THE FINTECH OPPORTUNITY 2.0
MARTIN PASEK
This course is designed to provide students an intense immersion into a fintech company. After a short introduction to the fintech ecosystem, students will organize themselves into small groups and choose a startup or established fintech to assist in dealing with their current and relevant strategic, operational or financial challenges. The students will select the company from a list of potential candidates, research the relevant challenge to resolve, and then work with the venture capital investor and/or the company’s senior management to tackle the issues. Specific projects may include market landscape research, product development, product-market fit, client acquisition strategy, financial projections, competitor analysis, regulatory challenges, or strategic partnerships. Students will be able to choose to work with fintechs from payments, neobanks, online lenders, peer-to-peer lending, insurance, wealth management, exchanges, accounting, and others.
Due to the real-time nature of the issues facing the fintech, actual fintechs and their projects will be assigned at the start of the module.
Martin is a versatile and dynamic finance professional with over 20 years experience in senior financial and legal roles across private and capital markets gained with top-tier global investment banks. He is currently a merchant banker (entrepreneur, investor, advisor) in a number of ventures, where he utilises his skills to provide management and advisory services. Martin has a unique perspective in understanding how startup through large organisations can innovate, scale and compete on a global basis. He is involved in fintech, biotech, healthcare, mining, agriculture, social impact and other businesses.
The objective of the module is to enable students to learn about a specific fintech via hands-on experience and then share that experience with others in the class.
The learning goals are:
- Learn about companies in various segments of the fintech ecosystem
- Gain insights into the real life challenges that fintechs and their venture capital investors face
SKILLS:
-Financing
-Deal Structuring
-Startups
-Entrepreneurship
-International Business
ABOUT MARTIN
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
DATE: 27 Apr - 15 May, 2020
DURATION: 3 Weeks
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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DATE: 27 Apr - 15 May, 2020
DURATION: 3 Weeks
LECTURES: 3 Hours per day
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus
COURSE TYPE: Offline
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COURSE OUTLINESession 1
Fintech Ecosystem Introduction
Session 4
Fintech Company Introductions
Session 3
Fintech Company Introductions
Session 2
The Venture Capitalist & the Fintech
THE FINTECH OPPORTUNITY 2.0
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries" by Susanne Chishti & Janos Barberis (Wiley, 2016)
"Fintech in a Flash: Financial Technology Made Easy by Agustin Rubini"
(Banking Innovations, 2017)
This course is designed to provide students an intense immersion into a fintech company. After a short introduction to the fintech ecosystem, students will organize themselves into small groups and choose a startup or established fintech to assist in dealing with their current and relevant strategic, operational or financial challenges. The students will select the company from a list of potential candidates, research the relevant challenge to resolve, and then work with the venture capital investor and/or the company’s senior management to tackle the issues. Specific projects may include market landscape research, product development, product-market fit, client acquisition strategy, financial projections, competitor analysis, regulatory challenges, or strategic partnerships. Students will be able to choose to work with fintechs from payments, neobanks, online lenders, peer-to-peer lending, insurance, wealth management, exchanges, accounting, and others.
Due to the real-time nature of the issues facing the fintech, actual fintechs and their projects will be assigned at the start of the module.
"Disrupting Finance: FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century" by Theo Lynn, John G. Mooney, et al. (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)
Harbour.Space is a university created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We focus on meeting the demands of the future, while traditional education providers are too often stuck in the past.
We’re one of the only European institutions completely dedicated to technology, design and entrepreneurship, and our interdisciplinary courses are taught by some of today’s leading professionals. Our aim is not only to equip students with the knowledge to take on the real world, but to nurture, create and shape tomorrow’s tech superstars.
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