CMG335 Fintech Personal Finance and Payments Syllabus:

CMG335 Fintech Personal Finance and Payments Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

UNIT I CURRENCY EXCHANGE AND PAYMENT

Understand the concept of Crypto currency- Bitcoin and Applications -Cryptocurrencies and Digital Crypto Wallets -Types of Cryptocurrencies – Cryptocurrencies and Applications, block chain, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning. Fintech users, Individual Payments, RTGS Systems, Immediate Page 54 of 90 Payment Service (IMPS), Unified Payments Interface (UPI).Legal and Regulatory Implications of Crypto currencies, Payment systems and their regulations.Digital Payments Smart Cards, Stored-Value Cards, EC Micropayments, Payment Gateways, Mobile Payments, Digital and Virtual Currencies, Security, Ethical, Legal, Privacy, and Technology Issues

UNIT II DIGITAL FINANCE AND ALTERNATIVE FINANCE

A Brief History of Financial Innovation, Digitization of Financial Services, Crowd funding, Charity and Equity,. Introduction to the concept of Initial Coin Offering

UNIT III INSURETECH

InsurTech Introduction , Business model disruption AI/ML in InsurTech  IoT and InsurTech ,Risk Modeling ,Fraud Detection Processing claims and Underwriting Innovations in Insurance Services

UNIT IV PEER TO PEER LENDING

P2P and Marketplace Lending, New Models and New Products in market place lending P2P Infrastructure and technologies , Concept of Crowdfunding Crowdfunding Architecture and Technology ,P2P and Crowdfunding unicorns and business models , SME/MSME Lending: Unique opportunities and Challenges, Solutions and Innovations

UNIT V REGULATORY ISSUES

FinTech Regulations: Global Regulations and Domestic Regulations, Evolution of RegTech, RegTech Ecosystem: Financial Institutions, RegTech Ecosystem: StartupsRegTech, Startups: Challenges, RegTech Ecosystem: Regulators, Use of AI in regulation and Fraud detection

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:

1. Swanson Seth, Fintech for Beginners: Understanding and Utilizing the power of technology, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform,2016.
2. Models AuTanda, Fintech Bigtech And Banks Digitalization and Its Impact On Banking Business, Springer, 2019
3. Henning Diedrich, Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Wildfire Publishing, 2016
4. Jacob William, FinTech:TheBeginner’s Guide to Financial Technology, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
5. IIBF, Digital Banking, Taxmann Publication, 2016
6. Jacob William, Financial Technology, Create space Independent Pub, 2016
7. Luke Sutton, Financial Technology: Bitcoin & Blockchain, Createspace Independent Pub, 2016