Over the past decade emerging technologies, paired with massive changes in regulations, have driven an unprecedented transformation of finance around the world. This process is happening more rapidly in China and Asia than anywhere else. This course is designed to explore FinTech fundamentals and help make sense of this wave of change as it happens.
New players such as start-ups and technology firms are challenging traditional players in finance, bringing democratization, inclusion and disruption.Companies engaged in social media, e-commerce, and telecommunications, as well as, companies and start-ups with large customer data pools, creative energies, and technical capacities, have brought competition to the existing financial infrastructure and are remaking the industry.
Understand fintech technology and how it can solve business problems.
Understand blockchain technology and how it can solve business problems.
Explain the technologies driving the advancement of fintech
Describe big data, its characteristics, structures and sources
Assess fintech payment solutions and their applications in addressing real world problems
Evaluate fintech wealth and investment management solutions
Innovation managers =C I Os and C D Os =I T strategists =Executive managers and experts in business administration =Individuals who would like to learn more about blockchain technology=Microfinance practitioners =M F I managers =Finance and I T consultants =donors • M N O’s =Retail and S M E banks =Fin Tech’s =Banking Regulators =Banking supervisors =G L C M =Fintech engagement or nearby
