Course Highlights

• With the expansion of rapidly evolving financial technologies & the fact that industries are becoming increasingly consumer-based, there's a requirement for experts who exhibit a versatile range of FinTech skills.
• It's an indigenous & versatile course that strives to offer the most sought-after skills relevant to the FinTech industry, enabling students to deliver valuable social & economic results.
• Students are equipped with skills essential for the convergence of financial business & technology in the dynamic, technology-driven & technology-enabled monetary ecosystem.
• While studying this course, students grow their technical computing & software engineering skills by working on end-to-end projects & elements of entrepreneurship, innovation, decision-making, regulation & critical thinking.
• The MSc- Financial Technology at Coventry University, London is 1-year full time masters level course available with an option of Extended practice

Course Eligibility

Academic Requirements- 

A 60% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree in a relevant subject or 

a 55% in a 4 Year.Undergraduate Degree in a relevant subject

Students from the following Universities will be considered with 55% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.

English Language Requirements-
A 65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)

OR

IELTS 6.5 overall with no component lower than 5.5 (except where course requirements are higher) and other acceptable SELT tests such as the Pearson Test of English (PTE).

Course Fees

International fees - £19,350 (Extended Professional Practice) per year

Career Prospects

• Previous graduates from this course have been working at CFTE, Barclays & Ribbon.
• Upon graduating from this course students can opt for a career pathway as data scientists, financial & corporate analysts, entrepreneurs, consultants in challenger banks, banking & regulatory body experts & innovation experts.

Key Learnings

• Students continuously progress with "learning by doing" through various practical-enhanced modules which put light on FinTech, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Modern AI Technologies, Data Science & Research.
• On completing this course, students learn to differentiate the crucial pillars of FinTech in relevance to risk & regulations, disruption, structure & transformation for efficiently operationalising the ongoing & possible future impact on international financial services.

Study Benefits

• This course is taught in the Square Mile, in the core of London's financial district where students are close to Silicon Roundabout & other leading Fintech businesses in the UK.
• To prepare students for the rapidly-growing & exhilarating FinTech world this course includes real-time case studies so that students can implement their innovative & problem-solving abilities in practice.
• Tailored lectures by professionals from academics, FinTech domains & real-life entrepreneurship encompassing diversified areas of finance, technologies, big data & leadership are organized at normal intervals during the academic year to motivate & provide students with multiple networking opportunities within the society.
• To make sure that students achieve the most during study hours, active & flipped learning are used so that they have ample amount of time to interact with the subject theory as per their personal needs.
• Students have access to 'Culture Exchange' which comprises highly digital classrooms suitable for providing high-quality technical content, state-of-the-art facilities, specialized pods, collaborative performing spaces & break-out areas. 
• With the Standard & Poor Market Intelligence Suite (S&P) you can gain knowledge on how to record performance, recognize investment concepts & keep-up with the industry updates
• There is also the Talent Team which assists the students with work placements, mock interviews, graduate-level jobs & skill development workshops

Core Modules

Your main study themes shall be:

• Research inspired teaching

Opportunities to become involved in research (for example, a group projects linked to a current research question; research-led seminars; applied case studies). Research skills and understanding is a developmental activity that will both support you throughout the course and transform your approach to problem-solving. You are encouraged to access current research and move towards greater independent learning. 

• Embedded employability

You will extend your knowledge, skills, experience and attitudes through professional practice. Confident students should improve their individual, collaborative, and professional skills and attributes. You will improve your flexibility and adeptness to succeed across a range of employment futures. You will enhance your employability skills by applying conceptual knowledge to real organisations and contemporary issues, carrying out independent study and synthesising conceptual understanding within a range of complex situations. You will develop a sound judgement, personal responsibility and initiative in complex and unpredictable professional environments, and engage in networking and collaborating with industry and commercial sectors. 

