MBA Handbook-Swiss School of Management

Programme Outline
Master of Business Administration
Concentration
MBA in Financial Technology
FinTech586 Financial Transformation & Alternative Finance
This course provides an introduction to the FinTech and financial transformation, and
addresses the history of financial innovation from evolution to digitization of financial
services. Focusing on these themes:
1. Introduction to FinTech
2. Transformation
3. Evolution
4. Collaboration between financial institutions and startups
5. FinTech Typology
6. Emerging Economics: opportunities and challenges
7. From too-small to too-big to fail
8. History of financial innovation
9. Digitization of financial services
10. FinTech & Fund
11. P2P and marketplace lending
12. ICOs
13. Financial Risk Analysis
FinTech587 Payment, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
The course designed to introduce the fundamental building blocks of financial technologies
students will learn the essential components of technology-driven financial strategies, from
complex regulations to cryptocurrency to portfolio optimization. And how modern investment
strategies deploy technology to produce optimal results, explore the disruptive force of
changing payment methods. This course covers these topics:
1. Individual payment
2. Developing countries and DFS: The story of mobile money
3. Developing countries and DFS: Regulation of mobile money
4. RTGS system
5. ABCDs of alternative finance
6. Cryptocurrencies
7. Intro to digital asset market
8. Stablecoins
9. Legal & Regulatory implications of cryptocurrencies
10. What is Blockchain
11. The benefits from New Payment Stake
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