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Our degrees core focus is to give you the ability and confidence to contribute to the technical development of financial services whether in a small start-up or an established company.

You will work with experts in finance, computer science, and mathematics from across the universitys departments.

Group work can include students from our Mauritius and Dubai campuses, giving you a global perspective on Financial Technology and helping you to build an international collaborative network.

Our innovative module ''Current Topics in Financial Technology'' allows you to co-design your learning activities to your particular interests.

The course is designed for applicants who wish to learn about the financial sector while enhancing their programming skills with applications to finance.

What you will gain

This programme provides a global perspective on finance and the technical skills to develop financial technology products. It will equip you for a variety of technical roles in the growing financial technology sector, from quantitative analyst to machine learning engineer.

You will gain an overview of the nature and operations of financial markets, and become adept at accessing, analysing and visualising a range of types of financial data.

You will also develop your programming skills to include a range of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning theories and techniques, database technologies, application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed computing methods and blockchain technologies. You will have hands-on experience in applying these techniques to produce viable financial technology products as part of an authentic, collaborative software development team.

As part of the programme you will co-design your learning activities to suit your particular interests, and can work with peers in London, Mauritius and Dubai, collaborating internationally to solve real-life problems with financial technology.

Most modules adopt a portfolio-based approach to assessment. This means you will build up a variety of practical solutions to real-world financial problems that you can share online and showcase to potential employers.

Throughout the course you will develop the critical graduate competencies of technological agility, problem solving and delivery, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship, communication and inclusion.

What you will learn

• Financial markets: you will develop a critical understanding of the organisation and structure of various international financial markets, and the disruptive influence of Financial Technology products.
• Artificial intelligence: you will be able to critically compare machine learning strategies, and implement them to solve problems in financial technology.
• Financial technology projects: you will have a thorough understanding of the design and structure of financial technology projects, including project life-cycles, software development strategies, the use of cloud distribution technologies and testing strategies.
• Current topics in financial technology: in our co-designed module you will receive peer and expert support in area of your interest.