BLOCKCHAIN FOR CAPITAL MARKETS-P210920WUG

BLOCKCHAIN FOR CAPITAL MARKETS-P210920WUG

Funded

Course Duration

8.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Written Assessment

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for:
 

  • Finance Professionals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Aspiring PMEs
  • Anyone who is keen to explore more about blockchain technology and its opportunities for capital markets

Course Overview

Capital market ecosystems are undeniably complex, with transactions involving multiple parties coupled with complex processes. To improve efficiency, financial institutions have been exploring on ways for growth and innovation.

The potential efficiencies of blockchain technology to improve capital market processes are clear, with its distributed nature enabling an immutable and irreversible way of storing data coupled by processes such as smart contract technology.

What role can blockchain technology play to help improve current capital market ecosystems and what are the challenges and limitations? We explore further in this course.

Next available schedule

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the fundamentals of blockchain technology and its key utility and benefits
  • Learn about the real-world utility value of blockchain technology and its potential in growing and evolving the financial industry, specifically for capital markets
  • Explore blockchain technology opportunities and business scenarios for capital markets through interactive role-playing activities

Pre-requisites

No credit or certification prerequisites required to take this course.

Course Outline

What is Blockchain Technology

  • Clearing common misconceptions: Blockchain = Bitcoin = Cryptocurrency?
  • Introduction to blockchain technology and its use cases
  • Introduction to cryptocurrencies and its use cases

Current landscape for capital markets

  • Key components of capital markets
  • Limitations and inefficiency

Why blockchain technology

  • How the features of blockchain technology can improve the current system
  • Distributed ledger technology
  • Smart contract
  • Ways capital markets could benefit from utilising blockchain technology
  • Improving efficiency across pre, during, post trade processes
  • Streamlining processes: settlement time, transferring data
  • Risk reduction and management
  • Cost efficiency
  • Do you need blockchain? Reach and limitations of blockchain applications

Exploring blockchain technology use cases for capital markets

  • Case studies sharing: What are the banks and industry players doing?
  • Why the time is ripe for more institutions to jump in

Disrupt or be disrupted

  • The future for capital markets: where to start?
  • Trends and predictions
  • Hurdles to adoption
  • Next steps

*Class activity

  • To encourage active learning, the 1 day course will include class activities such as small group discussions and presentations

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

Awarded NTUC LearningHub Certificate of Completion

Additional Details

Medium of Instruction: English

Trainer to Trainee Ratio is 1:30

Fees & Subsidies:

For Classes registered on or after 1st Jan 2023 (GST 8%)

 

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

 

Before GST

With GST

Before GST

With GST

Full Course Fee (For International Students)

$650.00

$702.00

$650.00

$702.00

For Singapore Citizens and PRs

$325.00

$377.00

$325.00

$377.00

For Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above

$195.00

$247.00

$195.00

$247.00

*With effect from 3rd October 2022:

  • Funding for courses under the Critical Core skills and Future-Enabled skills categories will only be available to Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents employed in the financial sector (i.e., by financial institutions or SFA certified FinTech firms)
  • GST funding support will no longer be applicable for all courses

Funding Eligibility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
  • Trainee must achieve 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not fulfil the eligibility criteria
  • From 3rd October 2022, funding for courses under the Critical Core skills and Future-Enabled skills categories will only be available to Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents employed in the financial sector (i.e., by financial institutions or SFA certified FinTech firms).
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents physically based in Singapore
  • Trainee must achieve 100% attendance and pass all relevant assessments
  • Sponsoring company must be
    • Singapore-based financial Institutions regulated by MAS (licensed or exempt from licensing by MAS)
    • FinTech firms certified by Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not fulfil the eligibility criteria
  • Eligible company-sponsored trainees will be able to clock CPD hours upon successful course completion

Remarks

  • Self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding
  • Self-sponsored NTUC Members can enjoy up to 50% funding (capped at $250 per year) under Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)

Terms and conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.

Fees are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees

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