From personal banking and investment apps to wearable payment devices, quantitative techniques and the emergence of financial technologies or FinTech has transformed financial services.
With advancing technology, automation and emerging opportunities with big data, mathematics and statistical skills are in demand across the finance and banking sectors and companies are turning to graduates with data analysis skills to protect their online assets.
The rise of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has put blockchain technology in the spotlight with advances opening more uses across the financial sector. While the media hype around Bitcoin may have subsided, digital currency is here to stay.