FinTech Seminar
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Description
This seminar features speakers from a range of backgrounds (practitioners and researchers, entrepreneurs and representatives from large financial institutions) offering insights into the current trends and topics in Fintech. Students will use a set of references as a starting point for an in-depth term paper on a topic covered by a speaker, and complete the report with additional information from the speaker's presentation.
- 08 October
Dr. Michel Neuhaus, UBS
Artificial Intelligence - and why it's relevant to UBS - 15 October
Paolo Giudici, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Network models to improve credit risk estimation - 29 October
Madan Sathe, EY
Digital analytics to fight financial crime - 12 November
Hansen Wang, Melonport
Blockchains in Finance - 26 November
Dr. Oliver Kuster, Avaloq
Non-hierarchical Agile Organisations - Avaloq's way of change - 3 December
Dr. Zarko Milosevic, Tendermint
Termination mechanisms in Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocols
REFERENCES
- References will be provided by the instructors on a per-speaker basis.
Education
- Master of Science in Financial Technology and Computing, Core course, Lecture and Seminar, 2nd year