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Financial Technology
Financial technology touches billions of transactions daily - from the payment app on your phone to the algorithms managing pension funds, from peer-to-peer lending platforms to AI-powered insurance claims. Behind each innovation are professionals who understa…
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Financial technology touches billions of transactions daily - from the payment app on your phone to the algorithms managing pension funds, from peer-to-peer lending platforms to AI-powered insurance claims. Behind each innovation are professionals who understand both the technology and its financial, regulatory, and ethical implications. Our MSc Financial Technology is a specialist degree that will prepare you to navigate and redefine this rapidly evolving landscape. What makes this course different? There is demand for specialists who can implement blockchain payment systems while ensuring regulatory compliance, deploy AI in trading while managing algorithmic risk, build digital financial services while addressing cybersecurity threats. Our MSc Financial Technology is designed to develop exactly this breadth. - Delivered jointly by — Business School, the School of Computer Science, and industry practitioners, you'll learn where finance and technology intersect - not as separate disciplines, but as integrated problem-solving. - Join a small cohort on this competitive specialist programme, giving you the opportunity to work closely with academic and industry experts, and fellow students. - You will have access to our state-of-the-art Bloomberg training suite where a range of trading techniques can be practised. - Join hackathon events and real-time industry projects where you'll apply theory to practice to creating crowdfunding platforms, develop blockchain solutions to combat fraud, create algorithmic trading applications, and design financial services apps. - Benefit from having access to our Sustainable Finance and Innovation Centre, and the ESG hub, where you'll undertake client-based projects and gain hands-on experience with the latest financial tools and software.
Getting in
As the university states it
A good Honours degree (2:1 or higher) or postgraduate diploma from a UK university or equivalent in a highly quantitative subject (such as Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance or Science). You must have obtained good grades in mathematical, quantitative or statistics related modules at undergraduate level, or GCE A-Level grade A or overseas equivalent in Mathematics. Good programming skills, using languages such as C++, SQL, Java, R or Python, and/or two years relevant work experience in the field of science and technology, financial services or treasury management, are not strict requirements but will add weight to your application. Places on this programme are limited, so you may be asked to attend an interview as part of a competitive application process.
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