25865 Digital and Decentralised Markets
6cpRequisite(s): 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C04048 Master of Finance OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C04258 Master of Finance (Extension) OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C07021 Graduate Diploma Finance OR 24 credit points of completed study in 24Credit Points spk(s): MAJ08984 c 36cp Finance Major MBA
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Postgraduate
Description
In this subject, students learn about financial markets and how they are being transformed by recent technologies, including automation, blockchains, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts. It starts with the fundamentals: how markets are designed, their roles, how they operate, and how financial markets affect companies and investment portfolios. It provides tools to evaluate market quality. The subject then covers recent innovations and contemporary issues in traditional financial markets, including fragmentation of trading across competing venues, algorithmic and high-frequency trading, dark pools, recent regulations, and market design innovations. The subject explores the rapidly evolving Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Financial Technology (FinTech) ecosystems that are reshaping financial markets and the financial services industry. It covers the underlying technologies (blockchain, smart contracts, tokenisation), the applications (Decentralised Exchanges (DEX), Automated Market Makers (AMM), tokenised securities, non-fungible tokens (NFT), peer-to-peer lending/borrowing, insurance, and derivatives), and finally the challenges, risks, and areas for future R&D.
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