Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
Our MSc Financial Technology programme is designed for you if you want to learn, work, and innovate in the contemporary financial sphere. Fintech is the edge of finance as an academic discipline and brings together technology, economics and regulation, and change management principles to the world of finance.
This is for you if you are passionate and ambitious to kick start a new career in areas such as data analytics, deployment of cloud technologies and machine learning applications in predictive finance. Fintech is designed with inputs from our students and industry experts and vigorously focuses on applied teaching and learning. As our student, you will learn Python and Power BI from scratch and apply these tools to financial data and its transformation.
You can also achieve free Microsoft Azure certifications and see how cloud and edge computing are transforming the business computing landscape. You will also learn how marketing, regulation, economic policy, and financial governance contribute to your essential knowledge.
You will:
- Work on an industry-briefed project addressing gaps arising from the fast growth of technological transformation in financial services and markets
- Learn the latest market trends and needs around risk, insight, creation and how technology better serves FinTech companies
- Look at developments including blockchain, cryptocurrency, crowdfunding, regtech, insurtech, fintech lending and crime detection
- Gain the expertise to develop disruptive FinTech innovations
- Consider how digital innovation helps make financial services more inclusive, accessible, streamlined and better aligned with consumer values
- Learn a range of established Big Data and analytics techniques to critically analyse information and propose solutions
Ideal Students
This is for you if...
- You are looking to understand how technology is reshaping the financial industry
- You want to learn cutting-edge technologies in the financial workplace
- You wish to explore and learn from the success and failure stories in FinTech
- You aspire to a career in FinTech companies, digital banking, entrepreneurial finance, crowdfunding, regtech, insurtech, international payments and cryptocurrencies
- You want to learn about the regulation, competition, trends and environment that are impacting the financial innovation space
- You want to explore technological innovation/transformation in finance for a business idea or for implementation within your organization
Curriculum
The course is delivered across two semesters of 15 weeks each, with semester 3 dedicated to your FinTech Project. In semesters one and two, you will have nine hours of teaching each week plus one hour of Supporting Student Success.
In addition, you will also undertake independent study in your own time with online support through the University’s virtual learning environment, Blackboard.
The FinTech Practical Project module accounts for the final 60 credits of your degree. This industry-focused project allows you to put your learning into practice and enhance your professional experience.
Modules
- Financial Models, Markets and Instruments
- FinTech Fundamentals
- Economic and Regulatory Environment
- Innovation in Finance
- Data Visualisation
- FinTech Data Analytics
After completing the core modules, you will then undertake a 60-credit project, choosing from the following:
- Practical Project (Internship)
- Practical Project (Placement)
- Practical Project
Career Opportunities
This qualification will equip you for a broad range of career opportunities in, for example, fintech companies, digital payment companies, new trading firms, security protection firms, risk management and regulatory compliance, and credit management.
Opportunities are growing in areas such as Compliance, which has seen steady job growth since the financial crisis; and cyber security where a report by Cybersecurity Ventures recently estimated that cybercrimes will triple the number of job openings in the next five years and it is estimated that there will be at least 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity positions by 2021.