FinTech
PostgraduateTAS-BEA7092025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $3,128
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
FinTech
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse the roles and responsibilities of financial institutions in developing strategic responses to innovation and disruption
- Evaluate how FinTech tools and techniques communicate financial ideas and solutions for financial analysts
- Solve finance and technological problems in banking and financial institutions with sustainability focus
- Prepare advice on regulating financial technologies
- Module 1: An overview of Fintech
- Module 2: Digital identity and cloud computing
- Module 3: Big Data
- Module 4: Blockchain Technology
- Module 5: Crypto Assets
- Module 6: Digital Payments Systems
- Module 7: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Module 8: Disruption and Investment
- Module 9: Alternative Data in Portfolio Management
- Module 10: Lending and Crowdfunding
- Module 11: Roboadvisors and asset allocation
- Module 12: Wealth Tech and Reg Tech
Financial technology (Fintech) refers to a relatively new branch of the growing and dynamic field of the banking and financial service sector. This subject covers innovations that banks and businesses can use to their advantage, including but not limited to big data analytics, artificial intelligence, robo-advising and cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Fintech equip graduates with the necessary skills to navigate the technological revolution experienced in the last decade in the financial sector.
- Online Tests x 2 (20%)
- Individual Assignment (40%)
- Group Case Activated Learning (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-MPA-MAS-2025 - Master of Professional Accounting
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Pre-recorded lectures provided online, every week (13 weeks), up to 1.5 hours per lecture (3-5 short lectures of maximum 20 minutes each). Workshop (online students will join on-campus students via Zoom), 4 blocks of 3 hour workshops, 180 minutes per workshop.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-MPA-MAS