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Master of Science - MSc
University of Salford - Peel Park Campus
Full Time
Jan 2027
1 Year
Financial technologies are no longer peripheral innovations-they are now central to the redefinition of global financial systems, business models, and regulatory paradigms. The MSc Financial Technologies responds to this systemic shift by offering a programme that is not merely reactive to industry trends, but proactively designed to shape the future of financial practice. Traditional finance education often fails to integrate the pace, complexity, and ethical challenges of digital transformation. This programme addresses that gap by fusing technical fluency with strategic insight, enabling graduates to critically engage with the technologies, data infrastructures, and governance models that underpin contemporary finance. Sectoral Urgency: FinTech is disrupting legacy institutions, creating new asset classes, and challenging regulatory norms. There is a pressing need for professionals who can lead innovation responsibly and navigate emerging risks. Interdisciplinary Demand: Employers increasingly seek talent that combines financial acumen with data science, blockchain literacy, and ethical foresight. This programme cultivates that hybrid capability. Educational Purpose: Beyond skills, the programme fosters reflective, values-led leadership. It prepares graduates to interrogate the societal impact of financial technologies and to design inclusive, resilient financial futures. By embedding innovation, criticality, and co-creation into its core, the MSc Financial Technology positions itself not just as a degree, but as a strategic intervention, developing leaders who will shape the next generation of financial systems with integrity and vision. To find out more, learn more about our master's courses in business, finance and law. CQF Institute; We are proud to collaborate with the CQF Institute, giving MSc FinTech students free membership, access to global quantitative‑finance networking opportunities, and priority updates on CQF Institute events, research, career tools, workshops and thought‑leadership resources.
In this module, you will learn Power BI, a powerful data visualisation/business analytics service from Microsoft. In Power BI, you can import and merge data from multiple sources, including the cloud, and construct interactive, rich, dynamic visualisations and dashboards with an intuitive interface. Features on Excel are extended in Power BI, hence more advanced visual approaches are possible without having any coding skills. The module will provide hands-on Power BI training so you can extract insights from big data from multiple sources using graphs, tables, and maps and make interactive dashboards.
This module will equip you with the ability to analyse the FinTech industry. The module focuses on the external factors affecting this industry, including the economic and regulatory environment, micro and macro risks and how to mitigate these. You will be given plenty of opportunities to extract policy and managerial implications relevant for FinTech firms.
FinTech companies heavily depend on machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and data science to simplify financial decision-making and optimise solutions. In this module, you will learn and apply a range of established Big Data and analytics techniques to critically analyse information and propose solutions to FinTech and other financial sector problems. You will gain a core set of skills and expertise in relevant programming languages and computational modelling skills such as Python and artificial intelligence and data mining to generate data-driven insights for new and existing financial services and products. On successful completion of the module you will not only be able to collect and analyse data to underpin business decisions, but also be able to work effectively in the development of innovative FinTech data analytics technologies.
Technological innovation is changing the way businesses operate and how they deliver products and services. Financial technology (FinTech) companies are transforming the financial services sector, providing new financial products and a seamless customer experience. In this module, you will gain a multi-dimensional perspective on what FinTech means and gain the expertise to develop disruptive FinTech innovations. You will: Look at how to identify and work with different products and services involved in the FinTech financial ecosystem; Apply enabling technologies to potentially create new financial services and products; Learn cutting-edge programming languages used in FinTech data analytics. On successful completion of the module you will not only be able to work effectively in the development of innovative FinTech technologies, but also contribute finance and business insights and understand the big picture.
After completing the core modules, you will then undertake a 60-credit project, choosing from the following: - Internship - Placement - Project
This module gives students the basic foundations of how modern capital markets function. The main objectives of the module are to: Provide insight into the basic mechanics of capital markets and the different types of submarkets; Give you an understanding of the different types of financial products that are available and how they are traded; explore different models that can be used to understand the behavior of capital markets and how they can be tested empirically; Use modern econometric methods such as time series analysis and high frequency data to explore the behavior of financial market instruments in practice.
The module will equip you with the skills of interpreting how disruptive FinTech innovations are developed, using appropriate tools and techniques. You will discuss the future of money, economy and financial marketplaces. You will look at both theoretical and practical understanding of how the financial services industry has been transformed through the adoption and use of digital innovation and information technologies. More specifically the module will look at blockchain, cryptocurrency, payment infrastructures, digital economy, FinTech ecosystem and crime detection, forensic analytics.
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