2022-23 Spring - MFIT6000A - Capstone FinTech Cases and Analysis

Course

Description

This course aims to expose students to various “FinTech” and “TechFin” management issues in both financial services and technology companies from 2016 to present. Whether it is about resolving technology issues at financial services companies or addressing financial or regulatory issues confronting technology firms, this course will put students in the manager’s or protagonist’s role in gathering and analyzing information before ultimately making decisions. The course will utilize about 13 published cases from Harvard Business School, HKUST, UC-Berkeley and other institutions, totally about 300+ pages of reading material. The course will begin with case studies at traditional financial firms like Citibank, Goldman Sachs, VISA, Fidelity & Ping An before evolving to more non-traditional firms like Lufax, Ant Group and 360cubits etc. The financial or regulatory issues challenging technology companies like IBM, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba etc. will be investigated. The emerging categories of digital assets like crypto currencies (e.g. Bitcoin, ETH or XRP) in the context of alternative strategy in investment management will also be studied.
Course period1/02/2330/06/23
Course levelPG
Course formatLecture