Education
The center’s educational mandate will comprise primarily non-degree certificate programs and executive education programs. It will collaborate and complement the current FTEC degree program offered by JSOM’s Finance Area.
The center will sponsor a variety of non-degree Executive Education programs:
Focused Open Enrollment Programs
These are programs that will target specific groups of professionals, policymakers, and practitioners. These programs will focus on specific groups of professionals that face similar problems. Examples of such target groups include digital asset management, roboadvising, AI for trading, blockchain-enabled financing (ICO/STO), SPAC development and token economics.
Custom Programs
These are Executive Education programs in Fintech that will target a particular entity – such as a bank or an insurance company – and offer customized content in response to the specific needs of the entity. Examples of such programs include managing digital assets, tokenization of digital assets, analytics of digital assets, and operational excellence.
Certificate Programs in Fintech
Certificate programs consist of programs that deal with specific problem areas of contemporary relevance such as applied machine learning in finance, NLP for finance, roboadvising, Fintech project management, token design, decentralized app development, etc.
Outreach
The Center for the Management of Financial and Digital Asset Technologies engages in active outreach within the DFW community and corporate industry partners. We target several areas of cooperation and outreach.
First, the center engages with the DFW area’s Fintech and Digital Asset Management companies as well as startups to establish areas of mutual interest. The partnerships allow faculty members to access funding and data, and to conduct use-inspired and practically important research projects.
Second, the center will have an advisory board, to formalize and enhance the engagement with the corporate partners. The advisory board members will provide valuable insights on the target markets, provide networking opportunities for faculty and students, and serve as the advocates for the center and JSOM in general.
Third, the center will host an event that brings together top industry experts to discuss various topics related to Fintech and Digital Asset Management, for example, Fintech and the future of work, Digital Asset Management, FD-Tech education, FD-Tech talent, FD-Tech policy and regulation.