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Course No
رقم المساق
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Course Name
اسم المساق
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Credit hours
الساعات المعتمدة
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Course Description
وصف المساق
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| 29114 |
Introduction to FinTech |
3 |
This course gives an overview of all the changes, which are
happening now in the financial industry and discusses how some of the FinTech processes are
being constructed. Each FinTech disruption concept is based on a mathematical of behaviour
concept, which is backed by data, analysis and technology. This course goes into detail into
some of these processes, so give an understanding as to what is the business model, skill, and
future of FinTech in the financial services industry. It will also cover the recent progresses on
FinTech development and applications. Although the topics may vary in order to keep pace
with the FinTech development, they mainly involve case studies, practical challenges, trends,
and opportunities in a FinTech career. |
| 29115 |
Financial Management |
3 |
The material covered in this course can be summed up as a “Guide
Book for New entrepreneurs”. It has seven basic objectives: to introduce the business
environment as an important factor in the birth and survival of new businesses, to emphasize
the importance of the business idea, to familiarize the student with the sources of initial capital,
to review the basic financial tables and tools, to have the student draw up and write his own
realistic business plan, and to acquaint the student with the procedures linking businesses with
banks and other institutions of the financial markets, help to prepare students with a conceptual
frame work for understanding and analyzing decision took by management. |
| 29116 |
COMPUTER PROGRAM/ PYTHON |
3 |
It covers the basics of programming in Python including
variables, expressions, loops, conditions, lists, strings, functions, and standard and file I/O in a
hands-on fashion. It also covers, at an introductory level, some Object-oriented programming
aspects like classes, modules and packages. Students will acquire algorithmic thinking and
debugging skills via solving a multitude of programming exercises in-class and as homework
assignments. Other important common programming practices like naming rules, commenting
and handling errors will also be highlighted.
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| 29117 |
FinTech Ecosystem and Innovations |
3 |
This course discusses the existing and future
landscapes of FinTech in the world financial system, from incumbent financial firms to
FinTech startups. Both traditional and new players are working with policy-makers to define
the ecosystem, to encourage innovation, adoption while maintaining regulatory oversight.
Also, aims to provide a structured approach in designing, developing and implementing
solutions, leveraging on financial technology to address real-world issues. It introduces the
structure and design of a fintech ecosystem, the dynamics among its elements, and the roles of
various participants in it. It then discusses the Silicon Valley mind-set and examines the basic
elements of a fintech start-up with the characteristics of successful enterprises that can scale.
Real-world cases are employed for the students to understand the risks and opportunities in
fintech business. After the course, students are expected to have gained a good understanding
of what it takes to raise a seed round of funding for a fintech start-up. |
| 29118 |
Corporate Finance |
3 |
This course presents the theory and practice of corporate finance. It
covers the instruments and practices of the corporate finance with close reference to the
relevant theories and current issues. This course is designed to cover the topics such as capital
budgeting, cost of capital, present value, valuing stocks, capital market efficiency, and valuemaximization. On successful completion of this course, all students will have developed
knowledge and understanding of: Corporate Form of Organization & Corporate Governance,
Brief Overview of Capital Budgeting, Capital Markets and Capital Structure, Debt Policy,
Payout Policy, Corporate Valuation & Mergers/Acquisitions, Credıt and Inventory
management, Cash and liquidity management. Also, This is a two pronged course. The first
part covers analyses of the time value of money. This part includes illustrations with specific
reference to current cases regarding the management of cash. The second part deals with the
procedures and instruments that prevail in the relationship between the firm and money and
capital markets. Particular attention is devoted to the stock exchange including regulations
pertaining to initial public offerings and listings. Also, this course will give the students
detailed information about capital budgeting, capital market line, security market line, risk and
return, cost of capital, financial leverage and capital structure policy (i.e. long-term financial
policy) and short-term financial planning. |
| 29119 |
Investments management |
3 |
This course introduces topics relevant for students who want to
understand the modern framework for evaluating investment opportunities. It combines key
elements of managerial accounting and finance, as well as modern portfolio and asset pricing
theory. After completing this course, students will be able to apply the core tool of analytic
finance to assess the value of company projects, including those undertaken by start‐ups. They
will also be able to analyze financial market conditions to recommend investment strategies. |
| 29120 |
Money and Banking |
3 |
This course is designed to explain the importance of money and banking
to economic activity. This course offers a systematic analysis of monetary theories and the
financial system. Apart from exposing students to different approaches in monetary analysis,
the course places a special emphasis on the up-to-date analysis of how information costs affect
financial structure and monetary policy. The course will cover the structure and importance of
the financial system, the functions of money, behavior of interest rates, financial structure and
asymmetric information, bank management and regulation, debates on macroeconomic and
monetary policies, the targets and instruments of monetary policies, the transmission
mechanism of monetary policy and its effectiveness, money and inflation, rational expectations
and its applications. |
| 29121 |
Financial Markets and Institutions |
3 |
This course is designed to provide students with a basic
knowledge of financial institutions and markets play in the business environment. The banking
system, the interest rates, the derivatives, and the Federal Reserve System will be analyzed in
this course. On successful completion of this course, all students will have developed
knowledge and understanding of Financial environment; Role of Financial Markets and
Institutions,Securities traded in Primary and Secondary Markets, Derivatives, spot and forward
and future markets, Monetary Authorities,Monetary Policy , Money Markets, Capital Markets,
Supply and Demand for loanable funds Other Lending Institutions: Savings Institutions,Credit
Unions, and Finance Companies, Managing Risk off the Balance Sheet with Derivative
Securities. Types of Risks Incurred By Financial Institutions.
