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  "title": "Fintech Market Development and Policy Implications (FINTECH)",
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  "summary": "After an overview of the fintech landscape, the course will focus on several areas that are rapidly developing in recent years: fintech payments, fintech funding, crypto assets and decentralized finance.",
  "publishDate": "2023-09-06",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Course presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Designed to give participants a foundation in understanding new financial technologies (fintech) and the associated policy implications.\n- After an overview of the fintech landscape, the course focuses on: fintech payments, fintech funding, crypto assets, and decentralized finance.\n- Discusses risks arising from fintech developments and explores possible policy responses.\n- Uses lectures, extensive case studies, and group work to provide practical experience useful for participants' jobs.\n- Topic: Financial Sector Issues."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- Mid-level to senior officials from the central bank and other government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.\n- Preference given to applicants working on:\n  - Financial development and inclusion.\n  - Supervision and regulation of new financial technologies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or finance or equivalent work experience.\n- Strong recommendation that applicants first complete the Financial Sector Policies (FSP) course."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Define and understand fundamental Fintech concepts.\n- Explain the economic rationale for various Fintech tools and their implications for the financial services industry.\n- Identify key risks and regulatory concerns over:\n  - Financial stability\n  - Financial integrity\n  - Security\n  - Consumer protection\n  - Other relevant aspects\n- Recognize international regulatory responses to Fintech developments."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Teaching Methods and Key Topics",
      "content": "- Combination of lectures, extensive case studies, and group work to ensure practical experience.\n- Key topic areas:\n  - Fintech payments\n  - Fintech funding\n  - Crypto assets\n  - Decentralized finance\n- Emphasis on analyzing risks and exploring policy responses tailored to developments in these areas."
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    "Designed to give participants a foundation in understanding new financial technologies (fintech) and the associated policy implications.",
    "After an overview of the fintech landscape, the course focuses on: fintech payments, fintech funding, crypto assets, and decentralized finance.",
    "Discusses risks arising from fintech developments and explores possible policy responses.",
    "Uses lectures, extensive case studies, and group work to provide practical experience useful for participants' jobs.",
    "Topic: Financial Sector Issues.",
    "Mid-level to senior officials from the central bank and other government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.",
    "Preference given to applicants working on:",
    "Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or finance or equivalent work experience.",
    "Strong recommendation that applicants first complete the Financial Sector Policies (FSP) course.",
    "Define and understand fundamental Fintech concepts.",
    "Explain the economic rationale for various Fintech tools and their implications for the financial services industry.",
    "Identify key risks and regulatory concerns over:",
    "Recognize international regulatory responses to Fintech developments.",
    "Combination of lectures, extensive case studies, and group work to ensure practical experience.",
    "Key topic areas:",
    "Emphasis on analyzing risks and exploring policy responses tailored to developments in these areas."
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