Session 01:
- Introduction and course objectives
- The history of FinTech
- Definitions
- Historical development
- Financial-institution-led innovation in the 20th Century
- Dot.com boom-to-bust and the birth of the modern FinTech surge
- The current global landscape
Session 02:
- Key themes in FinTech innovation
- Increasing financial services competition
- Reducing barriers to entry
- Providing sustainable and inclusive finance
- Artificial intelligence and robotics in finance
- Faster payments
- Cashless societies
- Regulation
- Data, privacy, and customer needs
- Cybersecurity and cybercrime, from sanctions to money laundering and phishing to social engineering
- FinTech leaders and laggards: case studies
- Disruptors vs incumbents
- Silicon Valley vs New York vs London
- East vs West
- Singapore and state-sponsored innovation
- Hong Kong and laissez-faire development
- India, Aadhaar, and banking the unbanked
Session 03:
- The rise of the East: Go, China, and its global master plan
- China’s FinTech Top 50 … what the key players are doing
- The Greater Bay Area and advanced innovation
- The Belt and Road Initiative and Chinese FinTech for the rest of the world
Session 04:
- Riding the wave: what the future could hold, and how to spot market needs through a different lens
- Financial functional analysis: a conceptual framework for understanding the changing financial system
Timetable
The course will be structured over four sessions as shown below table, with the Session 1 acting as a brief level-setter. Sections 2-4 are intended to act as the meat of the course. All can be adapted as needed.
Session Time
Registration 8.30 – 9.00am
Session 1 9.00 – 10.00am
Session 2, Part 1 10:00 – 10:30am
Coffee break 10.30 – 11.00am
Session 2, Part 2 11.00 – 12.30pm
Lunch 12.30 – 1.30pm
Session 3 1.30 – 3.00pm
Coffee break 3.00 – 3.30pm
Session 4 3.30 – 5.00pm approx.