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| 29122 |
Financial Statement Analysis |
3 |
The basic objective of this course is to consider the tools and
techniques for the interpretation of Financial Statements. This course also aims in analyzing
balance sheet and income statement, obtaining a result about the financial position of a
company, evaluating the financial condition of a company in a sector, implementing horizontal
and vertical analysis to the company, and evaluating the progress of a company by creating
trend analysis are the basic topics of the course. On successful completion of this course, all
students will have developed knowledge and understanding of: Measuring and Estimating
Costs, Accrual-based Versus Cash-flow-based Performance Measures, The Analytical Income
Statement and Balance Sheet. |
| 29123 |
Digital business |
3 |
The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and basic
principles related to D-Business from a managerial perspective and discusses the motivations
behind the adoption of D-business applications and their impact on the performance of the
organization and its competitive advantage. The course also examines the changes that occur
on the general strategies of the companies resulting from the integration between the traditional
business practice with the modern information technology and information systems. Basic
focus in this course is on analyzing the variables of the D-business environment and the
analyses of D-business models and developing D-business strategy in addition to the concepts
of E-commerce, D-marketing and CRM, and Digital operation. The course ends with a linkage
between D-Business and Business intelligence concepts. |
| 29124 |
Insurance and Risk management |
3 |
This course develop an understanding of what is risk, and
the main structure of risk models and how it can be measured, why it is interested in individuals
at risk, and why the companies at risk. The application of the risk management process on two
main areas of concern for companies: the risk of liability and financial risks. However, the
insurance section discusses the fundamental knowledge of insurance comparing, including the
required economic theory of insurance corporations, insurance classification scheme, the
insurance environment, insurance in risk management, and the main risk factors affecting the
insurance companies. In addition, to the legal framework of insurance corporation, and the
functions of insurance companies. |
| 29125 |
Intermediate Accounting |
3 |
This course will deep dive into the problem
of financial inclusion and use of Tech as a Force of good. Students will learn about how
financial markets develop and how legacy systems operate but how they totally exclude the
last mile. |
| 29126 |
Fundamentals of FinTech Entrepreneurship |
3 |
This course illustrates the essential knowledge and concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial process. The course focuses on designing and developing Web-based applications using a variety of programming languages and tools.
Students will be exposed to Internet application development architecture. Class projects include developing business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) applications, among others. We will learn to create web pages using Open source paltforms specifically Wordpress and joomla. Topics also include e-commerce platforms, open cart,shopify,Woocommerce.We will learn customization concepts using cascading style sheets. We will then venture into web scripting with Java scripts and other tools , the primary for web applications development. It is a flexible, scalable and easy to use platforms. PHP is currently used in more than fifteen million web sites and you will learn as part of the curriculum
what this language is all about. With increased familiarity on PHP, we will introduce mySQL, an open source and reliable database management system that is rapidly acquiring a worldwide
user base. The goals for the class is as such are that on completion of the course, students will understand the challenges, technologies, and issues in developing and deploying Web-based
applications. Also, the student will be able to apply the systems approach to business problems; be part of a team that helps solve a business problem that involves information technology.
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| 29127 |
Introduction to Cybersecurity & Risk Management |
3 |
this case-based course, students will
be introduced to the field of cybersecurity through the world of security governance and risk
management. Throughout this program, students will practice applying foundational concepts
of security governance and risk management including: Creating security strategies that align
with a company’s goals and objectives. Applying risk assessment techniques to real-world
situations. Implementing effective security education, training, and awareness programs. |
| 29128 |
Financial Modeling |
3 |
Develop strong computer skills in financial analysis by
integrating conceptual material with spreadsheet-based numerical solution and simulation
techniques. This course is meant to help students build, understand, and use tools prevalent in
applied finance. students will be doing things that practitioners do. This means that this course
helps students prepare for real world applications of corporate finance and investments. Over
the past few decades Excel has become a ubiquitous tool for modeling and financial decision
making. A strong familiarity with Excel is a must in the business world. This course will help
you build familiarity and confidence. students will complete and apply models used in typical
finance and investments practice. Topics include the time value of money, financial statement
analysis, project analysis, capital budgeting, portfolio analysis, and securities and options
valuation. |
| 29129 |
Cost and Managerial Acconting |
3 |
This course aims to give an understanding of how management accountants provide information to facilitate decision-making in an organisation. On completion of this course, students should be able to determine product costs, formulate budgets and standards for planning and control, understand the role of responsibility accounting and performance measurement, and explain contemporary thinking in management accounting. |
| 29130 |
Data base |
3 |
The objective of this course is to assist the student in understanding the basic theory
and concepts of Database Systems, Relational database model, Database Design, and Database
Manipulation Language, and to apply these basic theoretical principles in developing database
applications.
