Fintech: Overview of the Fintech Sector
This course explores recent tech advancements transforming financial services in saving, investing, borrowing, and transacting.
This course explores recent tech advancements transforming financial services in saving, investing, borrowing, and transacting.
This introductory fintech course explores cutting-edge technological innovations revolutionizing the financial services industry. Structured in three comprehensive modules, the course begins by examining how emerging technologies are reshaping financial landscapes. You'll learn how financial institutions create value through cost reduction, increased transparency, enhanced competition, network effects, economies of scale, and reduced information asymmetry. The course introduces three transformative technologies—blockchain, machine learning, and Internet-of-Things—that are driving disruption in finance. The second module focuses on regulatory frameworks governing financial and fintech firms, providing insights into the complex regulatory environment in the United States and recent global initiatives for fintech regulation. You'll examine Open Banking developments in Europe and evaluate the benefits of regulatory sandboxes. The final module completes your overview through case studies and analysis of real-world applications, including an in-depth business case on Ant Financial. By course completion, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of the fintech landscape, preparing you for deeper exploration in subsequent certificate courses.
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What you'll learn
Learn how financial institutions create value and build competitive advantage
Understand how new technologies add value to financial products
Analyze how fintech firms navigate complex regulatory environments
Explore blockchain technology and its applications in financial services
Examine the role of machine learning in transforming financial decision-making
Investigate Open Banking initiatives and their market impact
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course delivers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly evolving fintech sector, exploring how technological innovations are transforming traditional financial services. The curriculum examines how financial institutions create value and build competitive advantages through emerging technologies. Students learn about the efficiency of financial markets and how fintech companies leverage reduced costs, increased transparency, enhanced competition, network effects, and economies of scale to disrupt established business models. The course provides detailed insights into three transformative technologies—blockchain, machine learning, and Internet-of-Things—and their applications in finance. A significant portion focuses on navigating the complex regulatory environment that fintech firms face, including regulatory frameworks in the United States, recent fintech regulation initiatives, and developments in Open Banking. The course concludes with practical case studies of leading fintech companies, including an in-depth analysis of Ant Financial, providing students with real-world applications of theoretical concepts.
Introduction to the Fintech Sector
Module 1
Financial Regulation
Module 2
The World of Fintech
Module 3
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4 Courses
Leading Expert in Corporate Finance and Financial Technology
Dr. Cesare Fracassi serves as Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Blockchain Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, where he combines expertise in corporate finance with innovative research in financial technology. After completing his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and PhD in Finance from UCLA Anderson, he has established himself as a highly cited researcher with over 3,800 citations. His work spans multiple areas including corporate governance, credit rating agencies, and the impact of social networks on financial decision-making. As Director of the Fintech Research Lab and through his groundbreaking research on data autonomy and corporate culture, he continues to advance understanding of how social connections and technology influence financial policies. His expertise particularly shines in analyzing how social networks affect corporate decision-making, demonstrated through his influential work on external networking and internal firm governance. Through his teaching of fintech, corporate finance, and valuation across multiple programs and his visiting professorship at Wharton, he helps bridge theoretical research with practical applications while maintaining active investigation of emerging financial technologies. Before entering academia, he gained practical experience as a strategic management consultant at Booz Allen and Roland Berger in Italy and as an intern at the United Nations in New York.
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