Certificate Program in Digital Finance

from IIM Kashipur

Be future ready as India goes a momentous shift

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
Emerging digital technologies are redefining finance by expanding customers
access and the reach of providers, lowering the cost of providing financial services
and enabling new business models based on expanded services to customers and
potential new revenue streams to providers. Digital finance is fundamentally about
saving, depositing and transferring money, accessing credit and insurance, and
performing transactions via digital channelsonline banking, mobile phones, cards,
computers, tablets, and so on. (US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Against this backdrop, this program covers the entire spectrum of digital finance
i.e. business model, product design, strategic risk planning, regulations, policy,
technology and fraud management.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Opportunity to earn a Certificate of Completion
from IIM Kashipur

Lectures imparted by eminent faculty from IIM

Kashipur and industry professionals as applicable.

Gain understanding of changing landscape and core

elements of financial services in digital economy.

Helps identify opportunity of business expansion

through digital financial services.

Program completely oriented towards imparting

contemporary, practical and application oriented
knowledge.

Knowledge imparted through class exercises to

develop hands on skills that can be applied to
practical scenarios.

Fully Online Course with LIVE online interactive

lectures that provides a real classroom experience
in a virtual environment. No isolated learning
experience.

Seamless technology that can transmit lecture

videos effectively at home broadband connection
of 512 kbps.

User friendly and easy to use technology interface.

No expensive and time consuming of
software/hardware installations required at your end.

Virtual classrooms that allow for active interactions

with other fellow students and faculty.

Convenient weekend schedules

In the event that students miss attending the LIVE

lecture on the Virtual Classroom for some reason,
students will be granted access to the recorded
sessions for a specified number of days/times.

TALENTEDGEs SLIQ Cloud Campus Students on

our virtual social learning platform are provided
access to course presentations, projects, case studies,
assignments and other reference materials as
applicable for specified courses. Students can raise
questions and doubts either real time during the live
class or offline through our SLIQ Cloud Campus.

Learn from Anywhere No need to travel to an

institute or training center. Learning continues even
if you are traveling or not available at any specific
location. You may also learn from the comfort of
your home.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
The Executive Certificate Program in Digital Finance will include lectures and
learning material on the following topics.

Digital Money, Digital Currency and Consumer Behaviors in Digital

Digital Financial Services
Digital Money and Digital Financial
Services (DFS)
Digital Currency
Introduction to digital currencies
(BitCoin, LiteCoin, PPCoin,
NameCOin etc.)
Evolution of digital currencies
Digital currencies and impact on
business
Technology for digital currencies
Regulating digital currencies
Digital Finance Ecosystem
Economy: Behavioural Finance
Approach
Analysis of behavior of financial
service user and financial service
provider in digital economy
Fundamentals of behavioral finance:
Biases
Implications of principles of
behavioral finance in digital economy
Impact of biases in digital financial
services
Customer Value Proposition
Business Models for Digital
Financial Services

Digital Environment Revenue stream

Nature Distribution strategy
Demand of Financial services: BFSI Partnership strategy
sector, NBFC and other sectors
Technology Implementation
Competition, Collaboration and Pilot testing and Rollout
Disruption in Digital Economy
Payment system
Competitive analysis of financial
Digital Financial Supply Chain
services industry
Disruption in BFSI and NBFC industry
in digital economy
Landscape for collaboration in digital
economy
DFS Agent Network Risk Management in Digital
Financial Services
Principles of Mass Distribution
Agent On-boarding Fraud Management in Digital
Financial Services
Agent Compensation
Liquidity Management Digital Finance: Regulations and
Policies
Monitoring and support

Digital Finance Services

For commercial Banking : Mobile

Banking and other implications
For other Financial Institutions (NBFC,
Investment banking, Asset
management companies etc.)

