Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
The financial technology sector is booming, and entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, investors and asset managers are scrambling for more information: Who are the key pla<x>yers? What's driving the explosive growth? What are the risks? This course will look at fundamentals of modern financial markets and financial institutions first. We will explore the reasons behind 2008 financial crisis and other fundamental issues with current global banking problems. Financial Technology, such as Bitcoin, Crowd funding, P2P Finance were created to solve some of problems of global banking system from outside. Incumbent financial institutions are also aggressive to adopt some disruptive FinTech such as mobile payments, blockchain technology from inside to fend off those threats from non-financial sector. This course will try to address all banking needs of consumers and corporation and related matching Fintech developments on the market.
Results/Contributions

Students was challenged to integrate knowledge they have gained from other financial management courses and most updated materials from major consulting firms, namely, McKinsey, IBM, KPMG , Capgemini, etc., to apply their accumulated knowledge to fintech trend analysis and business case studies. Students also engaged in case study and face-to-face discussions with classmates related to unique technology adoption in East Asia, such as, Kakaotalk, Ant Financials & Tencent.

Keywords
FintechDigital FinanceBlockchainBank 4.0 Digital Transformation
Contact Information
許智強
kenhsu50@gmail.com