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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Fintech

  • Impact of the Fintech industry
  • Market dynamics: Winners and losers

Sector Overview

  • Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
  • Financial advisory services
  • P2P lending models
  • Social credit and the financialization of the economy

Industry Case Study

Evaluating Your Position on the Fintech Scale

Formulating a Business Strategy

Conducting an Organizational Readiness Assessment

Key Technical Innovations in the Finance Sector

  • Blockchain, AI, and Security

Developing a Technology Strategy

Blockchain: Leveraging the "Digital Ledger" for Organizational Value

  • Demystifying Blockchain
  • Insights from Bitcoin
  • Implementing a Blockchain strategy
    • Team composition
    • Mapping transactions to the blockchain

AI: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

  • Machine learning, natural language processing (text and speech), computer vision, and robotics
  • Utilizing available resources
    • Social media APIs
  • Creating a trading bot

Online Security: Cybersecurity for Finance

  • Revisiting traditional cybersecurity definitions
  • Implementing compliance plans and training business leaders
    • Team building

Ethical Implications and Privacy

  • Comparative privacy approaches: Chinese, European, and American
  • Anti-money laundering laws and their implications
  • Corporate social responsibility in an age of transparency

Synthesis

  • Rejecting "one-size-fits-all" and "all-or-nothing" mindsets
  • Adopting a step-by-step approach

Team Communication and Managerial Alignment

  • Engaging managers and leaders
  • Collaborating with engineers and data scientists

Closing Remarks

Requirements

  • Familiarity with the financial sector.
  • A commitment or mandate to explore new technologies relevant to finance.

Target Audience

  • Strategists in the financial industry.
  • Technology professionals in the financial industry.
  • Stakeholders within financial institutions.
  • Consultants and business analysts.

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