Breaking Through Boundaries, Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA Starts a Journey of Financial Innovation in London

Release time：2023-10-15    

As one of the most important financial centers in the world, London has a developed financial market and a sound financial system. It has gathered several international banks, financial institutions and innovative technological enterprises, forming the Financial Technology Industry Center in Europe. Studying here, the students can experience in person the pulse of international financial markets.

The Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA Overseas Module provides students with comprehensive financial technology knowledge, including the application of digital currency, blockchain technology and AI in the financial field. Furthermore, Professor Christopher Pissarides, Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, was invited to provide his interpretation of the post-epidemic global economy.

Here, the students will get an in-depth understanding of the operating mechanism of London’s financial market and the latest fintech development trend using classroom lectures, case analysis and on-site investigation.

Having a dialogue with leading scholars and exploring the future of the global economy

Academic classes

With the rapid development of information technology in recent years, fintech, big data and cloud computing have become the keywords in the financial industry. The combination of these technologies has not only largely raised the efficiency and quality of financial services, but also brought great opportunities for financial innovation.

In order to explore the future of financial innovation, Professor Yike Guo, Tenured Professor at Imperial College London, Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Director of Data Science Institute of Imperial College London and Chief Scientist at London E-Science Research Center, gave Full-time Financial MBA students the themed course of fintech big data and cloud computing, guiding students to probe into how data excavation, cloud computing and robot learning would lead financial innovation.

The global labor market is facing a variety of challenges, like technological advances, globalization and population aging-among others. The wide application of new technologies has posed unemployment risks for some traditional industries while at the same time creating several new employment opportunities as well.

Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA invited Professor Christopher Pissarides, Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics and Euro Adviser for UK Treasury and Swedish Euro Commission, to interpret the post-epidemic global economy.

Professor Pissarides started with a positive sharing of the “de-anxiety” in the face of AI’s impact on the labor market and carried on expressing his insights from three dimensions of the current status of the global labor market, the revival of the European economy in the post-epidemic era and the increase and impact on employment of new technologies.

Broadening the industrial vision and feeling the financial pulse in London Financial Center

Industrial visits

Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA students visited the Data Science Institute of Imperial College London, enjoying an inspiring journey.

By visiting the large immersive data visualization facilities in the center, they directly observed the wide application of big data and cloud computing in the fintech field. Let alone the subway pedestrian flow prediction, bitcoin trading chart and changes in public opinions on UK’s Brexit, the students were more impressed by the fact that big data could even read people’s thoughts by analyzing their dreams. All these real-life examples demonstrated the significance of big data to decisions and judgments.

London Stock Exchange, as a key part of the global financial market, is devoted to expanding the application of fintech and big data to promote financial reform and innovation. The visit to the London Stock Exchange, one of the four stock exchanges in the world, was a surprising journey.

Full-time Financial MBA students got to know from another perspective how the London Stock Exchange as a key player in the global financial industry promoted financial reform and sustainable development through technological innovation and ESG practice; and provided better financial services for investors and enterprises by combining fintech with big data; and encouraged enterprises to pay more attention to environmental protection, social responsibilities and great corporate governance by pushing forward ESG practice.

A collision between free souls and the elegant UK style

Cross-culture course

Ever since the introduction of Chinese tea by the British East India Company in the 17th century, tea drinking has become popular in the UK, forming a characteristic tea culture. Nowadays, the British people regard the tea culture as a special social activity.

During the overseas module study, the Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA Program arranged for the students to take a featured UK tea culture course to learn about local tea-drinking methods and important notes.

Museums are witnesses of history. Through exhibits and collections, we can go deep into the cultural background and historical events in various regions around the world. Visiting museums in the UK, the students had the chance to see with their own eyes the charm of precious relics and antiques from all over the world, everything from the Egyptian pyramids to Greek sculptures and Indian sculpture art.

The high-profile cultural landmarks, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum and Tate Modern, made up an indelible part of the overseas module journey for the Full-time Financial MBA students.

Under the guidance of professional teachers and based on what they had learned during “artwork investment,” the students appreciated different types of art forms, explored the unique glamour of various cultures and experienced the aesthetic value of different cultural backgrounds.

You and I staying together, poetic flavor may not be afar.

Group activities

When it comes to the most joyful trip in the week-long overseas module, it must be the amazing night tour on the River Thames planned by the class committee.

In the warm afterglow, the students accompanied each other and boarded the sightseeing cruise. Starting from London Bridge, they admired the exquisite scenery on both banks of the River Thames all along the way, passing by Big Ben, London Eye and Canary Wharf while being bathed in the last light of the setting sun, the romance of the milky way, and the breeze of the unfettered sea wind. In the end, the students proposed a toast over the elegant UK rock and roll and uninhibited guitar music.

Basking in the languid sunlight in the afternoon, the students went sightseeing in the double-deck red bus shuttling through downtown London, which was converted into a mobile tearoom where they could enjoy the delicate deserts and fragrant tea drinks. Everyone enjoyed a leisurely time.

Achieving a sense of pride and warmth as a member of Fudan University

Face-to-face with the alumni

In a special Victorian-style townhouse banquet hall in Imperial College London, Fudan University Full-time Financial MBA students enjoyed an evening banquet on the last night of the overseas module. Mingyuan Ji, Director of Fudan University UK Alumni Association, Tong Zhao, Secretary-general of UK Alumni Association, and Yunxuan Lu, a member of UK Alumni Association, were invited. They shared with the students the situation of the electronic technology manufacturing industry, enterprise information transformation system architecture and the development of the financial industry in the UK, providing richer perspectives for the students’ future development.