LEADING DIGITAL MONEY MARKETS

$ CostUS$1 500pp

This course consists of a global tour of noteworthy experiences on digital

money systems currently in use.

COURSE DETAILS:LEADING DIGITAL MONEY MARKETS

Twelve week8-10hrs per week

CertificationFletcher School, Tufts University

LEADING DIGITAL MONEY MARKETS THE GLOBAL DIGITAL FINANCE LANDSCAPE

The rise of over-the-topsuper-platforms: China

Roadmaps for the journey

How the global internet majors are playing the field:

the US & beyond

Architecting a digital money grid from the

ground up: IndiaIndependent study week

WEEK 1 WEEK 2&3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5&6 WEEK 7

• Course overview

• The fintech stack

• Tracking progress in financial

inclusion

• Reflections on countries' digital

readiness

• Chinese DFS in perspective

• The Chinese financial sector & its

evolution

• Chinese fintech: who are the

innovators

and what are their business models?

• Fintech and techfin business models

& approaches

• Financial regulatory landscape in

China

• Regulating fintech in China

• Policies to promote financial inclusion

& cashless society

• What have we learned about & from

China?

• The device players: Apple &

Samsung

• The social media players: Facebook

& Google

• The retailers: Amazon, Uber,

Starbucks & Walmart

• Third-party merchant

payments: PayPal, Square & Stripe

• Digital identity & Aadhaar

• Interbank infrastructure & IMPS

• Payment interfaces & UPI

• Other aggregation & standardization

initiatives

• Connecting people: JAM & PMJDY

• G2P payments

• Service providers: land grab & beyond

• The India Stack

LEADING DIGITAL MONEY MARKETSTHE GLOBAL DIGITAL FINANCE LANDSCAPE

More integrated, more competitive, more private: European policy initiatives

Telco-based mobile money: Africa

From Africa to Asia: Agents take center stage

Building inclusive & interoperable systems

from scratch: Peru, Jordan & Rwanda

Summary and implications

WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11 WEEK 12

• SEPA 1: Payments integration &

harmonization in Europe

• SEPA 2: Stepping up

competition &

innovation through PSD2

• Privacy by design

• Sweden, a North Star

• The African mobile money

landscape: where is it happening?

• The archetypal model: the case of

Tigo Pesa

• Challenges and opportunities for

African MNOs in evolving the model

• Regional integration: The SADC

Integrated Regional Electronic

Settlement System

• An African MMO agent network

story: The case of Zoona

• Using OTC to build scale: The

EasyPaisa story in Pakistan

• A non-deliberate approach to OTC:

The case of bKash in Bangladesh

• OTC: A necessary step or missed

opportunity and scenarios for evolving

out of it

• The principles and architecture of an

inclusive and interoperable payment

system

• Evolving from mobile money to mer-

chant payments: mVISA in Rwanda

• Driven by industry: Peru's BIM

• Driven by government: Jordan's

JoMoPay

• Stacking up the innovations

• A horizontalising industry

• International standard setting

• Implications for policy

makers and providers

AN INNOVATIVEAPPROACH TOONLINE LEARNINGAll our courses are delivered through our custom designed digital campus. Our teaching materials are delivered in a number of formats and incorporate a variety of pedagogical styles, including video lectures, digital classroom discussions, bi-weekly calls, weekly reading materials, weekly assessments and case work, which will all need to be completed.

Students can go through the materials in their own time, but they will also participate in discussions on the materials in their digital classrooms and share insights from their experiences. Throughout our courses students will be required to complete and participate in various exercises, which will balance demonstrating command and understanding of core concepts,

applying these concepts through case work and fact-finding to apply relevance and in-country context to the concepts. Students are required to engage throughout the course duration in order to pass and receive certification.

The varied locations, roles, and industries of the participants in our digital classes ensure that discussions both online and offline provide an opportunity for peer learning, an important part and key ingredient of the learning process, where different perspectives on the subject matter and insights into topics that previously may not have been considered relevant are brought to light. It also presents an opportunity for peers to highlight key learnings from their specific markets.

In line with global best practice, DFI blends online resources with facilitated face-to-face meetings in markets where there is a large enough contingent of students and Alumni to support them. We actively support and nurture these Communities of Practice as an extension of the learning process, allowing for a powerful shared knowledge base in each market.

The Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI) prepares tomorrow’s fintech leaders for the challenges and opportunities they will encounter in this fast-changing and disruptive industry. We are a not-for-profit established in 2015 by David Porteus, Gavin Krugel and Ignacio Mas to bridge capacity gaps that exist in the digital financial services (DFS) profession with a view to accelerating financial inclusion, especially in developing markets. We do this through continued learning and mentoring, as well as providing a global network for professionals who work in DFS.

To date DFI has trained & connects more than 2500 professionals globally. Our students represent more than 600 organisations in 85 countries.

ABOUT DFI

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