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Blockchain for Banking & Finance Professionals
This course is designed to provide finance professionals, bankers, and enthusiasts with a deep understanding of how blockchain is reshaping traditional financial systems
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Course Overview
Designed for finance professionals, bankers, and fintech enthusiasts to strategically integrate blockchain technology into banking and financial workflows, enhancing transaction speed, operational security, and regulatory compliance.
IBF Aligned Framework: Standardized under official IBF Skills Framework guidelines for technology application in financial services.
Multi-Sector Application: Tailored for Retail Banking, Investment Management, Trade Finance, Risk & Compliance, and FinTech.
Practical Blockchain Workflows: Build smart contract simulations, evaluate DeFi frameworks, and design decentralized applications using hands-on financial scenarios.
Efficiency & Risk Reduction: Eliminate costly intermediaries, streamline cross-border payments, minimize banking fraud, and automate regulatory compliance.
Skills You'll Gain
Entry Requirements
- Workplace Literacy (Advanced Level) Level 4-5
Prerequisites & Knowledge
- Basic English literacy
- Intermediate knowledge of Excel would be beneficial for this workshop
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Banking & Finance Professionals
Retail bankers, investment specialists, and corporate finance managers looking to understand how blockchain is transforming traditional banking systems, automating financial workflows, and streamlining cross-border transactions.
FinTech & Innovation Strategists
Business development leads, FinTech product managers, and digital transformation specialists seeking to integrate decentralized technologies, evaluate stablecoins, and build next-generation financial services.
Risk, Compliance & Legal Officers
Compliance managers, risk analysts, and regulatory leads focused on navigating emerging digital asset policies, mitigating fraud, and ensuring regulatory compliance across decentralized finance frameworks.
Financial Technology Enthusiasts
Working professionals, consultants, and analysts wanting to gain practical insights into smart contracts, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and real-world Web3 financial applications without writing complex code.
What You Will Learn
A comprehensive curriculum designed to take you from foundational blockchain literacy to deploying scalable, high-impact digital asset transformations.
- Overview of Blockchain
- History and Evolution of Blockchain
- Key Concepts and Terminologies (Consensus, Cryptography, Smart Contracts)
- Types of Blockchain: Public, Private and Permissioned
- Demo of Blockchain
- Centralisation
- Over and under regulations
- Banking frauds
- NPAs
- KYC no compliance and shell companies
- Credit card frauds
- Data traceability issues
- Disruption in Banking & Finance
- Use Cases in Banking: Payments, Clearing and Settlement, Trade Finance, KYC, and AML
- Use Cases in Finance: Asset Management, Insurance, Smart Contracts
- Challenges and Limitations
- Global Regulatory Landscape
- Compliance and Legal Considerations in Banking & Finance
- Security and Privacy Concerns
- Use Case Discussion (e.g., P2P Lending, Supply Chain Finance)
- Designing the Architecture
- Implementing Smart Contracts for the Use Case
- Testing and Debugging
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- Tokenization of Assets
- NFTs in Finance
- Overview of Integration Challenges
- APIs and Middleware for Blockchain Integration
- Practical Exercise: Connecting a Blockchain Network to a Simulated Banking System
- Security Best Practices
- Working of Hyperledger blockchain
- How can blockchain help to increase data reliability in SAP systems