platforms and smart contracts.
Understand how regulatory technology, or regtech, enhances monitoring, compliance, and reporting in financial services. Explore how insurance and prop tech use digital innovations within fintech to transform their sectors.
Explore regulatory technology and its role in automating compliance, using ai, data analytics, blockchain, and automated reporting to meet evolving regulation in fintech.
Explore how insurtech drives innovation with AI, blockchain, data privacy, and cybersecurity in insurance. See how digital claims, automated underwriting, personalized premiums, and IoT-enabled health data reshape customer engagement.
Trace the evolution of prop tech from property 1.0 to 3.0 and explore how smart buildings, virtual reality, and data-driven tools transform residential, commercial, and agricultural real estate.
Explore the latest and future trends in fintech, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Web 3.0, and automation, and examine their potential to transform financial services.
Explore how quantum computing uses cubits in superposition to test all solutions in parallel, offering exponential speedups and transforming finance through two-factor authentication risks, security, blockchain, and post-quantum considerations.
Discover what artificial intelligence is, its variations such as machine learning and deep learning, and how neural networks influence trends from narrow AI to artificial general and artificial super intelligence.
Discover how robotic process automation enhances business by reducing costs, improving throughput and accuracy, and enabling humans to collaborate with machines rather than replace them.
Explore the Gartner hype cycle and how emerging technologies move toward the plateau of productivity in finance. Highlight potential futures like quantum computing, biometric technologies, and smart contracts.
FinTech is an ecosystem supported by disruptive technology used to make banking and financial services more accessible, faster and cost-effective. The FinTech revolution is rapidly transforming the financial industry with disruptive innovations. The use of digital technologies is the norm, and together with regulatory and market changes it is creating a revolution.
Taking this course will help the participants understand these latest trends and their impact on the Financial services industry and get future ready