Digital Finance and FinTech GBSB Global Business School

Overview

Since the early 90s Malta has developed into one of the most respectable and fast-growing financial hubs in the world. Operating under high regulatory European standards of compliance with comparatively low operational costs, Malta has established itself as a very lucrative country for foreign investment, offering numerous financial opportunities for a skilled multilingual workforce. 

Currently, Maltese financial institutions are highly concentrated in investment funds, asset and wealth management, fintech and blockchain, as well as insurance and credit management.

Learning Outcomes of the  Digital Finance and FinTech programme from GBSB Global Business School

• 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.