2018-19 Spring - CSIT6000H - Financial Technology

Course

Description

This course will give the MSc students new insights and solid understanding of disruptive innovation in FinTech (Financial Technology), InsurTech (Insurance Technology) and RegTech (Regulatory Technology) and prepare them for senior technology leadership positions in the banking, finance, IT audit, overnment/regulator, innovation and entrepreneurship areas. There will be practical case studies and lab sessions in the management and application of the underlying ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, ePayment, P2P lending, crowd funding, big data and risk analytics, time series databases, sentiment analysis tools, open-source business intelligence technology, quantitative finance and algorithmic trading tools, AI and machine learning robo-advisors/robo-traders/robo-analyzers in financial investment, GPU/FPGA, PLC, AI monitoring and reporting tools in AML (anti-money laundering)/KYC (know your clients)/CTF (counter-terrorism finance), cyber security and computer forensics to analyze the potential success, risk and failure factors in the past and present disruptive innovation, technology and the business models.
Course period1/02/1930/06/19
Course levelPG
Course formatLecture