Masterclass by Dr. Drago Inđić
Masterclass is a condensed version of a full-term level Fintech module where each domain is covered by a dozen original slides used in teaching over 150 MSc/MBA students in the current academic year. The discussion of Fintech cases and topics selected by participants may be continued on-line after the event.
The starting point will be the review of digital transformation of financial services. The principles of top-down fintech regulation will also briefly touch upon the underlying economic theory of platforms economics. The digital identity will be introduced next, including the interplay of personality and money: a personal risk profile.
Payment is a principal fintech use case. Paytech is competing with traditional banking, blurring the difference between the payment and banking apps, and money in fiat and digital form. It represents a stepstone for understanding the emerging competition between central bank digital currencies, stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. Legaltech provide framework for understanding the contracts driving decentralised financial services, and we will address the management of fintech strategy and innovation and case studies of other domains (WealthTech, InsureTech) in the last part, in workshop format.
Saturday 6.5.2023.
09.00-9.45 Digital Transformation
Fintech ecosystem, industrial organisation and regulation. The high-level regulatory taxonomies: Basel, the EU/UK). The foundational policies and macro financial stress impact. Big Tech and Web 3.0 challenges from perspective of global youth.
09.45-10.00 Break
10.00-10.45 Regulation
Financial regulatory compliance. Policy objectives, national and supranational regulators with emphasis on consumer protection and Fintech start-up regulatory licensing. Alternative finance platforms for risk capital.
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-11.45 Digital Identity
Digital identity principles and the updated regulation for decentralised identity (eID and wallets, in the EU and elsewhere). Fintech biometrics, authentication, consent, and on-boarding. Data privacy, encryption, and protection. Customer profiling: financial literacy and investment risk profiling.
11.45-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.45 Digital Money: From PayTech to Blockchains
Digital money. Payments beyond cards: non-card payments and examples of leading national payment systems. Foundational principles of distributed ledgers: tokens, cryptography, consensus. National central bank digital currencies and privacy coins.
14.45-15.00 Break
15.00-15.45 Decentralised Finance
Law in digital form. Contracts in Ethereum and other protocols: stable coins, swaps, lending. From crypto exchanges to decentralised exchanges: challenges in decentralised organisations and governance.
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00-16.45 Q and A
16.45-Late Networking
09.00-12.00 Digital Transformation, Regulation, Digital Identity (with a 15-minute break between modules)
12.00-14.00 Launch break
14.00-17.00 Digital Money: From PayTech to Blockchains, Decentralised Finance, Q and A (with a 15-minute break between modules)
17.00-Late Networking
* Each module is approximately 45 minutes long.
The ticket price for Masterclass by Drago Inđić is 250eur
*The ticket for the Adria Summit 2023 does not include the ticket for the Masterclass
Digital Transformation
Fintech ecosystem, industrial organisation and regulation. The high-level regulatory taxonomies: Basel, the EU/UK). The foundational policies and macro financial stress impact. Big Tech and Web 3.0 challenges from perspective of global youth.
Regulation
Financial regulatory compliance. Policy objectives, national and supranational regulators with emphasis on consumer protection and Fintech start-up regulatory licensing. Alternative finance platforms for risk capital.
Digital Identity
Digital identity principles and the updated regulation for decentralised identity (eID and wallets, in the EU and elsewhere). Fintech biometrics, authentication, consent, and on-boarding. Data privacy, encryption, and protection. Customer profiling: financial literacy and investment risk profiling.
Digital Money: From PayTech to Blockchains
Digital money. Payments beyond cards: non-card payments and examples of leading national payment systems. Foundational principles of distributed ledgers: tokens, cryptography, consensus. National central bank digital currencies and privacy coins.
Decentralised Finance
Law in digital form. Contracts in Ethereum and other protocols: stable coins, swaps, lending. From crypto exchanges to decentralised exchanges: challenges in decentralised organisations and governance.
Fintech ecosystem, industrial organisation and regulation. The high-level regulatory taxonomies: Basel, the EU/UK). The foundational policies and macro financial stress impact. Big Tech and Web 3.0 challenges from perspective of global youth.
Financial regulatory compliance. Policy objectives, national and supranational regulators with emphasis on consumer protection and Fintech start-up regulatory licensing. Alternative finance platforms for risk capital.
Digital identity principles and the updated regulation for decentralised identity (eID and wallets, in the EU and elsewhere). Fintech biometrics, authentication, consent, and on-boarding. Data privacy, encryption, and protection. Customer profiling: financial literacy and investment risk profiling.
Digital money. Payments beyond cards: non-card payments and examples of leading national payment systems. Foundational principles of distributed ledgers: tokens, cryptography, consensus. National central bank digital currencies and privacy coins.
Law in digital form. Contracts in Ethereum and other protocols: stable coins, swaps, lending. From crypto exchanges to decentralised exchanges: challenges in decentralised organisations and governance.
About Dr. Drago Inđić
Dr Drago Inđić is an investment professional, currently lecturing Fintech at several leading British universities (UCL, Queen Mary University and Warwick Business School). Following long career in hedge fund industry, Drago became a serial cofounder and adviser to tech businesses across Europe. He is a Managing Director at Oxquant, an Industrial Professor at the UCL Institute of Finance and Technology and Dozent in Economics (RAF, Belgrade). Drago holds a Dipl Ing from the University of Belgrade and a PhD from Imperial College, London. He is an FCA Authorised Person since 2000, a Member of the IEEE and IET and an EU expert for fintech and machine learning since late 1990s. He was the author of the Guide to Fintech published last year, sponsored by the USAID.
