UCL launches the world’s first experiential (theory to practice) Fintech Pathway

UCL’s Masters in Tech Entrepreneurship (Fintech Pathway) combines practical entrepreneurial work with world-class academic training, high-profile expert guest speakers in Fintech innovation, disruption and incumbent Financial Services, and highly experienced Fintech lecturers to round out a year-long accredited degree programme.

The Fintech Pathway students-turned- entrepreneurs (and intra-preneurs) will be exposed to investment and accelerator opportunities including a Pitch Day in front of the world’s leading Fintech Accelerator who will offer a fast track interview to join their programme to one member of the class.

The 10-week Pathway forms part of a fully accredited, year-long degree course and deep dives into areas such as Insurtech, Robo-advisory, Payments and Remittances, P2P lending, Crowdfunding, Blockchain, and Regtech, challenging business models and looking to influence the future of Fintech.

Once successful in the UK, this course will go global in collaboration with high profile universities and tailored Executive Education programmes for the Financial Services industry.

Led & delivered by

HELENE PANZARINO, Lead Adjunct Fellow, former banker turned entrepreneur, educator and investment readiness adviser in Fintech; Inaugural Head of Programmes at Innovate Finance, and co-creator of a Fintech Executive Education programme ‘Harnessing Fintech Disruption in Financial Services’ (2017); Women in Fintech Power List nominee, author of Business Funding for Dummies (Wiley) and named Top 10 Influencer in SME Funding 2016

and

DONALD LAWRENCE Director of Computational Finance at UCL & responsible for cohort of engineering, computer science graduate students on the finance/banking pathway focused on markets, risk management and emerging Fintech.

Their consulting, training and entrepreneurship programmes, hackathons and collaborations include global financial services giants, such as Morgan Stanley, Santander, SocGen, RBS, and Fintech distruptors such as Funding Circle, Duedil, Liberis, FundApps and Sybentix, as well as eco-system engagement with firms such as Balderton Capital, Passion Capital, and Winton Capital, L39, Aviva Digital Garage and Startup Bootcamp.

Expert guest speakers include

Founders, directors and thought-leaders from organisations such as Syndicate Room, Starling Bank, Hellenic Bank, Azimo, Funding Circle, CodeInvest and Blockchain.

Background

According to recent surveys, the majority of people, and in particular, millennials, do not understand the term Fintech yet it has been described as the new Industrial Revolution in our post-global- financial crisis world.

Most people working in incumbent financial services fear the impact that the Fintech disruptors bring and most Fintech start-ups cannot fully comprehend the wider world of financial services into which they thrust themselves, whether it’s to take it over, work with it or become part of it.  Both thirst for true knowledge and the UCL Masters in Tech Entrepreneurship Fintech Pathway and DataSpartan Executive Education Programme can give it to them.