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FintechNavigator Program
Launch your career in Fintechwith globally renowned university, Ecole Polytechnique Fe’de’rale De
Lausanne'40,000
(+ Applicable taxes)`Online Interactive
Course 10 Week
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Overview
The program, will explore four primary themes:
Develop a broad and deep understanding of what Fintech is and the radical impact it will have on the future of the financial system
Build the skills needed to thrive and advance in the rapidly-changing world of finance
Methods for framing and communicating your innovation concepts and pathways forcommercialization
Be in a position to seek funding from external angel or venture financing sources or their internalcorporate venturing board, and/or become capable of presenting themselves for new innovation roleswithin established organizations
Practice the major approaches to driving or adapting to change
Build your professional network
What you’ll learn:
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The financial services industry, once considered most resistant to disruption, is being rapidly transformed by technological innovations. Incumbents, start-ups, markets and regulators are looking to use machine learning, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and cryptographic methods to stay ahead of changing business trends.
Recognising the fact that new tools and platforms are disrupting the financial services landscape, Pearson has launched a new program on Fintech (financial technology), in collaboration with Ecole Polytechnique Fe’de’rale De Lausanne’, a leading global university which offers a global approach to education, with a focus on local perspectives. This will be a non-credit certificate program by the university.
Taught by industry and academic leaders David Shrier and Christopher Tucci, this program will equip participants with an understanding of key Fintech concepts, strategies and implications.
The Future of Money:Blockchain-based digital currencies like Bitcoin; the rise of novel barter platforms and how moneychanges when powered by a peer-to-peer transfer technology
The Future of Markets:Harnessing the wisdom of crowds with prediction markets; fraud in the age of flash crashes; new network-enabled markets such as peer-peer/crowdfunding; and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI)
The Future of Marketplaces:Exciting developments like the deconstruction of the marketplace stack; new payment platforms andtransactions that form the foundation of assets over IP; and how Blockchain, mobile platforms and digital currencies give access to financial services to those who previously didn’t have access to such services
Infrastructure and the novel challenges arising in the rapidly evolving world of future commerce:The next horizon of cyber security and the impact on innovation frontiers of regulation, such asAnti-Money Laundering and Know Your Client
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Created by the world’s-leading Fintech experts David Shrier, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland,Christopher Tucci and facilitated by a local instructor, participants will develop a broadand deep understanding of what Fintech is and the radical impact it will have on thefuture of the financial system.
Live Coaching Online hand holding and Q&A sessions will be held by local instructor to reinforce
understanding and provide ample time for queries.
By the Industry. For the Industry
Cutting Edge Curriculum
Apart from the latest research and academic inputs, this program offers a capstoneproject to ensure the highest degree of practical relevance. The program aims to providing participants with the tools to leverage the exciting and world-changing
opportunities offered by the rise of Fintech.
RANKING OF ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FE’DE’RALE DE LAUSANNE'
Engage | Network | ProgressPearson's Engage | Network | Progress Learner Journey helps participants not onlycomplete the Fintech Navigator Program but also empowers graduates to earn a returnon their tuition investment. This is done via industry relevant networking and careerprogression modules that connect the learning to employment or further study goals.
Program Benefits
#12
QS World University Ranking 2017/2018
Job Outlook
Program Vitals
Course Starts
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Time Commitment
Per WeekBlended, 10 Weeks
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Program Fee
+Applicable Taxes
` 40,000
Source: Nasscomm
India among the top 3countries in the world with
the highest number ofFintech start-ups
The Indian Fintech softwaremarket is forecasted totouch USD 2.4 billion by
2020 from a current USD 1.2billion, as per NASSCOM
Source: KPMG
Source: YesFintech
About 71% of Fintechs statelack of deep tech expertise as
a key impediment to theirgrowth
Source: Inc 42
According to NASSCOM, theIndian Fintech market is
expected to grow at a CAGRof 22% in the next five years
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Who should attend:
Financial Planning Analysts
Senior Finance Managers
Financial Accountants
Financial Associates
Finance Interns
Auditors
Senior Financial Analysts
Finance Administrators
Fintech Consultants
Programmers
System Architects
IT Project Managers
Why should you choose this program? Live online sessions will enable participants to network and work on course activities with the closesupport of local instructional facilitators to get the most out of the learning
Integrated chat and file sharing in the platform for participants to learn from their peers effectively
The Capstone project is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to approachpotential investors for their own Fintech business idea for funding
Course badges can be earned when learners meet certain criteria to improve engagement; badges earned will be included in the learner’s final course certificate
Participants will complete one module per week. Each module consists of several units and will take approximately 7 hours to complete. Within each unit participants will:
Watch 1 – 3 videos Read some key learning points from the videos Complete knowledge checks relating to the unit content Collaborate with peers on some scenario-based activities relating to the unit content Collaborate with peers on either a team activity or something related to the Capstone project
The program culminates with a Capstone project, giving learners the opportunity to produce a Fintechsolution to a real-life problem. A local instructor will assess the Capstone and learners will receivefeedback from them.
