Master of Fintech and Investment Management

Summary

Expand your skills and nurture an exciting future with advanced understanding of the new technologies, financial strategies and business models changing the face of business, including agribusiness.

About this programme

New finance-based technologies and innovation strategies are revolutionising the global economy.

Banking, investment and commerce are increasingly driven by the application of data, backed by transaction information held on new blockchain platforms.

Lincoln University’s Master of Fintech and Investment Management grows the advanced skills you’ll need to evaluate and apply fintech priorities to finance, investment, information technology as well as agriculture.

It will cultivate your ability to help businesses (including agribusinesses) flourish through applying new disruptive technologies and leaner, data-driven business models.

This programme is ideal if you already have a conventional finance background and want to upskill, or if you have a bachelor’s degree in an unrelated subject.

If you begin study in the February or July intake, the programme will take 18 months to complete (allowing for a summer break). To progress to the compulsory specialist courses, you’re required to complete 60 credits of underpinning courses.

You can complete the programme in 12 months if you start in November.

How you’ll grow

• Learn how blockchain technologies are redefining workflows, global payments and prosperity creation
• Participate in specialist courses covering investment management, software development, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence plus an in-depth grounding in fintech business analysis
• Acquire knowledge of the changing regulatory and legal financial landscape, cyber security and policy issues
• Gain hands-on experience through fintech contemporary research and industry placement

Career opportunities

The rapid adoption of fintech worldwide has created escalating demand for trained professionals with both fintech and financial analysis skills.

Your strong foundation in investment management plus fintech-related skills will give you a clear advantage in career roles in New Zealand and overseas.

These include:

• Fintech product management
• Customer experience management
• Fintech compliance and risk control management
• Fintech start-ups analysis
• Wealth management
• Investment analysis
• Specialist agribusiness finance and consulting
• Information technology
• Agricultural and horticultural finance and investment consulting