Certified Fintech Practitioner

About the Programme

Financial services is a fast-evolving industry. Fintech is becoming the new normal and without the right skills and knowledge, you could be left behind.

Developed with Fintech Nexus, this six-week programme will give you the understanding you need to lead a team and advance your career. And it’s a great opportunity to network.

You will learn:

how fintech is impacting business models across banking and finance
the benefits and applications of key technologies and how they influence financial product and services design and distribution
how risk and regulation is affecting fintech development across the globe
different strategies for growth, and
the factors that determine success, such as funding, valuation, collaboration and exit.

Who is the Programme for?

Certified Fintech Practitioner (CFP) is for early to mid-career professionals, with some experience of either banking or financial technology. The programme is ideal if you’re looking to expand your understanding of fintech business models to:

make yourself more effective in your current role, or
prepare for taking the next step in your career.

Topics are offered in bitesize chunks to help you fit studies around your busy schedule. And if you need to come back to the learning after the course, you’ll find it’s still available for 12 months after the programme.

Applications for Certified Fintech Practitioner are currently closed, please check this page again soon for updates!

We also have five scholarships available to women already working in fintech or the broader financial services sector who are keen to expand their knowledge of the global Fintech ecosystem and who have recently commenced, or are looking to move into, a first management role.

More information on Women in Fintech Scholarships to follow once applications open.

“An energetic course to keep abreast of everything that is happening in the fintech field – with strong speakers from the market and where everyone is well involved in discussions.” – Gerwin Woelders, Chief Digital Officer of η!Transformers, the Netherlands

See more details about the CFP programme content

Studying

All of our Faculty have worked in the industry so offer practical insights as well as theory. Each week you’ll explore a topic through:

short video lessons
recommended reading
quizzes so you can check your understanding
self guided research and reflection.

Each week we bring the learning to life with two short live webinar sessions, that include:

interviews with fintech founders
case studies
group discussions, and
question and answer (Q&A) sessions.

You’ll then be directed to relevant content from Fintech Nexus – a respected media company dedicated to financial services innovation. You’ll hear leading industry players discuss the topic in question and related areas.

Throughout the programme, you’ll hear from guest speakers about the latest strategies and opportunities in the market. Previous speakers have included senior leaders from:

Divido
Raisin
Nucoro
Pennyworth Financial
Codat
Fluidly
Kalgera
Vacuum Labs.

And you’ll reflect on your learning in a journal, which the course team will review as part of your assessment.

When you successfully complete the programme, you’ll gain Certified Fintech Practitioner status. This comes with a digital badge that you can use on your website, social media and email signature.

The Programme

Indicative Content

Topic 1: Sectors and models
Digital banks, neo banks and challenger banks – what are they and how do they stack up against incumbents?
- Challenger banks: an attack from many angles
- Today’s dynamic reality
- Value propositions: non-banks versus traditional banks
- The regulatory challenges of establishing challengers and neos
- The regulatory challenges of establishing challengers and neos.
WealthTech and Robo-advisory
- Incumbent versus disruptive business models
- Genuine innovation or opportunistic hype?
Alternative and Embedded Finance
- Business models: genuine disruption or a shift in distribution?
- Alternative finance: the best answer for SMEs?
Topic 2: Technology
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- What is AI/ML? Talk nerdy to me
- Data innovations: traditional and alternative sources of information
Blockchain and Crypto
- Definitions, features, types and main uses of the blockchain in the financial markets
- Differences between crypto-currencies, bitcoins and crypto-assets
Topic 3: Payments and Open Banking
Payments
- Segmentation of the payments market
- Business models, ecosystem and underlying infrastructure
- Latest trends in the market
Open Banking
- Different models around the world
- Open banking to open finance
- Case studies and examples on successful approaches
Topic 4: Regulation & Emerging Markets
- RegTech and regulation Loan book realities: lessons from the Covid crisis
- Is regulation stifling innovation?
- Global landscape: collaborate, compete, harmonise
- Managing risk in digital products and services
- Bridges and sandboxes
Emerging Markets
- Unbanked demographic
- First generation mobile money
- The next leap forward
Topic 5: Sustainability and Growth
Fintech and sustainability
- Fintech for carbon accounting
- B2C fintech business models for positive change
- B2B fintech business models for positive change
- Sustainability beyond carbon
Funding
- How fintechs are funded and valued at different stages of maturity
- Today’s dynamic venture capital environment
- Exit strategies
Partnerships
- Incumbent fintech partnership models
- How to partner internally
Additional information about this course

Certified Fintech Practitioner is ideal preparation for the LIBF Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Banking and Fintech. Those holding Certified Fintech Practitioner status who register for the Postgraduate Certificate will receive a full refund of their CFP fees.

