FinTech and Financial Markets MSc

**This course is now starting in January 2021.**<br/><br/>Our MSc FinTech and Financial Markets degree is designed to provide you with an understanding of contemporary issues and conceptual frameworks used to adopt financial technology in organisations. You’ll build a solid foundation of global financial markets, principles of FinTech and Blockchain as well as coding and data analytics for finance and FinTech.<br/><br/>This course will enable you to become a finance professional who understands what is driving the FinTech evolution, with the ability to shape financial markets and transform ideas to create new FinTech products. The course will equip you with coding and data analytics skills to understand FinTech products and their place in financial markets.<br/><br/>Youll be applying knowledge, tools and techniques to resolve issues in new and diverse situations within the finance disciplines. Youll also evaluate the rigour and validity of published research, and assess its relevance to the practice of finance.<br/><br/>Created in collaboration with the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), our modules are closely aligned with the institution’s own qualifications, which you can work towards upon completion of your degree. <br/><br/>Why choose this degree?<br/><br/><br/>- develop your comprehensive understanding of the principles of FinTech and Blockchain and a solid theoretical background in finance.<br/><br/><br/>- apply knowledge, tools and techniques to resolve issues in new and diverse situations within FinTech and the Finance discipline.<br/><br/><br/>- Youll complete a hands-on consultancy project, giving you a fantastic opportunity to use the theories and knowledge youve gained to produce a meaningful piece of work.<br/><br/><br/>- NTU’s teaching and learning is gold-rated by the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework – that means you can count on outstanding teaching and learning, an education that’s truly focused on the workplace, and fantastic support in and outside of the classroom.<br/><br/><br/>**Nottingham Business School is proud to have achieved the prestigious triple crown of international accreditations, with EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. This is the highest international benchmark of excellence for business schools. The School is one of only nine UK business schools recognised as a PRME Champion, and held up as an exemplar by the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME). We are also accredited by the Small Business Charter and we hold accreditations from a range of professional bodies that recognise the quality of our teaching and research.**