Presentation

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 75

Group report

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 25

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<ul><li>Current state of the fintech ecosystem, near-term opportunities and long-term trends in fintech innovation   </li><li>Entrepreneurship in fintech  </li><li>Technologies that drive fintech disruption  </li><li>Emerging trends in fintech  </li><li>Fintech new products and services</li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

Self-directed - 

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International Monetary Fund (IMF).
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/02/09/sp020922-the-future-of-money-gearing-up-for-central-bank-digital-currency.

The future of money: gearing up for central bank digital currency.

 AI, Machine Learning, & Deep Learning Explained in 5 Minutes.

Payments Systems in the U.S. A Guide for the Payments Professional

Various newsletter including TechCrunch, Fintech Weekly, etc.   

What is RegTech?

Forbes Magazine.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/10/24/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-fintech-everyone-can-understand/?sh=4606c12b7d1e.

The Complete Beginner's Guide to FinTech Everyone Can Understand.

Bitcoin Explained: Discover How Bitcoin Works and Why It’s So Popular.

What is Cryptocurrency: Everything You Must Need to Know!.

 What is Fintech? Uses and Examples in 2020.

What is machine learning?

Still don't understand the blockchain? This explainer will help.

MBM274 - FINTECH: Technology Innovation in Finance

MBM274-PRD3-PER-ALV1

MBM274-PRD1-PER-ALV1

This module will be delivered primarily through lectures, in-class activities, and seminars with guest speakers from industry.   
You will also be expected to spend a significant amount of time in self-directed study. Self-directed learning hours are for independent and team study and account for the minimum amount of time you should spend studying independently. For example, carrying out subject research, practising and reflecting on techniques learned in class, reading widely around the subject to develop a deeper understanding.

FINTECH: Technology Innovation in Finance

Identify entrepreneurial opportunities in the fintech ecosystem.  

Skills

Assess potential of a given fintech company. 

Reflect on the complex interplays between technology, business and society.  

Values and attitudes

Develop the confidence to lead incumbents in responding to fintech disruption and cooperating with fintech.   

Analyse the current state of the fintech ecosystem, near-term opportunities and long-term trends in fintech innovation.  

Knowledge

Review the trade-offs including around privacy, inclusion, and diversity.   

Debate the relationships between individual freedoms, role of the government/state, and businesses.  

Lead a given fintech strategic development.   

Demonstrate confidence in identifying scope for fintech ventures.  

Evaluate emerging trends in fintech and the potential of technologies applied.  

Evaluate financial products and how they are being disrupted with modern technologies.  

Identify the potential of technologies in disrupting particular finance products and services. 