Financial Technology MSc

We live in the digital age, facing an increasingly digital future. This forward-looking course shapes you into a creative digital professional by following a unique, problem-solving ‘two pillars’ approach that puts you at the leading edge of financial technology (fintech). First, it equips you to tackle the biggest challenges facing the financial sector, particularly around increased regulatory requirements and customer satisfaction. Second, the course gives you the tools to use fintech to build a more sustainable future. Using a hands-on approach, you develop innovative solutions to real-world problems using real-time, transformative digital technologies including AI, big data, machine learning, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and cybersecurity.

Partnerships and collaborations

In the Fintech Guest Lecture series, we collaborate with academics and experts at the forefront of financial technology across a wide range of industries, who share their knowledge and practical experiences with you.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* Cutting-edge business analytics suite specifically tailored to digital data practices

* Up-to-date financial databases and statistical software such as FAME, Stata and SPSS

* Access to running algorithms using programming languages such as Python, and learning resources providing advanced simulations

* Business pods, boardroom areas and IT suites designed to simulate a professional office environment

Your student experience

Gain a qualification that puts you ahead of the curve, focusing on the contemporary financial sector’s new approach to policy and decision-making: how to use fintech to build a sustainable future.

With our commitment to hands-on learning, you gain the skills needed to solve genuine, real-world financial-sector challenges.

Explore the ways in which financial technology can be utilised to achieve fintech solutions aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Study the transformations that machine learning is introducing to the financial sector and put learning into practice by building machine-learning algorithms.

Benefit from talks by experts from academia and the fintech sector, touching various areas of financial services, technology, social business models and entrepreneurship.

Develop the essential personal skills needed to succeed in an era of rapid and ever-changing technological advances including critical thinking, creativity and mental flexibility, agile, entrepreneurial and sustainable decision-making skills.

Get involved in solving real-life fintech problems with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS), where you assist businesses, from start-ups to established corporations, to upskill and innovate.