Fintech MQF LEVEL
6
STMARTINS.EDU/COMPUTING
TOTAL CREDITS: 7ECTS
This unit gives an overview of the typical services offered in the financial sector along with the challenges faced in such environment. Hence, it provides the setting and background into how such sector is being shaped by the constant developments and improvements in technology. Fintech technologies bring together a wide variety of services including retail, banking, payment systems, loans and insurance. At the end of this unit the student will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to: — identify the requirements and provide an initial design of a system which can handle the problem at hand; — research about existing tools, frameworks and API’s which could potentially be used as part of a large system; — research and identify ways through which different tools, frameworks and API’s can be integrated, to communicate and share knowledge across different components of a system. The assessment for this unit will be computed using the following weighting system: — 30% Assessed Coursework — 70% Examinations
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