Consumer Finance: Markets, Product Design, and FinTech

Calendar

Ses #	Topics	Key Dates
1	Introduction and overview of consumer financial markets
2	How people should behave: economic models of household financial behavior
3	How people do behave: behavioral biases, financial decisions, and markets	Retirement saving and consumption smoothing assignment due
4	Financial coaching and behavioral economics	Financial Health Check case assignment due Guest lecture: Katy Davis (Managing Director, ideas42)
5	Selling personal financial advice	Hello Wallet case due
6	Risk-based pricing in consumer credit: credit cards and regulation	Consumer credit assignment due
7	Consumer insurance markets	BASIX case due
8	Peer to peer lending	Lending Club case due
9	Securities backed by consumer debts	CLO modelling exercise due Guest lecture: Joseph Naggar (Partner, GoldenTree Asset Management)
10	Fintech lending in China	Guest lecture: Chen Long (Chief Strategy Officer, Ant Financial (formerly Alipay))
11	Fintech: Bitcoin and payment technologies overview and discussion	Bitcoin case due