Gain the financial technology (FinTech) skills essential for a career in tomorrow’s financial institutions.The FinTech industry will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the UK alone and is already worth £7-billion to the UK economy.
With developments in computing continuing to accelerate, understanding their applications to financial markets will make you highly employable in a variety of industries.
The BSc offers you the opportunity to gain experience at the cutting edge between finance and computer science.
You’ll develop quantitative and analytical skills as well as your coding and programming capabilities. You have access to our Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab, located in the Business School, and to Thomson Reuters service platforms.
This allows you to take part in real-time financial and trading simulation, supervised by academic and industry experts.
You also benefit from having an Academic Success Adviser who can help you with academic study skills including critical thinking, presenting, academic writing and note-making.