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Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction to Fintech
Module 2: Context of Financial Innovation
Module 3: Design Thinking
Module 4: The Origins and Future of Money
Module 5: The Future of Financial Transactions
Module 6: The Future of Infrastructure
Module 7: Fintech and Smart Cities
Module 8: The Future of Finance
Module 9: Learning Reflections
Module 10: Planning for Your Fintech Future
1: Courses
2: Live Coaching
Take questions from team members about course content, activities and assignmentsReview team activities and provide summary feedbackAssess the Capstone and learners will receive feedback from them
An instructor who understands local market realities will be available to guide learners including:
Vikash SinghVikash Singh has 19 years of experience working with leading financial institutions,big 4 accounting firms, management advisory firms and as a financial servicesregulator. He has demonstrated thought leadership across many areas includinginnovation best practices, financial risk management, bankruptcy regulations andoutsourcing of knowledge services.
He has been associated with the financial services sector as a practitioner, investor,and regulator. Some of his past experiences include digitization of bankingoperations and services, use of technology in financial well-being, global innovationbest practices and innovation challenges in emerging markets. Vikash is alsohands-on in creating investment proposals for ideas at different stages of maturity.Most recently, he has worked on the concept of Information Utilities (IUs) - which ismuch like a captive blockchain for Indian banking industry.
He has been a practicing industry faculty in executive programs of leadinginternational institutions such as Cornell University and London School of Economics (LSE).
Vikash has completed his M.B.A in Finance and Marketing and is a CharteredFinancial Analyst (CFA) from ICFAI and is also a qualified Insolvency Professionalunder Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016.
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Coach Profile:
3: Capstone Project
There will be a single point of contact to help learner’s progress through the program.This will include:
Assignment due date reminders
Facilitate orientation and support live online meetings and speaker series
Nudges if deadlines are missed
The Capstone project is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to be able tostart approaching potential investors with their own Fintech business idea for funding. The idea for the project could be for their own start-up company or as a new project for the current company.
During the course participants will work, first individually, and then in teams, to complete severalassignments which form a part of a bigger Capstone project. The project will eventually provide themwith a business model that they can later help them crowd source or pitch their venture to VCs.
4: Round-the-clock Assistance to Participants
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What you’ll learn:How monetary systems have evolved from commonly known currencies to cryptocurrencies
How blockchain has impacted broad commercial markets beyond cryptocurrencies
The pros and cons of standard fiat monetary systems and cryptocurrencies
Use cases in industries such as aerospace, banking, and healthcare.
Duration: 6.5 Hour
Bonus Course:Understanding Crypto Currencies, Bitcoins, and Blockchains
The Understanding Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoins, and Blockchains Live Lessons course provides more than six hours of detailed discussion introducing you to the world of Bitcoin and the evolution of cryptocurrencies. Aamir and Keith provide a historical foundation of money, currency, trade, banking, and the advent of digital currency. They use slides and lite-board demonstrations to illustrate complex bitcoin and blockchain concepts, and walk you through some of the transactions needed to tap into the digital currency market. They discuss the pros and cons of decentralized banking and digital currency, including some of the large-scale cyber crime and money laundering cases affecting this new and vulnerable market, as well as some of the potential benefits in market and efficiency. They provide a wide range of insight into the issues surrounding the adoption of centralized digital currencies. They also discuss some of the various types of cryptocurrencies and what the future might hold for blockchain technology as a potential solution to a wide range of issues associated with government operations and commercial transactions.
5: Value Adds
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David Shrier.
Christopher Tucci.
Instructors
CEO and Founder Distilled Analytics, Inc.
David is an innovation catalyst, practitioner and mentor who specializes in helping established organizations to build new revenue, having developed $8.5 billion of growth opportunities with companies including Dun & Bradstreet, Wolters Kluwer, Ernst & Young, Disney, GE/NBC Universal, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as leading private equity and VC funds. He has started and/or led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO. He has founded or cofounded two companies based on MIT research, Distilled Analytics (where he is CEO), and Riff Learning (where he is Chairman). He is also on the Fintech Industry Committee for FINRA, the securities industry’s self-regulatory board and has pub-lished two books on blockchain, identity and financial innovation.
Professor of Management of TechnologyEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Chris received the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences (1982), Bachelor of Arts in Music (1983), and Master of Science in Computer Science (1984) from Stanford University. He also received the degree of Master of Science in Technology & Policy (1992) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, MIT, in 1997. Professor Tucci's primary areas of interest are business models, open innovation, crowdsourcing, and dynamic capabilities. For example, he has studied how disk drive manufacturers survived different technological transitions over a twenty-year period.
