Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to FinTech and Financial Innovation
Nottingham Business School and Nottingham Trent University
This online course explored basic concepts and practical application of financial technology (FinTech), digitisation and innovation. The course covered topics including overview of the key aspects of FinTech, technologies and applications in FinTech, and FinTech and its impact on society and sustainability.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Professor Jim Devlin
Director of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Society
Nottingham Business School
Professor Alexander Brauneis
Professor of Finance and Innovation
Nottingham Trent University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the FinTech context and relevant definitions.
- Investigate the factors driving FinTech developments and the implications for both established and new financial organisations.
- Reflect on blockchain technologies and associated decentralised financial services, including crypto-currencies.
- Apply insights into how big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence continues to have a transformational impact on the financial services sector.
- Debate implications of FinTech and financial innovation for consumers and society.
Syllabus
- Introduction and orientation.
- Overview of the key aspects of FinTech.
- Applications of FinTech across the range of activities and services.
- Blockchain technology and its key applications in financial services and other sectors of the economy, including cryptocurrencies.
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and financial innovation.
- FinTech and its impact on society and sustainability.
Issued on 31st May 2023
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