The Fintech Talent Development,Competency, and Manpower Study

The Fintech Talent Development, Competency, and Manpower Study 60 Sources of Fintech Professionals HKU and HKUST Online Programs Well Enrolled at over 10,000 Students Local universities including HKU and HKUST offer online programs in Fintech over established e-learning platforms such as Coursera and EdX. For example, HKUST offers the following online programs in a four-course FinTech Specialization offering on Coursera: FinTech Foundations and Overview, FinTech Security and Regulation (RegTech), FinTech Risk Management, and FinTech Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Society. These programs are well received by local and overseas audiences. Enrollment of these programs from HKU and HKUST has reached more than 10,000 enrolled each. Local Universities Also Teleconferencing Live Classes in 2020’s COVID-19 Situation Compared with asynchronous learning, an alternative delivery mode is synchronous learning which is the primary mode of class delivery of many local and overseas universities amid the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. In this mode, learning follows a fixed schedule with the instructor who delivers the training to geographic-dispersed learners online. Popular platforms used include Zoom and Teams. Many fintech- degree programs offered by local universities are delivered using this mode in 2020. Synchronous learning provides more opportunities for interaction and discussion as compared with its asynchronous counterpart. However, it cannot be scaled up significantly because it still relies on real-time interaction despite participants are in different locations. Of course, the content can be archived and readable by a much larger audience. Other Opportunities for Fintech Education Executive Programs Another form of fintech training follows the traditional in-house and executive education training mode where intensive face-to-face delivery is held within a fixed period of time (e.g. 1-2 days or a week). While the level of interaction and discussion is high, the number of participants is limited and the schedule is less flexible. Local universities including SPACE and HKUST Business School offer short open programs in fintech.