
They continue to be a key element in striking a balance between financial efficiency, competitiveness, contribution to growth and fairness – elements that are key to sustainability of the system in the public interest. In a world of financial disintermediation through bond markets, nonbank financial institutions, and fintech banks are still “special” and play a unique role in the financial architecture. May 20: Why Banks are Still Special, Anthony Saunders His models’ results are applied to financial and managerial strategies.Įdward Altman is Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, and creator of the Altman-Z-Score model for bankruptcy prediction. Professor Altman reviews his more than 50 year journey in developing and implementing pioneering works in bankruptcy prediction utilizing traditional financial indicators combined with highly robust econometric, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and applied to small, medium and large firms throughout the globe. May 19: Predicting Financial Distress for Large, Medium and Small Firms, Edward Altman Kathleen DeRose is Director of the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation, and Director of the Fubon Center’s FinTech Initiative.
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This session considers the state of the FinTech discipline and its likely evolution going forward. In today’s FinTech businesses, consumers bank via mobile apps integrated into social media, institutions trade electronically, and robo-advisers make decisions about investment portfolios. The FinTech label also refers to increasingly automated approaches to the main financial intermediation functions: payments, capital raising, remittances, managing uncertainty and risk, market price discovery, and mediating information asymmetry and incentives. “FinTech” refers to financial sector innovations involving technology-enabled business models that facilitate disintermediation, revolutionize how existing firms create and deliver products and services, address privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement challenges, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, and seed opportunities for inclusive growth. We are ten or more years into the technology transformation of finance. May 18: The Future of Fintech, Kathleen DeRose The June 8 session will run from 10:00am - 1:30pm ET with a 30-minute break starting around 11:30am ET. Daily sessions will run from 9:00am - 12:30pm ET with a 30-minute break starting around 10:30am ET. This course has been designed for live online instruction. Please complete a Request More Information form and we will be in touch. Our team will be happy to answer any questions you have about the course. It tries to look over the horizon at what is likely to come next based on the best available thinking. This workshop draws on the best fundamental and applied thinking about the financial architecture drawing on academic and practitioner research and networks.

Creativity is key, as it has been in the past, and much of it is found among leading practitioners and academics, with a lively history of exchanges between them - and with regulators responsible for the efficiency, fairness, competitiveness and robustness of the financial system.

The global financial sector has once again been upended and is in the process of resettling, with new winners and losers and a premium on proactive and creative strategy. Volatility and risk comes with the territory, as does financial innovation and opportunity. Today’s global financial environment has given rise to a host of transformations in financial technologies, instruments, markets and institutions and technologies, more than at any time since the global financial crisis – now almost a quarter century ago. This class will meet on Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays only.ĩ:00am - 12:30pm ET (all program dates except June 8) PLEASE NOTE: This program is currently being taught as a live online class.
