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2024 unit information
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include 3 face-to-face contact hours each week (1 x 3 hour seminar) for on-campus students.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
1 x 3 hour on-campus seminar (recordings provided) each week
1 x 3 hour recorded seminar each week and 1 x 1 hour online seminar (recordings provided) offered in weeks 4, 8 and 11
This unit focuses on the connection between banking, finance and technology. Students will learn how this emerging sector uses the technology to improve and make financial services more accessible to the wider public. Topics such as digital payments and remittances, crowd funding, blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be covered. Case studies to be explored include P2P (Peer to Peer) funding, digital currency (Bitcoin), settlement (Blockchain) and financial advisory.
Explain how banks and other financial service providers respond to emerging financial technology.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO2
Compare and contrast diverse financial services and technologies to evaluate emerging practices for enhancing the quality of delivery.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO5: Problem solving
ULO3
Use Excel or other statistics software to develop, implement and evaluate an optimal trading strategy on cryptocurrencies.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO3: Digital literacyGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO4
Propose new solutions using emerging technologies to improve the delivery of financial services to the broader community.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
Assessment 1: Report (Business)Part A: (Individual) Written reportPart B: (Group of 3) Written Report
Part A: Week 4
Part B: Week 7
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library at the link here: MAF716 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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