Description

The Finance module provides a significant underpinning to the Chartered Fintech Professional (CFtP) qualification. While the topics are familiar to professionals who are traditionally trained in Finance, these topics are required to appreciate the financial problems that technology can help solve. Without a clear appreciation of finance concepts and practice, any professional will have difficulties solving such problems the traditional way, let alone incorporating recent technological breakthroughs. In this module, we provide the basic concepts and knowledge that a fintech professional needs.This book covers the main concepts and theories in finance which include economics, financial statement analysis, financial management, and investment management. Finance for Fintech Professionals is a companion volume to the book on technology that covers fundamental concepts on data, artificial intelligence, and network. Together, these two books form the foundation for a good understanding of finance and fintech applications which will be covered in subsequent volumes.Contents:

Economics:
- Microeconomics:
  - Demand and Supply Analysis
  - Firm Decision-Making
  - Market Structure
  - Game Theory (Strategic Games and Oligopoly Models)
- Macroeconomics:
  - Aggregate Output, Prices, and Economic Growth
- Macro-Finance:
  - Financial Development and Financial Markets
  - Central Bank and Monetary Policy
  - Financial Regulation and Supervision
Financial Statement Analysis:
- Financial Statement Analysis Foundations:
  - Understanding Income Statements
  - Understanding Balance Sheets
  - Understanding Cash Flow Statements
- Financial Analysis and Evaluation:
  - Financial Analysis Techniques
  - Financial Reporting Quality and Evaluation
  - Applications of Financial Statement Analysis
Financial Management:
- Finance Foundation:
  - Time Value of Money
  - Return and Risk Measures of Assets
- Investing Decisions:
  - Cost of Capital
  - Capital Budgeting
- Working Capital Management:
  - Sources of Short-Term Liquidity
- Corporate Risk Management:
  - Framework and Types of Corporate Risks
Investment Management:
- Equity Markets:
  - Introduction to Equity
  - Characteristics of Stocks
  - Fundamentals Analysis of Equity
  - Company Analysis
  - Equity Valuation Models
- Fixed Income:
  - Characteristics of Bonds
  - Valuation of Bonds
  - Bond Risk
  - Credit Analysis
  - Asset-Backed Securities
- Derivatives:
  - Forward Contracts
  - Futures Contracts
  - Options
  - Swaps
  - Hedging Using Derivatives
- Portfolio Management:
  - Portfolio Analysis
  - Alternative Investments
  - Portfolio Management

Readership: Professionals, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the field of financial technology, finance, financial innovation, economics, portfolio management, financial management, investment management, and financial planning.Fintech;Finance;Economics;Financial Statement;Financial Statement Analysis;Portfolio Management;Financial Planning;Financial Management;Investment Management0Key Features:

Beginners’ guide to finance for fintech professionals
Inclusion of fundamentals in economic and finance
Easy to understand
Useful handbook with learning outcomes, main terms, lessons learnt and sample questions provided