Objective
This Specialization is intended for finance professional who are seeking to develop skills and understanding of FinTech. Through these four courses, you will cover FinTech foundations and overview, FinTech security and regulation (RegTech), FinTech risk management and FinTech disruptive innovation: implications to society, which will prepare you to become more confident and persuasive in your ability to analyze and make decisions regarding how to react to these changes.
Key Benefits
You will earn a FinTech specialization certificate offered by the HKUST and Coursera after completing all four courses. You can add to your resume and Linkedin profile which can benefit to your career in finance industry. Also you will gain knowledge and insights in FinTech for your current and future career development in Finance industry.
Who is this Specialization for?
Everyone who is interested in FinTech and wants to learn more is welcome and will benefit from this course, and is useful for finance executives, government officers, entrepreneurs, consumers and investors of FinTech.
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FinTech: Finance Industry Transformation and Regulation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via Coursera Specialization
Overview
Syllabus
Course 1: FinTech Foundations and Overview
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Our primary goal is to help you to understand FinTech and to become more ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course "FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)" help you to ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: FinTech Risk Management
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course “FinTech Risk Management” help you understand risk management and ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course “FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society” help ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Our primary goal is to help you to understand FinTech and to become more ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course "FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)" help you to ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: FinTech Risk Management
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course “FinTech Risk Management” help you understand risk management and ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society
- Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This course “FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society” help ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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Our primary goal is to help you to understand FinTech and to become more confident and persuasive in your ability to analyze and make recommendations to executives within the finance industry regarding how to react to these changes. This FIRST MOOC ON FINTECH IN ASIA-PACIFIC offered by HKUST presents the insight of several professors from the top business school in Asia as well as perspectives from industry professionals. HKUST has been ranked for many years as the No.1 EMBA program in the world, as the number one Finance program in Asia, and as the top MBA program in Asia by multiple independent rating and review journals and surveys. This course "FinTech Foundations and Overview" offers the combined strengths of HKUST in Business, Finance, and Technology as one the world's leading academic institutions on an important area of technology and business innovations. For learners from outside Asia, this also gives an insight into changes happening in the most advanced FinTech markets of the world, since Asia leads worldwide in FinTech adoption and creative innovations.
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This course "FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech)" help you to understand RegTech and to become more confident and persuasive in your ability to analyze and make recommendations to executives within the finance industry regarding how to react to these changes, e.g. Regulations to cryptocurrencies like BitCoin & Initial Coin Offering (ICO). It presents the views of several professors from the top business school in Asia as well as perspectives from industry professionals. You will learn about how FinTech and RegTech disrupt and transform finance industry, such as challenges in protecting data and security with digital forensics, risk management and corporate governance in banking industry in terms of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML), and how governments in different countries take initiatives in FinTech and RegTech.
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This course “FinTech Risk Management” help you understand risk management and corporate governance in finance industry with the disruption by FinTech and RegTech. You will become more confident to analyse and make recommendations to develop business strategies balancing the risks in operation, reputation and the stability of finance firms. You will learn about new challenges of compliance with financial requirements and government regulations and how you can deal with these changes, strategies in analysing FinTech risk and how operation risks increase in finance industry in this changing environment. As tech firms are now becoming more like finance firms such as Alibaba, Apple, and Tencent etc., you will learn about the importance of IT compliance and assurance and practical skills in dealing with these changes.
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This course “FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society” help you understand how disruptive innovations create opportunity in finance industry and its impact to society especially your career. You would be able to examine and analyse how FinTech innovations would affect companies that relates to FinTech services and how it might affect your career in finance. You will learn about how peer to peer lending disrupt finance industry in different countries, the diversity of impact by FinTech in the comparison of East vs West, Big firms vs Small firms, and different generations etc., how to predict FinTech trends in different markets, and finally what you should do to pursue your career and secure your position in FinTech industry.
Taught by
Theodore Henry King CLARK and Garvin Percy DIAS
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Reviews
5.0 rating, based on 2 Class Central reviews
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Great course indeed. It worth it every minute. I've learned so much about FinTech in general, and the financial sector in APAC region. Professor Clark is a great teacher. Can't wait to continue with the next one.
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The course is excellent for knowing the risk aspects of FinTech business. It also covers how to manages the risks involved in FinTech.
