Location:
QuantUniversity Meetup
5/22/2017
Fintech 101
2016 Copyright QuantUniversity LLC.
Presented By:
Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP
sri@quantuniversity.com
www.analyticscertificate.com
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Slides will be available at:
http://www.analyticscertificate.com/fintech
• Founder of QuantUniversity LLC. and
www.analyticscertificate.com
• Advisory and Consultancy for Financial Analytics
• Prior Experience at MathWorks, Citigroup and
Endeca and 25+ financial services and energy
customers.
• Regular Columnist for the Wilmott Magazine
• Author of forthcoming book
“Financial Modeling: A case study approach”
published by Wiley
• Charted Financial Analyst and Certified Analytics
Professional
• Teaches Analytics in the Babson College MBA
program and at Northeastern University, Boston
Sri Krishnamurthy
Founder and CEO
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Quantitative Analytics and Big Data Analytics Onboarding
• Trained more than 1000 students in
Quantitative methods, Data Science
and Big Data Technologies using
MATLAB, Python and R
• Launching
▫ Analytics Certificate Program
(Summer)
▫ Fintech Certification program (Fall)
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• May 2017
▫ Deep Learning Workshop – May 30,31st
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• June 2017
▫ Machine Learning Workshop – June 8th, 9th
 New York & Online : http://www.analyticscertificate.com/MachineLearning
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Events of Interest
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• New York
• Chicago
• Washington DC (Coming soon)
QuantUniversity meetups
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• According to World Economic Forum, over the past three years
more than $1.4 billion has been invested to explore and implement
uses of Distributed Ledger Technology in the financial services
industry
Fintech in the news
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• CFA Survey 2016
Fintech in the news
https://www.cfainstitute.org/Survey/fintech_survey.PDF
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• CFA Survey 2016
Fintech in the news
https://www.cfainstitute.org/Survey/fintech_survey.PDF
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• CFA Survey 2016
Fintech in the news
https://www.cfainstitute.org/Survey/fintech_survey.PDF
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Bitcoin
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Fintech education becomes serious
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Fintech being noticed by Regulators
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• According to the IOSCO Research Report on Financial
Technologies(Fintech):
“The term Financial Technologies or “Fintech” is used
to describe a variety of innovative business models
and emerging technologies that have the potential to
transform the financial services industry ”
What is Fintech?
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Offer one or more specific financial products or services in an
automated fashion through the use of the internet.
Unbundle the different financial services traditionally offered by
service providers -- incumbent banks, brokers or investment
managers.
For example:
• Equity crowdfunding platforms intermediate share placements
• Peer-to-peer lending platforms intermediate or sell loans
• Robo-advisers provide automated investment advice
• Social trading platforms offer brokerage and investing services
Innovative Fintech business models
Ref: https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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• Technologies like:
▫ Cognitive computing
▫ Machine learning
▫ Artificial intelligence
▫ Distributed ledger technologies (DLT)
can be used to supplement both Fintech new entrants and
traditional incumbents, and carry the potential to
materially change the financial services industry.
Emerging technologies
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
Drivers
• Generational shift
▫ Millennials more open to newer mediums and technologies
• Technology growth
▫ Mobile
▫ Internet
• Computing power
• Broader accessibility and decreasing cost of products and services
• Increasing disintermediation and re-intermediation
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Global Fintech Landscape
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Global Fintech Landscape
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https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Comparison websites
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Financial Aggregator Websites
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Robo-advisers
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Social media and Sentiment analysis
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Innovative business models
https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
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Source: Finra Digital Advice report 2016
https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/digital-investment-
advice-report.pdf
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Which one to choose?
https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/digital-investment-
advice-report.pdf
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https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/digital-investment-
advice-report.pdf
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https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/digital-investment-
advice-report.pdf
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The future
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Thank you!
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Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP
Founder and CEO
QuantUniversity LLC.
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