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Several innovations in recent years are transforming how firms and individuals access and allocate financial capital. These innovations are changing how existing financial intermediaries function, are spawning new ones, and are helping address global problems of the 21st century such as climate change. The most recent innovations rely on technology to collect, process, and use new data or large datasets in making financial decisions. FinTech is an acronym for this space. The goal of the course is to understand how these innovations are shaping how we access, allocate, invest, and transfer capital. Students will gain domain familiarity with the businesses and financial products in the FinTech space, learn about the disruptions, disruptors, as well as the incumbent businesses and products subject to disruption, the economic forces that create or destroy value in the space, the regulatory and governance challenges in the FinTech space, and gain some exposure to the data science tools necessary for understanding the financial innovations, particularly those driven by FinTech.