FINT 502

Financial Technology (Fintech) particularly in Silicon Vally, is facing rapidly changing technological applications in financial econometrics and quantitative finance are on the cutting edge of new product development. Rapid product development and shorten marketing cycles is forcing the industry to adopt to high-tech product design, development, marketing and management methods, leading to accelerated FinTech product deployment, and capital market innovation and development. The speed of development and deployment is leveraged by a collapse in information and hardware-software costs, faster processing speeds, infinite storage capabilities, institutional and retail client engagement, and integrated and instant customer engagement. Multi-National Corporations (MNC), Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment and Commercial Banking, Securities Exchanges and Regulatory Agencies are faced with adopting to rapid change and high competition, limiting the ability to regulate monopoly and oligopoly positions in the market over the long run. This course develops students psychological, technical and managerial skills to create, manage and deploy FinTech products based on solid theoretical and applied knowledge. Students learn qualitative and qualitative technologies and techniques to design, develop, test, manage and rapidly deploy FinTech products based on applied financial econometrics and quantitative finance. The goal is to make each student a principal in FinTech product development and how to arbitrage their company, team and themselves as FinTech entrepreneurs.