Handbook

This course covers financial risk management from a FinTech perspective culminating into a specific area of insurance, InsurTech. Financial risk management is prone to tech disruption. This course begins with financial theories related to pricing, hedging and risk management followed by a deep-dive into practical mechanics of applied risk management case-studies and relevant academic research. The second part of the course is aimed at exploring a specific field, insurance. Guest speakers will be asked to highlight specific areas prone to disruption across insurance specializations. Knowledge of technologies used in InsurTech is becoming of ever-increasing importance for market practitioners and ultimately customers to comprehend. The course elevates the notion that it is the core financial risk management theories that drive technological change in addition to pure technological advacement. The course concludes with a critical assessment and analysis of one InsurTech company from a financial risk management standpoint.