FinTech: Shaping the Financial World
MIT Sloan's look at how technology is remaking financial services, covering artificial intelligence, deep learning, blockchain, and open APIs as forces changing business models, products, and customer interfaces in banking and finance. The course lays out the major players and market structure in the FinTech space, from payments startups to incumbent banks, and examines the regulatory questions that arise as these technologies scale. Students work through the mechanics of blockchain and distributed ledgers, the promise and limits of AI-driven financial products, and how open banking APIs are reshaping competition. Materials are published through MIT OpenCourseWare and include the syllabus, readings, and assignments used in the original Sloan School of Management course, free to access with no certificate offered.