About LIBF and Fintech Nexus

In Certified Fintech Practitioner, Fintech Nexus and LIBF have partnered to combine their respective strengths – deep experience of delivering high-quality effective learning and the latest thinking and contemporary perspectives on the topics that really matter – to create a programme that delivers the skills, knowledge and insights professionals need to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

Fintech Nexus is the largest media and events company dedicated to innovation in fintech. They operate three major conferences annually for the USA, Europe and Latin America markets, along with focused networking events, a digital community and daily news department. Like much of the economy today, financial services is experiencing a rapid upheaval. We are seeing a multi-decade transformation where fintech will take centre stage as everything becomes digital. Fintech Nexus is there for you, reporting the news daily, enabling real time discussion and insights and empowering the community with connections and in-depth learning at live events.

The Fintech Nexus team believes that there has never been a more exciting time to be in financial services and is proud to be your trusted guide on this journey

The London Institute of Banking & Finance

The London Institute of Banking & Finance is a not-for-profit educational and professional body incorporated by Royal Charter. We are the first professional institute worldwide to gain the power to award our own higher education degrees and have a 140-year heritage in delivering world-class, professional financial education in the banking and finance sector.

You will be learning on our new VLE Brightspace, click on the logo to find out more.

This course is delivered in conjunction with Fintech Nexus

CFP comes with an eye-catching digital badge, which you can use on your website and in other digital communications. Existing and prospective clients can click on this to see the skills, knowledge and ethos that your CFP status demonstrates.

Wonderful

“The course is a wonderful six weeks, full of knowledge, and presented by experts who really added a lot to my knowledge”.

Osama Elramadi, Workers National Bank - Marketing, Digital Banking Products Act, Manager

Superb

“The amount of material I have had at my disposal was superb and the quality has been to the highest possible standard. I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. Using the learning journal was an excellent touch and I will be recommending this course to my contacts. The exposure it has given me has allowed me to look at FinTech in a different way, understanding the processes involved”.

Ryan Finn, Sobell Rhodes LLP – Managements Accounts, Bookkeeping & Cloud Accounting Advisor

Recommend this course to my colleagues

“In my day-to-day job I look into our end2end processes, how to improve them by eliminating the failures and improving the value demands, This course has helped me to understand how FinTech can support improving a process, especially under the current COVID-19 restrictions while maintaining good, efficient, and reliable service. I will definitely be investigating further some of the options to support our customers and will definitely recommend this course to my colleagues”.

Ouafae Smethurst, Lloyds Bank International – Customer Journey Analyst

Remarkable journey

“FinTech Practitioner Course has been a remarkable journey. The program was exceptionally well designed, it started off with the basics and quickly scaled up. I’ve been in the fintech industry for a while but still found a lot of areas where the program helped fill in gaps in my knowledge. Thank you to everyone involved, Helene, Chris and others who helped to make this great program”.

Gilberto Hackl, OneBlinc

You prepare people to carry out skills in the real world

“You prepare people to carry out skills in the real world, keep up the good work! What I have learned in this course I will be able to apply in the real world”.

Zia Ur Rehman, TD Bank – Lead Operations Officer

Helped me to deepen my knowledge with FinTech by linking theories

“The course helped me to deepen my knowledge with FinTech by linking theories into practice through success stories and real-life cases”.

Mohammed Moustafa, Commercial International Bank-Egypt – Digital Transformation Officer

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Interest

If you are interested in the programme from either a personal or organisation perspective and would like to receive further information we would be delighted to hear from you.