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Beltone Academy is the learning and development arm of Beltone Holding,
This program is in cooperation with our partner Euromoney Learning.
In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, strategic decision-making is critical. This course equips participants with a broad understanding of emerging technologies, fintech trends, and shifting competitive dynamics in the financial sector. Participants will explore digital-era business models, customer behavior, and the strategic implications of technologies like AI, APIs, cloud, RPA, and blockchain.
With a special focus on fintech, and the collaboration between banks and tech companies, the course provides tools to develop future-ready corporate strategies and drive organizational change. This program blends technology insight with banking and strategy expertise, using real-world case studies to build practical, applicable knowledge.
Industry background: Commercial and central banks (incl. retail, private, corporate, and investment) and their governance bodies, fintechs, IT companies, cloud computing companies, credit card companies, payment processors, big merchants (on- and offline), card issuers, acquirers, payment software developing companies, money transfer services, anybody interested in the future of financial services.
Functional area: Mid- and top-level management, project managers, strategy-departments, innovation-departments, marketing departments, consultants, technical experts and developers interested in the business impact of blockchain and other technologies on banking.
Module/Day 1 – Financial services in the digital age
Session 1: Key drivers and new market rules of the digital era
Session 2: Understanding and serving banking customers in the digital age
Session 3: Ticking time bombs in your organization – legacy systems
Session 4: Big Tech in finance: IT titans’ foray into the banking world
Session 5: Developing a strategy for digital transformation and governance considerations
Module/Day 2 – Financial technologies and fintech segments
Session 6: Key drivers and new market rules of the digital era
Session 7: Introduction to fintech, including trends and enablers such as regulation
Session 8: The technological fundamentals: APIs, hardware, cloud, Banking-as-a-Service, AI, machine earning, big data, and RPA
Session 9: The most important fintech segments and notable use cases
Session 10: Developing a fintech strategy
Module/Day 3 – Blockchain and the distributed economy
Session 11: A new trust machine – promise and peril for incumbents
Session 12: Essential concepts in blockchain and digital assets part I
Session 13: Essential concepts in blockchain and digital assets part II
Session 14: Blockchain in the enterprise part I: Governance, risk, and compliance
Session 15: Blockchain in the enterprise part II: IT-security and identity management
Module/Day 4 – Blockchain and digital assets for financial services
Session 16: Blockchain in banking part I: Banking use cases and case studies
Session 17: Blockchain in banking part II: The token economy
Session 18: Blockchain in banking part III: Digital currencies in practice
Session 19: Blockchain in banking part IV: Central banks, regulators, and the law
Session 20: The future of blockchain
Virtual Instructor Led (VIL)
4 Days
Delegates need no prior knowledge to attend this course, but a basic interest in learning about technology is very helpful to quickly get to speed with the basic concepts.
