LLM FINTECH LAW

University of East London

Postgraduate

In London

£ 10,800 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

This specialised LLM will equip you with expert knowledge in Financial Technology (FinTech) law and regulation. Recent developments in FinTech are having an increasing effect on the way individuals, businesses and governments save, borrow, spend and invest. This Masters will introduce key alternative finance products and services such as mobile payments, crowdfunding, cryptoassets, private digital currencies, stablecoins, decentralized finance and the approaches to central bank digital currencies. These services have been facilitated by technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT) blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

You will also enhance your professional skills, awareness, and ability to locate, interpret, analyse and criticise laws, rules, policies and practices on international financing, financial markets and the impact of technology in the financial services industry. This programme will also provide specialist knowledge of the key role that the law and technology play in facilitating international financial transactions such as syndicated lending and international bond issues.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD

Start date

On request

About this course

You’ll learn about the role that financial regulation plays in key FinTech developments such as mobile payments, crowdfunding, cryptoassets, private digital currencies, stablecoins and decentralized finance. You’ll develop an understand of the role that law and technology play in facilitating international transactions such as syndicated lending and international bond issues.

Develop the skills to critically engage with the major theoretical legal debates surrounding international financing, financial markets and financial technology. Be able to deal with policy arguments on international financing, financial markets and financial technology law. Have the ability to apply critical and contextual approaches to the developing legal issues emanating from international financing, regulation of financial markets and financial technology.

Develop the ability to analyse, articulate and write on the subject, by linking previous or current experience with an academic inquiry, particularly via dissertation or work-based project. You’ll also develop an advanced knowledge of the legal discourse and doctrines relating to international financing, financial markets and financial technology.

You’ll gain detailed knowledge and critical understanding of key concepts, terminologies, practices and structures dealing with international financing, financial markets and technology. Have detailed knowledge and critical understanding of the topics studied by linking previous or current experience with current scholarly and legal debates on international financing, financial markets and technology, particularly via dissertation or work-based project.

After completing this programme, you would be able to work in roles including: financial/FinTech compliance specialists; lawyers within financial/FinTech institutions and law firms that have finance practice areas (they would need to have qualified in their chosen jurisdiction of practice); financial regulators and policy makers within government departments such as the ministry of finance/ treasury.

Minimum 2:2 Honours degree in any subject.
We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Technology
  • LLM
  • International
  • Industry
  • Financial Training
  • Finance
  • Financial
  • Law
  • Financial Technology

Course programme

WHAT YOU'LL STUDY

We consistently review and develop our courses and modules to ensure they are up-to-date with sector and industry graduate skills demands. Course structure, modules and options are subject to change.

MODULES
  • Financial Technology (FinTech) Regulation (Core)
  • Regulation of Financial Markets (Core)
  • Law of International Finance (Core)
  • International Law and Business (Optional)
  • International Corporate Governance (Optional)
  • Economic Integration in Developing Countries (Optional)
  • The Law of the World Trade Organisation and Globalisation (Optional)
  • Dissertation

Please note: You would be required to take three core modules and 1 optional module. Optional modules might not run every year, the course team will decide on an annual basis which options will be running, based on student demand and academic factors, in order to create the best learning experience.

You are encouraged to embark on placements during the first month of their summer holidays. The placement is however, optional and you would be responsible for finding and financing such placements.

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