The world of global tourism and entertainment, banking and financial services, as well as logistics and supply chain is changing rapidly with the emergence of start‐up financial technologies, commonly referred to as FinTech, that are not only empowering or disrupting the status quo, but are shaping almost all the services industries. This course will discuss the scope of FinTech that defined by WeBank (ABCD) or by AntFinance (BASIC) as well as how they changed the way people live, how companies operate, and how government regulate. This course will provide students with the latest empowering and practical knowledge on FinTech enabling them to understand some FinTech changes taking place currently and the trends that will impact different industries in the future.

CILO-1: Evaluate and analyse the current and future impacts of FinTech technologies and services on different industries, such as, tourism and entertainment as well as banking and finance. CILO-2: Differentiate the major technologies and services of FinTech either that defined by WeBank (ABCD) or by AnFinance (BASIC). CILO-3: Apply practical industry, investor, financial, and entrepreneurial skills enabling to potentially identify a need in the business world and launch their FinTech start‐ups.