Respond to change and fund your innovative business idea within the financial sector.
8 weeks, excluding
orientation
7–10 hours per week,
entirely online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
1
An understanding of the technologies disrupting finance, including blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data, and the skills to apply them to your context.
2
The ability to create solutions to long-standing financial challenges that your company has been facing.
3
The skills to identify and solve financial problems within emerging markets through the use of fintech.
4
A business strategy to develop and fund your fintech idea and launch your start-up within the growing fintech landscape.
Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:
MODULE 1 Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence: The Megatrends in Fintech
Discover the two megatrends that are shaping fintech today and in the next decade.
MODULE 2 Banks, Monetary Policy, and Cryptocurrencies
Understand financial intermediation, monetary policy, and how cryptocurrencies affect both.
MODULE 3 How Blockchain Technology Challenges Financial Intermediation
Understand when a business could benefit from blockchain technology.
MODULE 4 The Regulation–Innovation Nexus
Identify gaps in existing financial regulation as areas of potential fintech innovation.
MODULE 5 Opportunities Created by Big Data Within the Financial Industry
Explore the application of big data in the business world.
MODULE 6 The Robot Revolution: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Fintech
Discover the possibilities that AI provides to a business in pursuit of opportunities in the financial industry.
MODULE 7 Creating a Business Strategy for Industry Disruption
How to develop a convincing business strategy for your fintech business idea.
MODULE 8 Funding Your Disruptive Business Idea
Create a funding strategy for your disruptive business idea.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Allan Davids
Lecturer, School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, UCT
At UCT, Davids teaches econometrics, public economics, and policy analysis at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has also held the position of visiting researcher at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking. During his doctorate, Davis spent time as a visiting PhD student at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Beyond academia, Davids has industry experience as a data scientist, and is the co-founder of an edtech start-up which helps university graduates find employment opportunities.
"This course gave me my first glimpse into the world of decentralised finance, artificial intelligence, and big data. I found the concepts in the course fascinating and thought-provoking. The course content was of exceptional quality and went into great depth to explain the practical applications of blockchain, including how to start my own fintech business, and run a successful ICO."
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