Group coursework

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Innovation and Digitization 
<ul><li>Financial Crisis, System Shock, Sharing Economy </li></ul>
<ul><li>Big Data, Computing Power Acceleration, Data Analytics </li></ul>
<ul><li>Impact: Transformation v. Disruption v. Game Changer </li></ul>
<ul><li>Developed Markets v. Emerging Markets, Mobile Phone, Underbanked </li></ul>
<ul><li>Adoption: Start-ups, Success Stories, Unicorns, Behemoths </li></ul>
<ul><li>Financial Innovation v. Fintech, Incremental v. Radical </li></ul>
 
Lecture 2: Ecosystem, Infrastructure, Sources for Innovation, Regulation 
<ul><li>Digital Wallet, API (Interoperability/Modularity), Platforms of Platforms, Cloud Computing </li></ul>
<ul><li>Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) </li></ul>
<ul><li>AI and Machine Learning (Statistical Modelling, Data Science, Deep Learning) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Text/Voice Recognition, Deep Learning, Virtual Reality &amp; Augmented Reality, Natural Language Processing (NLP), ChatBots </li></ul>
<ul><li>Identity (Biometrics), Security (Cyber), Privacy (GDPR) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Cryptography, DLT and Blockchain, Proof of Existence, Smart Contracts (Automated Transactions) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Open Source, Closed Source, PaaS, SaaS </li></ul>
<ul><li>PSD2, Digital/Challenger Bank, Cashless World, RegTech,  Fraud/Market Manipulation Prevention, Sandboxes/Jurisdiction Competition </li></ul>
<ul><li>AML/KYC, Settlements </li></ul>
 
Lecture 3: Finance - Financial Innovation, Fintech, Stakeholders 
<ul><li>Banking and Fintech Interaction, Banking as a Service (BaaS), Platform Banking </li></ul>
<ul><li>Digital Currencies, Cryptocurrencies/Bitcoin, Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Open Banking, Mobile Banking </li></ul>
<ul><li>Digital Payments, Digital Money </li></ul>
<ul><li>Omnibus/Pool accounts </li></ul>
<ul><li>Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Platforms </li></ul>
<ul><li>Merchant Financing, E-Commerce Financing </li></ul>
<ul><li>Investments (Robo-Automated Advice/Crowd), Credit (P2P, Capital Raising) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Invoice Financing, Electronic Letter of Credit </li></ul>
<ul><li>Risk Management Tools, Behavioural Risk Management </li></ul>
 
Lecture 4: Trade - Online Marketplaces 
<ul><li>Asset Agnostic Digital Marketplaces (Equity, Debt, Commodity, Investment) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Online Multi Trading Facilities (MTFs) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Contracts For Difference (CFDs) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Bloomberg Terminal </li></ul>
<ul><li>Prediction Markets and Collective Intelligence, behavioral analytics, wisdom of crowds </li></ul>
<ul><li>Barter Platforms </li></ul>
<ul><li>Social Trading, HFT/algorithmic trading </li></ul>
<ul><li>Crowdfunding, P2P lending </li></ul>
<ul><li>Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), Security Token Offerings (STOs) </li></ul>
 
Lecture 5: Shipping / Energy- Supply Chain, Transport and Alternative Energy Applications 
<ul><li>Smart Ship/IoT, Smart Terminal/Automated Vehicles/Autonomous Transport </li></ul>
<ul><li>Blockchain Supply Chain, Tracking, Quality Assurance </li></ul>
<ul><li>Applications: Augmented Reality Maintenance Plan, Blockchain Messaging, Alternative Energy, Smart Grid, Blockchain Grid, Energy Storage, 3D Printing, Routing as a Service (RaaS), Supply Chain Finance, Shipping Platforms, Amazon </li></ul>
<ul><li>Online Supply Chain Financing </li></ul>
<ul><li>Insuretech / Legaltech </li></ul>
<ul><li>Back Office Automation, legacy systems </li></ul>
 
Lecture 6: The Future 
<ul><li>Web 3.0, Quantum Computing </li></ul>
<ul><li>Ethics, Smart Human, Smart City, Street Technology </li></ul>
<ul><li>Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Labs/Hackathons, Incubators/Accelerators/VCs, Grants </li></ul>
<ul><li>I4 Career </li></ul>
<ul><li>DLT, Instant Payments, Smart Contracts, IoT, 5G, AI: The Matrix? </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 - 

In-Person - 

Directed Asynchronous - 

Fintech is rebuilding capital markets, from AI to crowdfunding startups

Engineering a financial services infrastructure

The Pulse of Fintech 2018, Biannual global analysis of investment in fintech

How Blockchain can transform Global Trade Supply Chains

Capital Markets: Innovation and the Fintech Landscape

Future of fintech in capital markets

World Fintech Report 2018

Digitizing the First Mile: Technology and Shipping

Digital Human

Breaking blockchain open

Blockchain beyond the hype: What is the strategic business value

IBM blockchain foundation developer presentation

Hit Refresh

Blockchain Innovation in Europe, the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum paper

Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Unlocking Blockchain: Embracing new technologies to drive efficiency and empower the citizen

The FinTech Book

Why data culture matters

Blockchain Investment Trends in Review

Fintech decoded: The capital markets infrastructure opportunity

Sources (including text, multimedia, interactive) 

Lectures will be accompanied with up-to-date links to further reading, including publications from:
 
- Big Four Research/White Papers 

- AAA + IBM White Papers 

- McKinsey & Partners 

- Central Banks and Regulators White Papers 

- World Economic Forum Publications 

- CB Insights articles/reports 

- Business Insider articles/papers 

- The Finanser articles 

- Finextra, Daily Fintech, Finovate articles 

- The Fintech Times articles 

- FT, Economist, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek technology specials 

- Digital News Networks multimedia bulletins 

- Conference/TEDx presentations 

- Medium 

SMM393 - Fintech: Technologies and Disruptions

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This module will be taught primarily through lectures and will also require a significant number of ours of independent study.

Contact hours are designed to be flexible and are delivered using a variety of methods to help you learn in the most effective way. A proportion of the core content may be delivered online and additional support materials and content will also be made available through Moodle.

Fintech: Technologies and Disruptions

Formulate business propositions using a common vocabulary to communicate with market participants.  Discriminate between a good idea and solving a problem. 

Skills

Assess current market practices in finance, trade, energy and shipping and demonstrate how they can be transformed through innovation, digitization, data analytics, and automation.   

Knowledge

Debate the need for inclusion and the effects of sharing economy.   

Envision the impact of future technologies in the industry of interest.  

Evaluate available technologies, infrastructure and the value of collaboration with regulation.   

Appreciate that fintech is a level playfield industry that can transform centuries’ old practices. 

Values and attitudes

Utilize toolkits for combining technologies to initiate projects that exploit these opportunities; 

Compare and contrast various available applications and assess their effectiveness in improving management practices. 

Identify stakeholders in fintech and their role in the ecosystem.   

Appreciate the potential of fintech to disrupt market practices in energy, shipping, trade, and finance. 

Discuss the bottlenecks in antiquated processes and identify opportunities for disruption;  