Financial Technology MSc

We live in the digital age, facing an increasingly digital future. This forward-looking course shapes you into a creative digital professional by following a unique, problem-solving ‘two pillars’ approach that puts you at the leading edge of financial technology (fintech). First, it equips you to tackle the biggest challenges facing the financial sector, particularly around increased regulatory requirements and customer satisfaction. Second, the course gives you the tools to use fintech to build a more sustainable future. Using a hands-on approach, you develop innovative solutions to real-world problems using real-time, transformative digital technologies including AI, big data, machine learning, blockchain, cryptocurrencies and cybersecurity. In the Fintech Guest Lecture series, we collaborate with academics and experts at the forefront of financial technology across a wide range of industries, who share their knowledge and practical experiences with you. Gain a qualification that puts you ahead of the curve, focusing on the contemporary financial sector’s new approach to policy and decision-making: how to use fintech to build a sustainable future. With our commitment to hands-on learning, you gain the skills needed to solve genuine, real-world financial-sector challenges.Explore the ways in which financial technology can be utilised to achieve fintech solutions aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.Study the transformations that machine learning is introducing to the financial sector and put learning into practice by building machine-learning algorithms.

IELTS 6.0 overall, with minimum 5.5 in each element

International students: £17,900 per year

UK students: £10,000 per year

UK/Home: £10,000 per year

International: £17,900 per year

January, March, May, July, September, November

January entry (all courses); 21 October 2025 (Nursing); March entry: 06 February 2026 (PG block only); September entry: 25 July 2025 (UG and PG non-block); 18 July 2025 (Nursing and PG block); November entry: 03 October 2025 (PG block only)

• Luton campus, United Kingdom