• Creativity and enterprise

Creative learning activities will foster your creativity, critical enquiry, reflective practice and understanding of the tools to independently manage your own continuous learning. You will be expected to demonstrate originality and self-direction in your application of relevant knowledge to new and complex situations.

• Intercultural and international engagement

You will find an emphasis on intercultural engagement and group working that will foster intercultural competency, strong sense of local, national and global community, and awareness and respect of intercultural values, languages and belief systems.

• Community contribution and responsibility

You will exhibit an awareness of sustainability and well-being issues, and the need to adopt responsible and ethical practices.

• Innovation and digital fluency

You will engage with new technologies, teaching aids and software innovations, increasing your innovative practices and exposure to the latest learning technologies available. You will rely on technologies to support innovation in learning, and to critically evaluate sources of information and apply these in complex and unpredictable situations. You will attain a significant level of digital fluency that you can apply in your professional practice.

• Originality, independent learning and critical thinking

You will show originality in the application of knowledge. Critical thinking is a meta-skill – that is, a skill that subsumes and enhances many other skills that competent professionals possess. You will develop positive and critical attitudes towards leadership, recognising when to challenge the status quo, developing a new form of ‘learning how to learn’, enabling you to take greater control of your own learning. You will be at the centre of your own learning, you will become confident in sourcing and filtering information, prioritising activities and demonstrating creative problem solving skills, developing a questioning approach to ideas and independence of thought.

Year one

The course follows a sequential learning progression while providing a hands-on approach where students have the opportunity to develop end-to-end industry-like projects. The first semester mandatory modules provide students with a systematic understanding of financial, technological, analytical and regulatory concepts. This is designed to give students an in-depth knowledge of financial services and problem-solving analytical methods used in the industry within the broader context of data science application in FinTech.

The second semester extends these core skills: students will continue progressing through “learning by doing” in a number of practice-enhanced modules that focus on FinTech strategy and entrepreneurship, current AI technologies and data science, and research.

Final semester project modules provide scope for a deeper level of knowledge and application of FinTech principles through the Dissertation, Internship* or FinTech Simulation Project modules.

Modules

• FinTech Landscape and Transformations in Financial Services
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Business Analytics and Python Programming
• Risk and RegTech
• Research Methods for Finance and Accounting
• Artificial Intelligence in Finance
• FinTech Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship
• Machine Learning and Fintech Applications
• Extended Professional Practice 1
• Extended Professional Practice 2
• Extended Professional Practice Project

Extended Professional Practice 1

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This non-credit bearing module, together with Extended Professional Practice 2 will provide students on Extended Professional Practice MSc courses with a substantive professional experience. This will take the form of either an internship2 with a host organisation, or a campus-based professional experience. This experience will support the development of your personal and professional skills, such as communication, team-working, self-management, project management and critical reflection to enhance their future employability. You will be expected to augment your previous learning and experiences in order to develop your knowledge and skills of professional practice in your chosen subject area. This module will also provide you with the necessary experience and focus on completing the project report for Extended Professional Practice Project.

Extended Professional Practice 2

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This non-credit bearing module is a continuation of Extended Professional Practice 1, providing students on an Extended Professional Practice MSc courses with a substantive professional experience. This will take the form of either a continuation of the internship with a host organisation, or the campus-based professional experience. This module aims to provide you with further professional experiences, building on knowledge and skills, previously gained, consolidating and refining your personal and professional skills, theory and practice and further enhance your future employability. You will be expected to augment your previous learning and experiences in order to develop additional knowledge and skills of professional practice in your chosen subject area. As with the Extended Professional Practice 1, this module will also provide you with the necessary experience and focus on completing the project report for Extended Professional Practice Project.

Extended Professional Practice Project

This is a compulsory module on MSc courses with Extended Professional Practice. This module aims to integrate theory and practice either through undertaking an Extended Professional Practice or campus-based project in an area relevant to the subject being studied. This will have involved you working on an organisational issue either within a host organisation or on campus addressing a project brief, as part of the Extended Professional Practice modules 1 and 2.