Professional Certificate Programme in Blockchain and Financial Technology - IIM Kozhikode

• Robo-Advising, Market Size, Finance Apps & Receptivity, Robo-Advisors, Insurtech Market, Incumbents Strategies & Role of Technology.

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• Mean, Variance, Standard deviation, Regression, Portfolio risk and return concept, Introduction to Econometrics in Finance. Non linear regression,  Introduction to Calculus, minimisation and maximisation for linear and non linear model.

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• Tableau, R-Shoney and Excel data visualisation techniques for the Various Financial Data.

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• Factor Analysis, Cluster and Discriminant Analysis.

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• History of Payment Systems, Current Trends, Payment Process, UPI, Cost burden for Merchants, Introduction to Regulations – Global & India, Future of Payment Systems, Case Studies.
• Alternative Lending
• Traditional vs P2P vs Alternative vs Marketplace Lending, Evolution of Lending, Overview of Online Marketplace Lending (OML), Requirements, P2P Lending, Consumer Credit Landscape, Student Loan Debt, Small Business Lending.
• Crowdfunding
• Importance of Debt-based Crowdfunding, Overview of Digital Crowdfunding Technology, Learning from the Crowd, Impact Investing, SEBI Whitepaper.

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• Open Banking
• APIs; Closed vs Open Banking, Integrators, Producer; Distributor, Platform Models of Open Banking.
• Artificial Intelligence & FinTech
• AI Techniques and Tools, Introduction to Search Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) , Fuzzy Logic Systems (FLS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Introduction to Expert Systems (ES) , Robotics, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Deep Learning (DL), AI in Financial Services: Present and Future Applications.

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• Risk Management Process, Financial Derivatives – Futures & Options, Credit Rating, Use of R/Python for Credit Scoring, Machine Learning Algorithm for Credit Underwriting, Fraud Detection.

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• InsurTech
• Disruption cases; Sources of Growth; Strategies for Incumbent Insurance. Players, Insurance Marketplace of Future.
• Digital Wealth Management
• Personal Financial Planning, Gamifying Personal Financial Goals, Estate Planning, Financial Products for Retail & HNW Investors.
• Algorithm Trading
• Expected Returns, Standard Deviations and Correlation, Building an Efficient Portfolio, Diversified Investments, ETFs, Difference between Pure Advisors & Robo Advisors, Stock Selection, Fundamental Analysis – Manager Performance, Screening, Neural Networks, Smart Beta. Use of R/Python to design an algorithm trade.

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• Simulation of Derivatives: Option’s Greek Letters Delta, Vega, Rho,  Gamma, Simulation in Replacement and Maintenance, Simulation of inventory, optimum cash holding and inventory.

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• RegTech
• How and Why to Regulate Fintech, Due Diligence, Marketing and Design Considerations, Data Storage, Customer Complaints, Credit Analysis, Trader Surveillance, Risk Monitoring, Change Management.

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• Personal Finance Analytics using MS-Excel – Goal Planning, What-if Analysis, Time Value of Money, Project Feasibility Analysis.
• Capital Market Analytics using R/Python – Stock Simulation, Portfolio Risk & Return Analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, CAPM, Sharpe Ratio, Optimum Portfolio Construction, Bond Pricing & Analytics, Option Pricing & Analytics.
• Financial Data Visualisation – KPI Dashboards

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• Data Science (Big Data) & FinTech: Applications, Data Science and Big Data in Industry Practice, Introduction to Machine Learning.
• Cloud & FinTech: Why Cloud? Cloud Deployment Models; Cloud Providers; Digital Identity – Categories, DI Standard Setting Bodies.
• Blockchain & FinTech: Blockchain fundamentals – Immutability, Hashes, Blocks, Transaction Flow, Permissioned vs Non-permissioned; Demo of
• Blockchain and Hash creation.
• Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT); Web 3.0; 5G

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• Financial Optimisation, Capital Budgeting, Supply Chain optimisation, Portfolio with large no of stocks optimisation, Optimising multiple goal along with financial aspect, Material Management.

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• Behavioural aspect of Fintech, Prospect theory, Anchoring, Overoptimism, Disposition, Momentum, Mental Accounting.

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• Costing, Various aspects of pricing, Economics of competition, Conjoint Analysis, Revenue Management.

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• IT, and encryption in financial transactions. Govt. rules and regulation in safeguarding individuals from various form of financial transactions. Growing digital payment platform and vulnerability. Onsite transactions and threats to privacy and security.

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• BlockChain and Crypto, Regulations, Advantage, and Disadvantages, Types of Crypto, Crypto in different countries, Factor behind Crypto growth, Crypto and financial transactions.

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• Taxation relating to Crypto and Bitcoin by various countries.

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• An understanding of Altcoins, Defi growing opportunities and challenges.

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• Approaches of Govt. of different countries towards crypto and Bitcoin.  Govt efforts to regulate them. Prospect of Formulation and circulation. Digital currency. Spurious cryptocurrency, growing challenges in differentiating various crypto and bitcoin. Entry and exit barriers of introducing crypto and Bitcoins. Cases and incidents of frauds and scams relating to them.

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• Strategy changes, business model innovation, product and process innovation, and organisational innovation within a layer of newer technologies, including cases and examples.

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