Fintech
Create, disrupt, and innovate in the fast-paced world of finance.
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- Enrollment:
- Open Enrollment
- Length:
- 8 weeks
Upcoming Dates
December Start
Students may register up to 7 days after the course start.
Gain an advantage in the rapidly evolving financial industry by learning the fundamentals of fintech.
Over eight weeks, our Fintech course will focus on applying fintech fundamentals to different areas, including risk modeling and blockchain. You will discover the impact of fintech from multiple perspectives—investor, corporate, and consumer—and learn about the regulations governing it.
Designed For
Designed for financial analysts and other professionals who would like to learn more about fintech and how it is shaping the finance industry.
Learning Objectives to Become a Fintech Expert
Fintech is a highly practical course that will increase your knowledge of modern finance through real-world examples. You will learn about the challenges inherent in fintech, the opportunities it presents, and the regulations that govern it, emerging with new ways to conduct your business and support your customers.
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Describe the digital transformation of the financial services sector.
- Advocate for fintech technologies and their disruptive power.
- Increase your employability in a rapidly expanding field.
- Implement real-world fintech innovations in your working environment.
- Earn a credential certifying completion from the University of Chicago and become part of the UChicago network.
What insights are necessary to understand fintech?
Learn how fintech is transforming the world of finance.
Register NowFintech Curriculum
You will learn to:
- Navigate fintech fundamentals and their application.
- Identify quantitative and qualitative approaches to finance frameworks.
- Describe how and why fintech can help customers from a global and technical standpoint.
- Examine security measures required to ensure fintech innovations protect customers and financial institutions.
Online Format Features
- Self-paced interactive learning modules with a variety of engaging learning activities, assignments, and resources.
- Live sessions that bring you, your peers, and your instructor together to learn collaboratively about the current state of the field, engage with real-world problems, and explore authentic solutions.
- Continuous support from your instructional assistant, who will accompany you on your journey through the content, answer your questions, and provide feedback on your work.
Weekly Course Schedule
Learn about fintech applications and best practices.
Explore about risk modeling, financial ratios, time series, and other types of financial analysis.
Learn about the role of banking, technological change and financial innovation, market microstructure, profitability, net interest margin, sensitivity to interest volatility, risk and supervision, and core activities such as transformation, intermediation, and payment.
Explore the risks of digital investment, big data and key technologies, fintech's impact on the banking sector, and the decentralization of financial institutions.
Examine topics such as the differences between peer-to-peer and traditional funding, the risks and benefits of using peer-to-peer funding, investors/borrowers, and raising capital.
Learn how fintech is changing the customer experience and gain insight into big data and key technologies. Explore crowdfunding, platforms, usage, and the risks involved in venture capital.
Become familiar with the scope of fintech regulations and examine the most relevant. Consider the implications of financial crises and economic policy, as well as data privacy concerns and cybersecurity.
Survey the current state of regulations in fintech, the effect of AI and ML on fintech regulation, IoT, fintech giants, and the future landscape.
Earn a Credential in Fintech
After successful completion of this course, participants will receive credentials certified by the University of Chicago including a digital badge to recognize their achievement.
Meet your instructor
Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.
Sourav Ghosh
Vice President at an Investment Bank
Sourav Ghosh has built and deployed low-latency, high-throughput automated trading systems across asset classes for trading exchanges worldwide. He specializes in statistical arbitrage market-making and pairs trading strategies for the most liquid global futures contracts. He currently serves as a...
Career outlook
Financial technology, used to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services, has exploded since the advent of the smartphone. By incorporating new technologies into their services, companies can cut down on operational costs and gain a competitive edge. Consumers have come to expect these reduced costs, reflected in fintech’s high global adoption rate. As banks and firms endeavor to keep up with and invest in technology-based solutions, the global fintech industry presents ever-expanding career opportunities in cybersecurity, investment risk analysis, and market evaluation. The fintech field is expanding rapidly and needs innovators, thought leaders, decision-makers, and high achievers from diverse backgrounds, including software development, finance, and marketing.
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Potential Job Titles for Professionals in the Fintech Space
- App Developer
- Blockchain Developer
- Compliance Expert
- Cybersecurity Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Financial or Business Analyst
- Product Manager
- Quantitative Analyst
How Do I Get Started?
- Complete the form on the registration page.
- Pay the tuition fee through our secure gateway.
- Receive a welcome email with your login information for the virtual campus.
- Gain access to the course content prior to the start date.