LLM FinTech Law draft

Program Overview

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.

Program Outline

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.

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 decentralised 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.

You'll develop the skills to critically engage with the major theoretical legal debates surrounding international financing, financial markets and financial technology You'll be able to deal with policy arguments on international financing, financial markets and financial technology law  and 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.

You will 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. You will 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.

You'll develop the ability to engage with principal debates in the field of international financing, financial markets and technology.  You'll build awareness of the contribution of non-legal discipline to debates surrounding international financing, financial markets and technology.

All our LLM courses are taught through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops with six contact hours a week taking place during weekday evenings from 6 - 9pm. We extensively use problem-based learning, class discussion and case studies to ensure our teaching is brought to life, while all our lectures are issued as podcasts to give you greater access to learning resources and allow you to revisit specific classes.

A variety of teaching methods will be used, and you will be expected to lead discussions based on your own research activities and reflective practice. You will also be expected to work in groups and present findings and solutions to problems. At all times you will be encouraged to reflect on and take responsibility for your own learning. Seminar and workshop groups are a key component of the course and aim to assist you with analysing underlying principles and practices of accounting and assess your application to specific issues.

The main approaches to teaching and learning can be summarised as an emphasis on the role of learners in acquiring knowledge and understanding, the development of skills for self-managed learning and self-assessment and a critical approach to study.

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Breakdown assessment, 100% coursework

We aim to provide feedback on assessments in within two weeks from the announcement of the result of the assessment.

Students with disabilities and/or particular learning needs should discuss assessments with the Course Leader to ensure they are able to fully engage with all assessment within the course.