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Learner Reviews & Feedback for FinTech: Foundations, Payments, and Regulations by University of Pennsylvania

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About the Course

In this course, you’ll learn the key components of modern-day investment strategies which utilize fintech. Professors Natasha Sarin and Chris Geczy of the Wharton School have designed this course to help you understand the complex structure of payment methods and financial regulations, so you can determine how fintech plays a role in the future of investing. Through analysis of robo-advising and changing demographic forces, you’ll learn how basic elements of trust underlie complex choice architecture in investments and impact investing. You’ll also explore payment methodologies and how fintech is emerging as an entrepreneurial solution to both investments and payment systems. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to identify different financial technologies, and understand the dynamic between the innovations and regulations, and employ best practices in developing a fintech strategy for yourself or your business. No prerequisites are required for this course, although a basic understanding of credit cards and other payment methods is helpful....

Top reviews

BB

Feb 11, 2022

Elaborate and easy to understand the basic concepts in Fintech. Both the instructors are very good and explained in a way which is easy to understand.

Looking foward to complete the certification.

RI

May 24, 2020

Nice introductory course to FinTech. However, I do not recommend the course for learners without prior knowledge on financial instruments as the course may become technical from time-to-time.

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By Tomás

Jun 24, 2022

A good overall introduction to Fintech.

By Brad T

Nov 10, 2023

A bit dated, but overall a good primer

By davis n a

Dec 27, 2020

informative program by all standards.

By Chiara B

Aug 26, 2020

Really good introduction and overview

By Fernando B

Aug 6, 2019

A bit to vague, but very interesting!

By Karim J

May 31, 2020

A good course to get a headstart!

By GUINGO M K

Aug 31, 2024

Très bon cours , bien documenté.

By Никита К

Mar 31, 2020

Not too much of Fintech examples

By Zephyr F

Jan 5, 2023

Too many definitions

By qiuyu h

May 18, 2022

Great introductin

By Patrick O

May 15, 2020

Short but sweet.

By Syed U B M

Jun 25, 2022

Good course

By Mazen F

Jun 24, 2019

Great Intro

By xuguang r

May 9, 2022

Too easy.

By VIGNESH K A

Dec 29, 2022

Good

By Dr G K S

Aug 14, 2020

good

By Sriman B

Aug 14, 2020

ok

By Stirling R

Jan 6, 2022

Many of the slides, and virtually all of the transcripts (which I assume are auto-generated), contain spelling and grammar errors. Both professors tend to show slides that contain a lot of text and then continue to talk while the slide is being displayed. I often had to pause the video to absorb the info on the slide, and sometimes put the video back a few seconds after reading it. For these slides, it would be more helpful to simply read the slide aloud before providing commentary. I would have liked more modules by Sarin and fewer by Geczy (both professors are very knowledgeable, but Sarin's demeanor is more comforting and relatable).

By Ngoc A D

May 22, 2021

This course is more relevant to policy makers and academics than from daily user's point of view. Lecturers should have gone more into the practical aspects instead of listing down tons of facts and data that most of us wouldn't really remember.

The payment section should cover the latest payment technologies like e-wallets, QR codes etc. instead of just rushing through the list of technologies. There's also a too extensive focus on the US markets, while actually there's a lot of potential and interesting use cases in developing markets that learners should know about.

By Toản T

Sep 29, 2021

The course provides fundamental knowledge about the FinTech. But from my point of view, the big picture of FinTech was not described enough. This course knowledge was developed mainly through the western financial industry while lots of new FinTech business models are being generated and expanding world-wide from Asia (China, India,...) Don't forget that Chinese invented the paper money and now they are re-innovating the future of not only payment but also financial industry. Theses factors could play a very important role in how we shape the regulations.

By Rohit T

May 4, 2022

Following points need to be included in the course

1. The Course Material is at least 5 -6 years old . Should be updated based on latest Tech and status.

2. The Course Material talks only of US whether as Other Countires have moved ahead of US in Fintech.

3. Global examples are not covered in this course.

4. Looks like this couse is only for US citizens who dont know the outside world

By Sanjiv P

Aug 14, 2022

The material, though relevant, is dated. Also, a more balanced view of regulation would be more appropriate. In general, the fundamental assumption is that FIntech needs to be regulated. The challenge is that in a relatively borderless financial world, created by crypto currency, there is little regulatory influence possible.

By Eduardo A

Aug 11, 2020

The course is informational. Natasha Sarin is a great presenter, but for some reason she mentions Elizabeth Warren no less than five time during her presentations. There are some typos on the slides, that make me feel like not much attention has been put into the details of the course design.

By ASHANK S

Jun 7, 2020

The Course offers good insights, though It also throws a lot of data to you.

I would urge the curators of the course to focus more on learning the basics and little on cramming up data. For example, most of the quizzes test your ability to remember data points rather than the concept itself.

By Bayan

Sep 3, 2021

I suggest providing the course materials ( sildes) before the video since the speakers are moving fast from a point to another. Having the sildes after finisihing the unit makes me want to go back and study the unit again with the materials in my hand for better understanding.

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