Certified Fintech Practitioner

About the Programme

If you’re working – or planning to work – in a fintech or a digital team in financial services, this programme is for you. Developed jointly by LIBF and LendIt Fintech, it will help you operate as an effective leader and support your career development.

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Expand and formalise your knowledge of fintech business models – and gain a recognised credential – in just six weeks. Registration for the June 2021 session is now closed. Please register your interest for the next session.

Who is the Programme for?

Over this six-week online interactive course, you’ll look at:

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.

What’s included in your fee?

Two to three hours of live virtual lessons each week plus guided self-study
Access to the course website – containing a study guide, reading materials, recordings of live webinars and a range of pre-recorded video content – throughout the programme and for six months afterwards
On successful completion, a digital Certified Fintech Practitioner credential that can be shared on your social profiles such as LinkedIn
A year’s free access to Lendit Fintech Digital – a membership-based online community with exclusive content and networking opportunities – worth £450
A 15% discount on tickets to LendIt Fintech conferences and events for a year from when you register

You’ll learn from our Faculty, who’ve all worked in financial services, digital innovation or led startup businesses. And 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

Who is the programme for?

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.

Progression

Certified Fintech Practitioner is excellent preparation for our Postgraduate Certificate in Fintech. If you register for the Postgraduate Certificate in Fintech after successfully completing Certified Fintech Practitioner, we will refund your CFP fees.

Course dates

The course has already started but please register your interest in the next one using the registration form below.

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Studying

You will study Certified Fintech Practitioner entirely online and learn through a combination of weekly live virtual classes and workshops with self-paced individual study.

Each week your instructor will guide you through a topic:

exploring the key points
providing case study examples, and
giving you the opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences with your classmates.

You’ll then be directed to a range of relevant content from LendIt Fintech – a respected media company dedicated to financial services innovation – where you’ll be able to watch and listen to leading industry players discuss and share their views on the topic in question and related areas.

Finally, each week you will be encouraged to reflect on what you have learnt and consider how it might apply to your own situation or organisation by completing a short learning journal.

At the end of the programme, to gain Certified Fintech Practitioner status, we’ll ask you to submit your journal for review by the course tutor.

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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.
Wealth 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
From Data to Decisions: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing
- What is AI/ML? Talk nerdy to me
- The cloud stack, and benefits, explained
- Data innovations: traditional and alternative sources of information
Blockchain, DLT and digital currencies
- Definitions, features, types and main uses of the blockchain in the financial markets
- Differences between crypto-currencies, bitcoins and crypto-assets
Topic 3: Regulation & Emerging Markets
Risk & 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
Fintech in Emerging Markets
- Unbanked demographic
- First generation mobile money
- The next leap forward
Topic 4: Payments, Open Banking & PSD2
Payments & Infrastructure
- 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 5: Growth and collaboration
Funding and growth
- How fintechs are funded and valued at different stages of maturity
- Today’s dynamic venture capital environment
- Exit strategies
Partnerships and collaboration
- 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 LendIt

In Certified Fintech Practitioner, LendIt Fintech 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.

LendIt Fintech is the largest media and events company dedicated to innovation in lending and digital banking. Today we operate three major conferences annually for the USA, Europe and Latin America markets, along with our digital community and our daily news organisation.

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. LendIt Fintech is there for you, reporting the news daily, enabling real time discussion and insights with LendIt Fintech Digital and empowering our community with connections and in-depth learning at our physical events.

The LendIt Fintech team believes that there has never been a more exciting time to be in financial services. We immerse ourselves in all things fintech so we can be your 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.

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This course is delivered in conjunction with LendIt Fintech.

Register Your
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.