Financial Technology Middlesex University

Award	Attendance	Study	Duration	Start	Domestic fees	International fees
MSc	On-Campus	Full-time, Part-time	1 - 2 years	September	find out	find out

Course fee notes

Fees vary for UK, EU and International students. Please check your chosen course page on the Middlesex University website for up to date fees and available funding options.

Course overview

Our degree's core focus is to give you the ability and confidence to contribute to the technical development of financial services whether in a small start-up or an established company. You will work with experts in finance, computer science, and mathematics from across the university's departments.

Group work can include students from our Mauritius and Dubai campuses, giving you a global perspective on Financial Technology and helping you to build an international collaborative network. Our innovative module “Current Topics in Financial Technology” allows you to co-design your learning activities to your interests. The course is designed for applicants who wish to learn about the financial sector while enhancing their programming skills with applications to finance.

Why Study Financial Technology at Middlesex?

This programme provides a global perspective on finance and the technical skills to develop financial technology products. It will equip you for a variety of technical roles in the growing financial technology sector, from quantitative analyst to machine learning engineer.

You will gain an overview of the nature and operations of financial markets, and become adept at accessing, analysing and visualising a range of types of financial data.

You will also develop your programming skills to include a range of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning theories and techniques, database technologies, application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed computing methods and blockchain technologies. You will have hands-on experience in applying these techniques to produce viable financial technology products as part of an authentic, collaborative software development team.

As part of the programme you will co-design your learning activities to suit your particular interests, and can work with peers in London, Mauritius and Dubai, collaborating internationally to solve real-life problems with financial technology.

What Will You Learn?

Financial analysis: you will master and be able to critically evaluate the quantitative instruments used to analyse financial markets.

Financial theories: you will confidently reason with the mathematical theories underpinning financial technologies, including linear algebra, probability distributions, time series, financial models, and blockchains.

Programming: you will develop advanced programming skills including the use of APIs, complex databases, distributed computing and collaborative software development.