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FinTech

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Course Length

7 weeks

8–10 hours a week

Featuring faculty from:

Harvard Business School

Investigate the future of FinTech and learn to think strategically about problems faced by real businesses.

The FinTech landscape has been largely defined by disruptive technology transforming banking and financial services. However, the industry is no longer being measured by its potential impact, but rather who is currently driving this innovation and how to strategically engage with it. Now is the time to familiarize yourself with the necessary regulatory frameworks and infrastructure.

The FinTech online short course from Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL), in association with HarvardX, provides an up-to-date look into the maturing FinTech industry. You’ll explore how organizations have filled gaps left by existing financial institutions to successfully meet customers’ shifting needs. Guided by experts, you’ll gain insight into the changing nature of the financial sector and a comprehensive understanding of the technologies and innovations transforming finance and business. Through innovative pedagogical approaches pioneered by the Harvard Business School (HBS), this course adapts the Case Method Approach used in on-campus programs at HBS for online study, presenting real-life challenges that reflect the complex, dynamic nature of the FinTech environment.

The course will be delivered via Get Smarter .By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

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Faculty

Your Instructor

Christopher Malloy

Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management

Your Instructor

Lauren Cohen

L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration

Data Science for Business values

About the certificate

Gain knowledge about FinTech and earn a premier certificate from Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL), in association with HarvardX.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and couriered to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.