PROGRAM FACULTY
DR. KUNAL
Assistant Professor, Finance

Dr. Kunal is working as Assistant Professor (Finance) at IIM

Kashipur. Currently, he is working in emerging field of finance,
Digital Finance. His course titled Make In India offered at IIM
Kashipur has been appreciated by Prime Minister of India. This
course Digital Finance is a step further towards Digital India, a
Government of India initiative.
He is an expert in Firm Financing and has defended his Ph.D. thesis in the area of
finance at Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His Ph.D.
thesis deals with empirical investigation of effect of selective intervention policy
towards Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian economy at micro, meso and macro
level. For his doctoral research work, he has been awarded "Best Research Paper
Award" at IIMA Doctoral Colloquium 2013 organized by Indian Institute of Management
Ahmadabad, India. Besides his dissertation, he has done extensive work on private
equity investment in India and financing problems with MSME, during his stay at IIT
Kanpur. He has successfully completed Master Teacher Programme at the prestigious
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
He has been awarded a gold medal for securing first rank in PGDM course at
International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, India. He is M. Tech. (Aerospace
Engineering) from IIT Kharagpur and B E (Mechanical Engineering) from Bhagalpur
College of Engineering (Autonomous college of Department of Science and
Technology, Govt. of Bihar). He taught "International Finance" at DualeHochschule,
Baden- Wurttemberg (DHBW), Ravensburg, Germany (April- May 2013), as part of the
Faculty Exchange program between DHBW, Germany and Symbiosis International
University, Pune, India. With 10+ years of teaching and research experience, he has more
than ten research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to
his name. Recently, he received Best Research Publication in Journal Award at IABE
2014 Las Vegas for the research paper titled 'Foreign Exchange Market, Money Market
and RBI Intervention', published in European Journal of Business Research (EJBR). He is
the co-coordinator of MoU between National Stock Exchange (NSE) and IIM Kashipur.
He is Associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE), USA.
ASSESSMENT & CERTIFICATION
A minimum of 70% attendance to the LIVE lectures is a prerequisite for the successful
completion of this program. There are periodic evaluations built in throughout the
duration of the course. These maybe in the form of a quiz, assignment, project, case
studies or other objective/subjective assessments. The evaluations are designed to
ensure continuous student engagement with the course and encourage learning.
Students who successfully clear the same along with the requisite attendance criteria
will be awarded a Certificate of Completion from IIM Kashipur.

PEDAGOGY
The primary method of instruction will be through LIVE lectures that will be delivered
online via internet to participant desktops/laptops or classrooms. The lectures will be
delivered by eminent faculty from IIM Kashipur and expert(s) from industry. The
program will be primarily taught though a combination of class exercises, presentations,
take-home exercises, case studies and project. All enrolled students will also be
provided access to our SLIQ Cloud Campus through which students may access other
learning aids, reference materials and assessments, case studies, projects and
assignments as appropriate. Throughout the duration of the course, students will have
the flexibility to reach out to the Professors, real time during the class or offline via our
SLIQ Cloud Campus to raise questions and clear their doubts. Participants successfully
completing and submitting the assigned project work will be awarded a Certificate of
Completion.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Working executives involved with implementation, operations and control of digital
finance processes and platforms.
CIOs and Business Heads responsible for collecting and protecting customers and
revenue generated through digital means.
Finance professionals aspiring to grow into senior roles within financial operations,
audit, risk and compliance etc.
Professionals engaged in roles within e-commerce, financial institutions, international
trade etc. who are keen to learn more about current trends in digital finance.
Banking Professionals, Non-Banking Financial Corporations (NBFC) professionals,
Regulator/policy maker, Entrepreneurs, Mobile network operators, Third party
providers, and Investors.
ELIGIBILITY
For Indian Participants - Graduates or Diploma Holders (10+2+3) from a recognized
university (UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU/State Government) in any discipline.
For International Participants - Graduation or equivalent degree from any recognized
University or Institution in their respective country.

SCHEDULE AND FEES

Course Start Date: 7th October 2017
Class timings: Saturday 06.00 p.m - 09:00 p.m. IST
Course Duration: 5 months
Indian Participants: INR 50,000 + Tax
International Participants: USD 1200

HOW TO APPLY
For admissions, students can register at : www.talentedge.in

FOR MORE DETAILS

Students can write in to - enquiry.dtd@talentedge.in or call at +91-83760 00600
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