The course includes Information models and systems; data modeling, relational database
model, structured query language; relational database design; entity-relationship (ER)
diagrams, ER to relational mapping, physical database design, transaction processing concepts,
and functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases.
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| 29131 |
BLOCKCHAİN |
3 |
This course is an introduction to Blockchain technology along with its
programming. Topics to be covered include: what is the Blockchain, brief history about
Blockchain, Blockchain Vs. legacy systems, public Vs. private Blockchain, shared ledger, and
smart contracts. Some Crypto Currencies will be introduced including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and
Litecoin. The course also introduces some concepts including Wallets, Exchanges, blocks, the
structure of a block, Merkle Trees, mining, Cryptographic Hashes, and consensus algorithms.
The course also discusses some Blockchain applications, use cases, and financial services. An
introduction to Blockchain programming will be given, helping students to build their own
mini blockchain using some programming language such as Solidity, Python or C++. |
| 29132 |
Financial data analysis |
3 |
In today's world, good decision making relies on data and data
analysis. This course helps students develop the understanding that they will need to make
informed decisions using data, and to communicate the results effectively. The course is an
introduction to the essential concepts, tools and methods of statistics for students in business,
economics and similar disciplines, although it may have wider interest. The focus is on
concepts, reasoning, interpretation and thinking rather than computation, formulae and theory.
Much of the work will require students to write effectively and communicate their ideas with
clarity. |
| 29133 |
MACHİNE LEARNİNG |
3 |
The course introduces a set of approaches and applications of machine
learning. It also presents the students with the latest machine learning techniques and the impact
of their application to different areas. The topics covered in the course include the motivation
behind ML, its application areas, the feature space. classification techniques, clustering
techniques and regression techniques. The course then presents a set of
machine learning methods such as artificial neural-networks, support vector machine, k-mean
clustering, linear regression, principal component analysis.
bayesian classifier, decision tree, ensemble methods and introduction to deep learning.
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| 29134 |
Pactical Phase One.Part I /Fintech Startup… |
3 |
On successful completion of this training phase, students will be able to:
1. Have a comprehensive overview of the FinTech space – technologies, the applications
and the startup ecosystem
2. Appreciate the role of technology in financial services and how it can provide solutions
to key corporate challenges.
3. Develop an understanding of how FinTech is reconfiguring financial services business
models and how they are different from the traditional business models
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| 29135 |
Practical Phase One. part II / Fintech Startup…. |
3 |
4. Distinguish between financial and industrial innovation and the regulatory framework,
the pros and cons of financial innovation,
5. Understand the FinTech entrepreneurial landscape and the opportunities and challenges
associated with startup cycle |
| 29136 |
Practical Phase Two. Part I/ IT Technical |
3 |
On successful completion of this training phase, students will be able to:
1- Understand the technologies shaping the future of finance
2- Enhance the students’ capabilities in programming and problem solving skills
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| 29137 |
Practical Phase Two. Part II/ IT Technical |
3 |
3- Learn more about develop structured programs utilizing functions
4- Build and Practice Information systems models
5- Compare different consensus algorithms |
| 29138 |
practical Phase Three. Part II/ Technical Fintech visualization |
3 |
5. Identify business opportunities and propose feasible solutions using new technology
available.
6. Identify the threats and opportunities with open banking and “mother of all apps” with
government oversights and controls.
7. Blockchain technologies and adapt them to a specific application |
| 29139 |
practical Phase Three. Part I/ Technical Fintech visualization |
3 |
1. On successful completion of this training phase, students will be able to:
2. Visualize new fintech trends such as Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Intraday settlements, Real time settlements, Peer-to-Peer Transacting,
3. Application of Financial Inclusion and the spread of API driven fintech applications.
4. Visualize and Analyze traditional and evolving business models in investment and financial service industry. |
| 29140 |
practical Phase Four/ Fintech entrepreneurship and innovation |
3 |
On successful completion of this training phase, students will be able to:
1. Go beyond FinTech hype with the skills to drive innovation initiatives
2. Explore the potential for partnerships between incumbents, new age tech companies,
and investors
3. Identify who is currently adopting and driving financial innovations using real-world
examples to assess the changes, disruptions, and adaptations resulting from the rise of
FinTech solutions
4. The use of modern communication technology to serve the development of society,
5. More interest to innovation and creativity as a key factor for entrepreneurial success.
6. With this acquired knowledge, the participants are motivated to learn the essential skills
of business model analysis and innovation, customer development, entrepreneurial
leadership, and lean startup.
7. Practical FinTech case study and real project analysis form integrate parts of the whole
teaching and learning process to ensure the relevance of the knowledge and skills in
this FinTech subject domain. |
