Courses
Financial Technology & Innovation-2025/2026
| Level 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| INFO-6157 | AI & Machine Learning | 3 | ||
| This course provides students with examples of how AI is transforming the way consumers interact with money while helping the financial industry to streamline and optimize processes ranging from credit decisions to quantitative trading and financial risk management. | ||||
| FINA-6034 | Regulation, Privacy & Ethics | 3 | ||
| This course will provide an overview of the services. Discussion and debate will include reflection on regulations vs ethics and the ever-present potential for identity theft and misuse of sensitive customer data. Students will also assess consumer expectations around philanthropy, sustainability, user experience and customer centricity. | ||||
| MGMT-6194 | Leadership & Management in FinTech | 3 | ||
| This course will enhance students' understanding of leadership and management approaches appropriate to both start-up and enterprise-level work environments as well as self-employment. Emphasis will be placed on skills related to professional communication, planning, decision making, conflict resolution, effective team building, negotiating, and navigating change. This course covers practical issues that must be addressed daily by entrepreneurs creating new FinTech companies. These include identifying opportunities, selecting and negotiating with potential partners, and "making the pitch" to potential investors. Students will develop a business plan that an entrepreneur would present to potential investors. | ||||
| FINA-6035 | Financial Services & Products | 4 | ||
| In this course, students will learn about key financial product lines and services and also explore how the financial services industry continues to benefit from technological innovation. The similarities and differences between domestic and international financial services industries will also be explored. Students will be introduced to the impact of technology on the financial services industry. Students will be introduced to FinTech terminology and applications. | ||||
| INFO-6158 | Business Analysis for FinTech | 4 | ||
| This course focuses on equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, analyze, and solve business problems in the dynamic field of financial technology (FinTech). Students will explore the transformative influence of FinTech on traditional banking and financial systems and be guided through practical business analysis tools and methodologies that can be applied to FinTech. Students will learn how to be the conduit between business and technology and learn the key stills of requirement gathering, process modeling, data analysis, and strategy development. Real-world case studies will form a significant part of the curriculum, providing students with valuable hands-on experience and the opportunity to apply learned concepts to practical situations. | ||||
| INFO-6159 | Security Technology for Fintech | 4 | ||
| This course explores the best practices for data and information security. It provides a comprehensive overview of data and information security concepts crucial for safeguarding financial institutions and individuals from cybercrimes. Students also learn to implement cybersecurity policies using FinTech applications. The course also addresses secure network design, technologies for securing systems and infrastructure, access control methods for AAA services, and strategies for business continuity and disaster recovery planning in information systems. | ||||
| COOP-1020 | Co-operative Education Employment Prep | 1 | ||
| This workshop will provide an overview of the Co-operative Education consultants and students' roles and responsibilities as well as the Co-operative Education Policy. It will provide students with employment preparatory skills specifically related to co-operative education work assignments and will prepare students for their work term. | ||||
| Level 2 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
Group 1 | ||||
| INFO-6160 | Blockchain & Cryptocurrency | 3 | ||
| Blockchain technology is one of several distributed, decentralized ledger database systems. This course focuses on distributed ledger systems (DLT) and their applications. Content will inform students about cryptocurrencies and the impact they have had on financial services. Students will analyze the various technology frameworks that support them and how they can impact financial institutions' operations. In addition, the course covers other non-financial applications of DLT and cryptocurrencies. Other topics include central-bank issued digital currencies, Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies and tokens are changing the way that firms acquire funding. The course will cover the technology and economics driving these changes including consensus mechanism and use case students and other applications. | ||||
| INFO-6161 | Big Data & Enterprise FinTech | 4 | ||
| This course will differentiate big data and the critical role it will play in FinTech's present and future. It will teach students to identify and integrate data from different FinTech systems into a decision support system useful for a variety of analysis to support both financial and operational decisions. Students will learn about various analytical tools and techniques and how to correctly tell the story of the analysis results to the intended audience. | ||||
| FINA-6036 | Mobile & Web Applications | 4 | ||
| This course covers the principles and proper methodologies associated with the design of web and mobile applications. At the end of the course, students will be able to express their ideas through a design, and will know what it takes to create a positive user experience. | ||||
| FINA-6037 | Automated Investing | 3 | ||
| This course will cover how data science and machine learning algorithms are changing various types of investing and financial planning technology. | ||||
| MGMT-6195 | Strategic Client Engagement | 4 | ||
| This course introduces students to the principles and application of the sales process. Included in this course are the following topics: prospecting, approach, presentation, close techniques, objection handling, and relationship management. Students are required to execute effective individual sales presentations, conduct interviews, and complete written proposals and reports. | ||||
Group 2 | ||||
| Students will be enrolled in one of the following courses: INNV-6001 or MGMT-6196 | ||||
| INNV-6001 | Innovation Applications | 4 | ||
| Organizations and individuals need to be innovative to succeed in the complex and rapidly-changing global market place. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of innovation and how innovation applies to your discipline or field. Using this foundational knowledge, you will select and apply the novel and adaptive thinking processes and tools presented in the course to complete an innovative learning project in collaboration with other students. The project will be based on a real-world scenario involving an external live client identified in consultation with your professor, and you will interact directly with the client. The project may involve a multi-disciplinary approach. Throughout the course, novel and adaptive thinking skills and collaboration skills will be evaluated through self assessment and peer assessment. This course is designed to give students in graduate certificate programs the opportunity apply innovative thinking to a real-world problem presented by an external client. | ||||
| MGMT-6196 | Capstone Project | 4 | ||
| In cross-functional teams, students will design a FinTech start-up and present their ideas in a mock stage 1 venture capital pitch competition. With the assistance of a faculty advisor, students will complete both primary and secondary research on their proposed product/service concept. Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of their target customers' needs and demonstrate how their concept meets those needs in an advanced, original and viable manner, relative to the competition. Students will be encouraged to pursue project ideas that reflect their preferred area of employment within the FinTech industry as their project work will display their readiness to enter the professional world. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 11 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||