This course provides participants with an understanding of the key technologies changing the nature of finance, from cloud infrastructures to big data, blockchain, and AI. It explores how digital tools shape and are shaped by financial market structures and regulations, opening new opportunities for FinTechs, BigTechs, and innovative partnerships.
Your Benefits:
- Explore and exploit digital capabilities to improve business.
- Strategise around emerging digital technologies and regulations.
- Anticipate new needs and capabilities related to digital technologies.
- Manage technology hype and pessimism.
- Relate traditional and alternative finance within an evolving financial landscape.
About the Course
Artificial Intelligence (AI) might be the most transformative technology ever, but fundamentally, finance is still about money. This course discusses how digital technologies change all aspects of finance, from digital infrastructures to ecosystems and data. Participants will explore the role of specific digital technologies like AI, large language models, and social trading platforms. The course also covers deeper trends behind technological developments, such as changing user behaviour, increasing connectivity, and regulation. These insights prepare participants for new opportunities and help them build capabilities for future technological advancements like quantum computing and smart money.
Themes:
- Modularity: the shift from IT to digitalisation.
- Co-opetition: new structures and partnerships.
- Digital payment infrastructures.
- Artificial Intelligence and augmented intelligence.
- Cryptocurrencies, smart money, and blockchain.
This course is a part of our Finance specialization in Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. The course can be taken separately, as a single course, or in combination with the two other courses constituting the GRC specialization. It is possible to integrate the specialization or the course within the full master degree in Business Development (MBD).
Read more about the GRC specialization right here.