## FinTech Specialization

FinTech covers technology-enabled business model innovation in the financial sector. Such innovation can disrupt existing industry structures and blur industry boundaries, facilitate strategic disintermediation, revolutionize how firms create and deliver products and services, create significant privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement challenges, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, and seed opportunities for inclusive growth. Examples of innovations that are central to FinTech include cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, digital advisory and trading systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, peer-to-peer lending, equity crowdfunding and mobile payment systems.

Faculty Advisors:

[Professor David Yermack](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), <dy1@stern.nyu.edu>
[Professor Alex Tuzhilin,](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alexander-tuzhilin) <at2@stern.nyu.edu>

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Course List

Take 9 credits from the following list:

**Course Number****Course Title**ACCT-GB.2170Accounting and the BlockchainINTA-GB.2313Fintech Experiential Learning ProjectINTA-GB.2380Foundations of FinTechFINC-GB.2328Real Estate Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, &amp; Machine LearningFINC-GB.2375Managing Climate, Cyber, Geopolitical, and Financial RiskFINC-GB.2390AI in Finance FINC-GB.3180Topics in Cryptocurrency InvestingFINC-GB.3324Digital Currencies, Blockchains, and the Financial Services Industry FINC-GB.3332Portfolio ManagementFINC-GB.\*FinTech Personal Finance and Payments FINC-GB.3360Introduction to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)FINC-GB.3362Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: FinTechOPMG-GB.2150Decision Models and AnalyticsOPMG-GB.2350Decision Models and AnalyticsTECH-GB.2147Databases for Business Analytics\*\*\*TECH-GB.2148Dealing with DataTECH-GB.2318Digital StrategyTECH-GB.2336Data Science and AI for Business: Technical\*\*TECH-GB.2346Dealing with Data TECH-GB.2350Robo Advisors and Systematic TradingTECH-GB.3332Introduction to AI and Its Business ApplicationsTECH-GB.3336\*\*Data Science and AI for Business: ManagerialTECH-GB.3350Financial Information Systems

\* Course number forthcoming
\*\* Not eligible to count towards this specialization if this course was taken as part of your core requirements (Full-Time two-year MBA students only).

\*\*\*Note: TECH-GB.2146 and TECH-GB.2147 are equivalent courses. If interested in this course, MBA Students should enroll in TECH-GB.2147

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