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Faculty of Fintech & Financial Innovation

Payments, open banking and digital assets, taught as a practitioner discipline.

This faculty teaches how money actually moves through modern systems. Students begin with account structures, card and bank rails, and the UK/EU regulatory backdrop, then progress to designing open banking and embedded finance products, and finally to advanced work in digital assets, tokenisation, custody models and treasury operations. Every level is assessed through applied briefs modelled on real product and operations decisions.

Focus areas

  • Payment rails and settlement
  • Open banking and APIs
  • Embedded finance and wallets
  • Digital assets, stablecoins and tokenisation
  • Financial product design

Where graduates go

  • Fintech product analyst
  • Payments operations specialist
  • Open banking implementation consultant
  • Digital assets analyst

Curriculum pathway

Three levels, each with its own aim, entry expectations and assessed outcomes.

Level 1 — Fintech Foundations

Typically 8 weeks

Understand how accounts, payments and regulated financial products work end to end.

Assessed outcomes

  • Explain card, bank and instant payment rails
  • Describe the UK and EU regulatory perimeter
  • Map a payment journey from initiation to settlement

Entry expectations

Open to all. No prior finance or coding experience required.

Programmes at this level

Programmes for this level are being written and will appear here once published and rights-verified.

Level 2 — Fintech Practitioner

Typically 9 weeks

Design and evaluate open banking, embedded finance and wallet products.

Assessed outcomes

  • Design an open banking integration and consent flow
  • Assess embedded finance commercial models
  • Produce a product risk and compliance brief

Entry expectations

Completion of Level 1 or equivalent industry experience.

Programmes at this level

Programmes for this level are being written and will appear here once published and rights-verified.

Level 3 — Advanced Fintech & Digital Assets

Typically 10 weeks

Lead work on digital assets, tokenisation, treasury and settlement architecture.

Assessed outcomes

  • Evaluate custody and tokenisation models
  • Design settlement and treasury controls
  • Defend an architecture decision to a risk committee

Entry expectations

Completion of Level 2 and a completed applied project.

Programmes at this level

Programmes for this level are being written and will appear here once published and rights-verified.