Finance and Fintech (Online) GBSB Global Business School

Overview

The Finance and Fintech (Online) programme from GBSB Global Business School incorporates traditional finance courses covering core analytics, from managerial and financial accounting, statistics and quantitative methods, to financial management, but also provides an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the theories and evolution of FinTech, data-driven financial modelling, financial data mining and machine learning, financial data analytics, and new innovations in the financial sector, spanning AI, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, cloud computing, crowd funding, and much more.

This Online Business Bachelor with Finance & FinTech degree programme aims to provide students with a solid, comprehensive foundation in the area of finance, gaining necessary practical skills, digital literacy and disruptive knowledge to pursue competitive professional and academic careers in finance upon graduation.

Learning Outcomes

• Understands professional theoretical and practical knowledge related to business administration, including both broad knowledge in the field of business administration and a considerable degree of specialized managerial knowledge in digital innovation;

• Possesses advanced professional knowledge of business administration and digital innovation in a specific industry or functional area chosen as an elective option in the undergraduate programme;

• Critically understands approaches to promoting the culture of digital innovation within an organization by managing talent and knowledge and by incorporating the values of entrepreneurship, continuous learning and digital transformation into organizational strategic objectives;

• Understands managerial methods and digital technologies that are in demand in the complex and challenging global business environment, innovation in terms of methods and technologies used, and implications of digital technologies for individuals and societies;

• Demonstrates professional understanding of issues of digital business and how it can be interpreted with different theoretical approaches;

• Critically understands the principles included in the Agenda for Sustainable Development defined by UNESCO that are associated with social welfare, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility.