- Docente: Stefano Bonini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: INF/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Financial Markets and Institutions (cod. 0901)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows the fundamental aspects of technology applied to financial services and institutions. He is also able to apply these novel technologies in the rapidly changing financial sector in production, distribution and organization processes, having studied the following topics: • elements of parallel and distributed computing • main methods of data acquisition, storage and analysis • blockchain and distributed ledger (smart contracts) • crypocurrencies • cybersecurity and data protection (GDPR compliance) • main software architectures for the financial sector
Course contents
The course is focussed on main financial services evolutions, namely:
- Fintech Ecosystem
- Lending
- Peer to Peer
- Payments
- Supply Chain
- big data
- machine learning
- blockchain & cryptocurrencies
Readings/Bibliography
course material provided during the lectures
Teaching methods
Traditional ex cathedra lectures
FinTech Managers Seminars
Team Work
Business Cases
Assessment methods
10% Lecture Partecipation
20% Project Work
20% In Class Presentation
50% Written Exam
per i non frequentanti 100% Written ExamTeaching tools
Unibo e-learning platform
Lecturer Handouts
Financial Newspaper
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Bonini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.