MGT444H5 • FinTech, Blockchain, & Decentralized Finance

This course provides students with a solid understanding of the technologies, tools, and applications that will transform and define the financial industry over the next decade. Students will study the technological and economic mechanisms that make blockchain work, the services it hosts, how it disrupts the financial industry, the risks, how a decentralized protocol can be governed and regulated, and what problems Decentralized Finance (DeFi) solves. Students will also learn about smart contracts, types of tokens and their uses, digital money, oracles, stablecoins, DeFi-lending and DeFi-trading, crypto-regulation, and central-bank-issued digital currencies. This course is geared to Commerce and Management students and does not require engineering or computer science knowledge.
MGT120H5 and ECO204Y5 and MGT330H5 (or equivalent)
MGT411H5 (Fall 2020 or Fall 2021 or Fall 2022) or MGT415H5 (Fall 2017 or Fall 2018 or Fall 2020)
Social Science
24L
In Class
Management