Certification by the prestigious IIT Madras Pravartak (8 Months)
Prepare yourself for the Future of Finance
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
361 DEGREE MINDS & Alphabeta.io (New York)
8 months (including hands-on project)
Certification by the prestigious IIT Madras Pravartak
IITM Pravartak is funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, under its National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems, and hosted as a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) by IIT Madras. The NM-ICPS is a comprehensive Mission aimed at complete convergence with all stakeholders by establishing strong linkages between academia, industry, Government, and International Organizations.
361 Degree Minds is an ed-tech company founded by three BITS Pilani alumni. It offers online program management services to universities, corporates, government and non governmental organizations. 361Online DM is part of CL Educate, one of the few listed education and test prep companies in India with presence in India, the Middle East, the United States and Africa.
ALPHABETA, a New York based company, offers its unique platform to educate students in investment strategies and Portfolio Management. Its pedagogical approach using an “active learning space” makes complex concepts of finance intuitively simpler for learners. The proprietary app, US Patent approved is targeted at graduate, undergraduate, high school students, investment managers, traders and wealth managers.
Post Graduate Certification program in Financial Technologies (FinTech)
Certification from IIT M Pravartak, the technology innovation hub of IIT Madras and IIT M Research Park
Financial technologies (FinTech)
Financial technologies (FinTech) is the use of digital technologies to provide financial services — Ex: online banking, mobile payment apps, and peer-to-peer lending
How does fintech work?
Fintech helps banks and financial services organizations as also their customers to manage their operations more efficiently; improve how they deliver their services to consumers
Online banking
All online banking transactions are the result of fintech
Digital wallets
All digital wallet transactions are the result of fintech
Personal Finance Management
Helps users track income, expenses, and spending habits
Cryptocurrency
A form of digital currency that uses technology to make financial transactions safer
A.I
Provides customized financial advice for consumers to achieve their financial goals; help detect fraud
As finance morphs into Fintech, an effective finance education platform should prepare students around the globe for the competition and challenges of the future workplace by creating a version of the same in college or educational institutions today.
The programme has been designed by leaders of alphabeta.io, a fintech company based in New York and founded by ed-teach veterans with over 30 years industry experience. The structure has been designed to collaborate with educational and financial institutions in an open and extensible manner to progressively enrich the programme and bring engaging and effective fintech learning with universal access
Program mentors
Kirthi Ramakrishnan, President and CEO (30 years in financial services and fintech – Served in Cognizant, Financial Models, BBVA Bancomer – BE from Anna Univ, MBA from Tulane)
Siva Visveswaran, Chairman and CTO (25 years in technology – BFS CTO and Founder of Tech Arch Group, Cognizant – Worked in Cognizant, IBM, PwC, TCS – BS from BITS Pilani, MS from Wayne State, MA from Delaware)
Unique Program Design
Getting the job is hard: A virtual workforce means a global workforce, everyone will be competing against each other everywhere for jobs.
Doing the job is harder: Once they are in, the work will be dramatically different for “Run, Change, and Create the Bank” jobs across the front, middle and back offices:
Run the Bank: less formulaic, more creative. Less of “how do I sell this product to this customer”, more of “how do I custom design a solution to suit the client.”
Change the Bank: less incremental, more disruptive. Less of “how do I improve the system”, more of “how d I eliminate or transform the system.”
Create the Bank: not either, but both Wall Street and Silicon Valley – “how do I combine the Google-like technological innovation with Goldman-like financial innovation”
Program Delivery
- Live classes by Industry experts and program mentors:
- Classes – 4 hours every weekend
- Async content by Program Mentors will be available as part of curriculum. This content has been created with support from Alphabeta Mentors with long domain experience.
- The students will be divided into groups of five each – a mix of business / tech and design capability (Optional)
- Every group will get 4-6 weeks for capstone project
What Will You Learn
| Modules | Duration / Session | ||||
| Online Async | Faculty led | Self Study / assigments / quizzes | |||
| 1 | Introduction to Fin Tech | 5 | 8 | 4 | |
| 2 | Running a modern FS line of business (Investment Management) | 6 | 12 | 4 | |
| 3 | Building new FS Service / business / product | 6 | 12 | 3 | |
| 4 | Building a decision layer in Augmented Intelligence environment | 6 | 12 | 3 | |
| 5 | Building execution Layer using Distributed Ledger / Distributed Finance | 6 | 12 | 3 | |
| 6 | Building User Experience Layer Mobile / Web | 6 | 8 | 3 | |
| 35 | 60 | 20 | 115 | ||
| Capstone Project | 35 | ||||
| Total hours | 150 | ||||
Hands-on Experience of the fintech sector
Master key concepts on how technology is impacting and changing the world of financial services and how it is creating new products and services that are user oriented
AI /ML Applications in fintech
Learn to use applications that help people in financial services us an augmented intelligence environment for decision making
Decentralized Finance and Blockchain
Learn to build a financial execution layer using distributed ledger / distributed finance. emerging peer-to-peer financial system that uses blockchain and cryptocurrencies to allow people, businesses, or other entities to transact directly with each other.
User experience in product and services
Learn to build a user experience layer – designing a mobile-first experience from onboarding to customer experience
Program Highlights
The PGP model rubrics for assessment / certification
- Attendance – 20 % Class
- Assignments – 20 %
- Capstone project – 60 %
Who Can Join the Program
- B.Tech (CSE / ECE / I.T / related backgrounds) – freshers – job seekers / working professionals
- MCA / M.Sc (I.T) – freshers / job seekers / working professionals BCA / B. Sc (CS) – Working professionals with 3 Yrs exp in tech
- MBA – Working professionals / Fresh graduates with engg /Science background
- MBA – II Year students with tech / engg / math background
Prerequisites:
- Fluency in English
- Basic idea of programming in C++ / Java / Python