Financial Innovation

llsms2027  2018-2019  Louvain-la-Neuve

Financial Innovation
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Candelon Bertrand; Zhang Yue;
Language
English
Main themes
The course gives an overview of the recent innovations in banking and finance. It will touches concepts of Fintech and new sources of financing. It will focus towards positive social outcomes.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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Upon completion of this course, students are expected to complete the following key tasks:

Act in an international and multicultural context.
Act as a social responsible actor

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to develop the following capabilities:

Understand the complexity of financial regulation and how this impacts strategic and day by day business decision

 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The course gives an overview of the recent innovations in banking and finance. It will touches concepts of Fintech and new sources of financing. It will focus towards positive social outcomes.
Teaching methods
The 5 hours of classes will be divided between 3 hours of classes and 2 hours of workshops.
The course takes place on Tursdays from 8-13.00 Erasme 54
3 Lectures, each of them divided in two parts: Part 1 Theory (50% of lecture time), Part 2 Project development (50% of lecture time)
Lecture 1 – Theory + Project development
Lecture 2 – Theory + Project development
Lecture 3 – Theory + Project development
The project is done by group of 5. It consists in choosing a financial innovation (payment system, fund management, cryptocurrency, …), to present it, its implementation, how it deals with the issue of financial inclusiveness and to present the regulation it has generated.
The output should be a 5-min video in a line of the following one, dealing with mobile phone payment in Kenya. The script should be also provided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kOjg1eqNis
Evaluation methods
Evaluation: Final Exam (50%) + Project (50%)
Faculty or entity
CLSM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Business Engineering

Master [120] in Management

Master [120] in Management

Master [120] in Business Engineering