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How Software Ate Finance

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Overview

Software is eating the world, with radical consequences for financial services. This course gives you a foundation for understanding the future of financial services, and provides guidance for creating fintech businesses in the 2020s and beyond.

Syllabus 9

  1. Section 1 - Intros/Overview, Money, and Digital Currency Innovation 2.5 hours
  2. Module 2: Capital Markets, Trading, and Risk 2.5 hours
  3. Module 3: Payments and PayPal 2 hours
  4. Module 4: Goldman Sachs Case Study - Marcus 50 minutes
  5. Module 5: Software + Finance Investing 50 minutes
  6. Module 6: Clearing & Settlement / Regulation 2.5 hours
  7. Module 7: Digital Assets 50 minutes
  8. Module 8: Digital Lending and Affirm 50 minutes
  9. Module 9: Asset Management, Conclusions 2.5 hours

Skills you'll practise

FinanceFinTechBlockchainPayment ProcessingFinancial ManagementBankingStrategic ThinkingAccounting SoftwareLeadership and ManagementCryptography

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
  • A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
  • Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
  • The actual Stanford lectures (CS229, CS224N, CS231N…): the deepest free material on AI anywhere.
  • Taught by Stanford University, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 168 learners.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (9 parts) you can see before you start.

Disadvantages

  • Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
  • Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
  • Graduate level: needs linear algebra, probability and programming first.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free

  • Free trials: You can start a 7-day free trial for many individual courses, Specializations, or a Coursera Plus subscription to test full course features. Cancel before the seventh day if you do not want to be charged.
  • Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.

Taught by

  • R. Martin ChavezLecturer, Graduate School of Business
  • Jeffrey ConnLecturer, Graduate School of Business

Stanford University is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (97/100).

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