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FinTech covers digital innovation and technology-enabled business model innovation in the financial services industry. FinTech is rapidly evolving across the globe and represents an existential challenge for major parts of the financial sector. These innovative technologies can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate disintermediation, radically change how firms create and deliver products and services, generate significant privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement challenges, offer new gateways for entrepreneurship, and create opportunities for inclusive growth.

In this course, we will provide an introductory overview of innovations that are central to FinTech in the areas of payment, capital raising, investment, and credit. Specifically, we will mainly focus on blockchain technology and its specific issues and applications. However, we will also cover other innovations, including crowdfunding, robo-advising, social trading, marketplace lending, mobile money, and central bank digital currency. We will also explore threats and opportunities that these technologies pose to incumbent firms and discuss the way that FinTech interacts with law enforcement and regulation issues. Furthermore, the course will feature a number of guest speakers from industry.

Syllabus

  • Describe what FinTech is and why it emerged.
  • Explain both fundamentals and economics of the following FinTech: bitcoin and blockchain, crowdfunding, utility and security tokens, robo-advising, social trading, marketplace lending, mobile money, and central bank digital currency.
  • Analyze the potential and limitations of these FinTech (and their applications).
  • Assess a FinTech business model.
  • Develop a new venture idea linked to blockchain.
Module 1. Introduction to Fintech
Module 2. Bitcoin and Blockchain
  • Monetary Theory and Bitcoin
  • Technical Analysis
  • Bitcoin’s Challenges
  • Smart Contracting
Module 3. Raising Capital
  • Traditional capital raising
  • FinTech alternatives: crowdfunding, P2P lending, token offering
Module 4. Investing
  • Investing in low interest rate environments
  • Optimizing investor utility
  • FinTech solutions
Module 5. Lending
  • Banks and the FinTech Movement
  • P2P Lending
Module 6. Additional Topics
  • Mobile Money
  • Central Bank Digital Currency
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Schär, F., and A. Berentsen (2020). Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets: A Comprehensive Introduction (Cambridge: MIT Press).
  • Articles referenced in the reading list provided on Canvas.

Syllabus

Syllabus

FinTech covers digital innovation and technology-enabled business model innovation in the financial services industry. FinTech is rapidly evolving across the globe and represents an existential challenge for major parts of the financial sector. These innovative technologies can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate disintermediation, radically change how firms create and deliver products and services, generate significant privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement challenges, offer new gateways for entrepreneurship, and create opportunities for inclusive growth.

In this course, we will provide an introductory overview of innovations that are central to FinTech in the areas of payment, capital raising, investment, and credit. Specifically, we will mainly focus on blockchain technology and its specific issues and applications. However, we will also cover other innovations, including crowdfunding, robo-advising, social trading, marketplace lending, mobile money, and central bank digital currency. We will also explore threats and opportunities that these technologies pose to incumbent firms and discuss the way that FinTech interacts with law enforcement and regulation issues. Furthermore, the course will feature a number of guest speakers from industry.

Syllabus

  • Describe what FinTech is and why it emerged.
  • Explain both fundamentals and economics of the following FinTech: bitcoin and blockchain, crowdfunding, utility and security tokens, robo-advising, social trading, marketplace lending, mobile money, and central bank digital currency.
  • Analyze the potential and limitations of these FinTech (and their applications).
  • Assess a FinTech business model.
  • Develop a new venture idea linked to blockchain.
Module 1. Introduction to Fintech
Module 2. Bitcoin and Blockchain
  • Monetary Theory and Bitcoin
  • Technical Analysis
  • Bitcoin’s Challenges
  • Smart Contracting
Module 3. Raising Capital
  • Traditional capital raising
  • FinTech alternatives: crowdfunding, P2P lending, token offering
Module 4. Investing
  • Investing in low interest rate environments
  • Optimizing investor utility
  • FinTech solutions
Module 5. Lending
  • Banks and the FinTech Movement
  • P2P Lending
Module 6. Additional Topics
  • Mobile Money
  • Central Bank Digital Currency
  • Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Schär, F., and A. Berentsen (2020). Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets: A Comprehensive Introduction (Cambridge: MIT Press).
  • Articles referenced in the reading list provided on Canvas.

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