About Fintech Essentials Pathway

Financial technology (fintech) sits at the heart of improving the way customers interact with their finances and the banking system as a whole. This pathway will introduce the basics of fintech and delve into blockchain, from cryptocurrencies to the uses of distributed ledger technology (DLT). It will also touch on some more advanced aspects of fintech such as robo-advisors and algorithmic trading.

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Nir Vulkan

25 years: Financial technology & algo trading

Nir is a professor at Oxford Saïd Business School and the University of Oxford. In addition to being a full time academic, Nir works with world-leading hedge funds and develops algorithmic trading models.