Fintech: Latest Trends and DigitalStrategies

FinTech is the integration of financial services and technology to serve customer's changing needs. In this course students will study, learn, ideate, strategize and implement solutions for gaps left by existing financial institutions using FinTech. Topics include latest trends, digital transformation strategies, strategic frameworks including design thinking and lean-agile frameworks, technologies that are reshaping finance like blockchain, crypto currencies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, evaluating and analyzing startups and tech organizations that disrupted finance, regulatory aspects among others. FinTech is an emerging field seeking to improve and automate the financial industry. Students will study the latest trends and digital transformation strategies for building faster and fairer FinTech. Topics include crypto-currencies and blockchain, the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the disruption of enterprise banking, lending, and crowdfunding, regulations, and robo-advisors. Students will also learn how startup companies are disrupting enterprise banking and how banks are innovating to keep up with the direction in financial services.