FINTECH AND INNOVATION
OVERVIEW
Technology has been transforming the finance industry, with the potential to disrupt traditional industry structure and practice. This unit introduces the main building blocks of FinTech (blockchain, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence) and how these technologies could provide transformative solutions to underlying finance problems (including economic and psychological issues) and reshape the finance industry with innovations. Cutting-edge cases will be used to illustrate the core concepts.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of the following units, you will be able to:
- Identify fundamental economic and psychological issues in the current financial system.
- Explore fundamental techniques in blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Work productively in a group to evaluate how major advances in blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence are applicable to finance problems.
- Analyse recent developments in FinTech and its impact in transforming the finance industry.
- Discover the risks arising from FinTech and understand the dynamics between the innovations and regulations.
FUNDAMENTAL
STUDIES