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Where to Find Your Next Affordable Online Fintech Course

You know a business niche has come into its own when a major university starts offering certification courses. In this case, MIT is offering a FinTech certification course for a mere $2,300. The MIT FinTech course is being offered completely online. It’s unclear whether the certfication will improve what is happening in financial technology, but lectures include some of the biggest names in the FinTech niche, including:

  • Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple
  • Jeremy Allaire, Founder of Circle
  • Rene Reinsberg, VP at GoDaddy
  • Christine Loredo, VP at Yodlee
  • Michael Casey, senior advisor of Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab

That’s just to name a few.
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3 Online FinTech Courses Worth Considering

While MIT wasn’t the first organization to offer a finance and technology certification course, they are the biggest name to do so. For example, last year CFT (Certificate in Finance and Technology) opened its doors to offer certification exams in cities around the world. However, their program seems to be geared toward traditional finance professionals who want to expand their knowledge of technology. Whereas the MIT course is more geared toward entrepreneurs who want to establish a product or service and seek venture funding. 

Another innovative online FinTech course is Fintech 101, geared toward current professionals in finance who want to learn about FinTech and how it is disrupting legacy banking and financial operations.

All of these courses have their place, of course, and serve a necessary purpose for keeping financial professionals up to date on the latest developments in one of the world’s longest running professions. Still, if you want to get even more basic, this 1-hour Udemy course will take you by the hand and lead you to FinTech preschool. It’s a good place to start if you don’t know what FinTech stands for.

Other Financial Technology MOOCs Worth Considering

We live in a world of MOOCs (massive open online courses). If you’re looking for a few to take your finance career to the next level or you want to see what all the fuss is about by marrying finance and technology, then you might be interested in checking out these online schools (many of them are free):

  • Coursera– coursera offers MOOCs in several disciplines for major colleges and universities around the world. Finance is just one of their categories.
  • Khan Academy– Khan Academy provides online education for all ages from elementary school to adult. Their finance courses aren’t as extensive as Coursera’s, but they’re worth checking out.
  • Class Central– Their inventory of finance MOOCs is fairly extensive.
  • PwC– Price Waterhouse Coopers offers a whole bevy of continuing education courses for finance professionals in all areas of finance through their Open University.

Whether you are working as a finance professional, an entrepreneur with the next brilliant idea in finance, or an investor trying to figure out your next move in finance, instead of going back to college, why not enroll in an online finance course through one of these top providers?

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