MSc Financial Technology

About course

Your course focuses on the development of Financial Technology products. You will gain a broad overview of the financial sector while specialist modules in finance, mathematics, and computing will enhance your knowledge and skill in developing sophisticated Financial Technology products.
Your course will be tailored to your interests, first in a co-designed module where you will receive peer and expert support in an area of your choice, then in the dissertation project where you will deliver a substantial Financial Technology product either individually or collaboratively.
Throughout this course your learning and assessment is centered on authentic problems in financial technology, so you will graduate with a portfolio of practical solutions that you can showcase online.

What you will learn

• Financial markets: you will develop a critical understanding of the organisation and structure of various international financial markets, and the disruptive influence of Financial Technology products.
• Artificial intelligence: you will be able to critically compare machine learning strategies, and implement them to solve problems in financial technology.
• Financial technology projects: you will have a thorough understanding of the design and structure of financial technology projects, including project life-cycles, software development strategies, the use of cloud distribution technologies and testing strategies.

• Current topics in financial technology: in our co-designed module you will receive peer and expert support in area of your interest.

  What you will gain

• This programme provides a global perspective on finance and the technical skills to develop financial technology products. It will equip you for a variety of technical roles in the growing financial technology sector, from quantitative analyst to machine learning engineer.
• You will gain an overview of the nature and operations of financial markets, and become adept at accessing, analysing and visualising a range of types of financial data.
• You will also develop your programming skills to include a range of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning theories and techniques, database technologies, application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed computing methods and blockchain technologies. You will have hands-on experience in applying these techniques to produce viable financial technology products as part of an authentic, collaborative software development team.
• As part of the programme you will co-design your learning activities to suit your particular interests, and can work with peers in London, Mauritius and Dubai, collaborating internationally to solve real-life problems with financial technology.
• Most modules adopt a portfolio-based approach to assessment. This means you will build up a variety of practical solutions to real-world financial problems that you can share online and showcase to potential employers.
• Throughout the course you will develop the critical graduate competencies of technological agility, problem solving and delivery, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship, communication and inclusion.