Fintech: A Practical Introduction for Managers Training Course

Introduction to Fintech

• The impact of Fintech on the industry
• Identifying market winners and losers

Sector Overview

• Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
• Financial advisory services
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending
• Social credit systems and the financialisation of the economy

Industry Case Study

Assessing Your Position on the Fintech Scale

Defining a Business Strategy

Conducting an Organisational Readiness Assessment

Key Technical Innovations in the Finance Sector

• Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Security

Defining a Technology Strategy

Blockchain: Utilising the "Digital Ledger" for Organisational Benefit

• Demystifying Blockchain technology
• Key lessons derived from Bitcoin
• Implementing a Blockchain strategy
  • Assembling the team
  • Mapping transaction flows onto the blockchain

AI: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• Machine learning, natural language processing (text and speech), computer vision, and robotics
• Leveraging available resources
  • Social media APIs
• Developing a trading bot

Online Security: Enhancing Financial Security

• Revisiting traditional definitions of cyber-security
• Implementing compliance plans and training business leaders
  • Building the security team

Ethical Implications and Privacy

• Comparative approaches to privacy in China, Europe, and the USA
• Anti-money laundering regulations and their organisational implications
• Corporate social responsibility in an era of extreme transparency

Synthesising the Concepts

• The necessity of bespoke solutions over "one-size-fits-all" or "all-or-nothing" approaches
• Adopting a step-by-step implementation methodology

Team Communication and Securing Managerial Buy-in

• Fostering dialogue with managers and leaders
• Engaging engineers and data scientists

Closing Remarks