Section | 1 |
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Instructor(s) | Hall, Dylan (dmhall23) |
Location | RY 277 |
Meeting Times | Tuesday 5:30pm - 8:30pm |
Fulfills | Elective |
Applied Financial Technology (FinTech) is an applied, survey-based course into the concepts and technology underpinning financial innovation today. Themes covered include US equities and trading algorithms, bond valuation, payments APIs, and asset tokenization and are based on the instructor's active and broad experience as a FinTech entrepreneur and passion for finance and economics.
Students will be expected to do some amount of coding in Python or Javascript each week. Work will be group-based throughout the quarter with the exception of an individual final.
Readings also will play a key role in understanding elements of finance which are not specifically related to technology. These foundational concepts will provide the student with a solid appreciation of sound financial innovation across time and avoid some of the trappings of speculative manias that financial innovation can produce.
We will have a weekly, current topics sessions where we do a quick dive into different themes that are timely and in the news. Previous discussions have included cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, inflation, interest rate changes, and more. These enable us to balance a set curriculum with some of the items that emerge unexpectedly each week and also enable us to draw on our growing knowledge of FinTech.
Module 1: US Equities Trading
Programming Languages: & Frameworks
Topics Covered
Module 2: Bond and Mortgage-backed security valuation
Programming Languages & Framework
Topics Covered Include:
Module 3: Payments, identity and credit
Programming Languages & Framwork
Topics Covered Include
Module 4: Asset Tokenization
Programming Languages & Framework
Topics Covered Include
Core Programming
Interest in finance. Some experience with Python and/or Javascript will be helpful but not required.
This course requires competency in Unix and Linux. Please plan to attend the MPCS Unix Bootcamp (https://masters.cs.uchicago.edu/page/mpcs-unix-bootcamp) or review the UChicago CS Student Resource Guide here: https://uchicago-cs.github.io/student-resource-guide/.
This class is scheduled at a time that conflicts with these other classes: