Digitalisation and FinTech is disrupting the banking sector and it is essential for sector professionals to understand what it implies for their businesses.
With this in mind, PwC’s Academy, the education and training business of PwC, has designed a suite of fit-for-purpose Digital Banking course to help banking leaders and professionals understand different concepts in detail and learn how to transform their businesses.
This course provides an overview of the current status quo and aims to ask the right questions to adjust to the business model to survive in the future. The workshop is very interactive, with case studies, short presentation, videos and group works.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the importance of FinTech
- Learn from the sharing economy on which clients to target to future revenue stream
- Recognise the biggest competitor to the financial industry
- Gauge the regulators' stance
- Identify areas where FinTech will revolutionise your banking and finance business
- Spot processes that can be enabled by digitalisation
- List the threats Fintech poses to the banking and financial industries
- Appreciate the changes required in the banking business model
- Recognise FinTech start-up companies
- Identify already existing threats from non-banks
- Explain blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the future of currency
- Learn about Big Data and AI
This course is ideal for business professionals who do not have a technical / IT background, irrespective of whether they are at entry level or are experienced professionals, who are looking to understand the Digital Banking and Fintech applications and learn how to apply them.
In this course, participants will cover:
Day 1: The stories of Enablers and Disruptors
- Introduction
- The 4th Industrial Revolution
- Examples of digitalisation in all areas of life
- FinTech: Speed of execution
Day 2: Enabling Banking and Finance
- Banking today
- Banking the future – the digitally enabled bank
- FinTech as an enabler of banking services
- Team exercise: How FinTech enables and disrupts banking and financial services
- Case studies on digitally enabled banks
- Regulation
- The attack on the payment systems
Day 3: The real disruption of banking and money
- Payment technology arms race
- Digitalisation of money
- Distributed ledger technology explained
- From fiat currencies to cryptocurrencies
Day 4: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
- Cryptography and digital signatures
- How does the blockchain work?
- Blockchain demo
- Security and practical issues
- Cryptocurrencies
- Analysing and trading cryptocurrencies
- Initial coin offerings (ICO)
- Applications of the digital ledger technology (DLT)
Day 5: Big data, artificial intelligence and business model innovation
- Big data
- Digitalisation of the business model: the game changer
- Artificial intelligence
- Business opportunities
- Business model innovation
- End of course game
There are no scheduled dates for this course. Fill out the form to check future dates or deliver the course in-house