Teaching

Course Development:

• Fintech and Disruptions in Financial Services (Undergraduate and Postgraduate) - This course explores how fintechs disrupt a variety of financial transactions such as payments, lending, credit, investment, as well as the regulatory environment. This course further examines rivals, technologies, public policy challenges, and the possibilities for collaboration between incumbents and disruptors. 

• Introduction to Programming for Business Analytics (Undergraduate) - This course covers programming fundamentals to using data for decision making. The paper focuses on how to extract, import, transform, describe and visualise data. The course makes use of Python programming software and packages such as numpy, pandas, matplotlib and seaborn to perform these actions. 

Finance Courses Taught:                     

• Research Methods in Finance (Postgraduate) - This course provides the research foundations for academic writing. It covers various generic research methods in finance such as academic writing, critical literature reading, databases and empirical analyses.

• Corporate Finance (Undergraduate) - This course covers the theoretical corporate finance principles and valuation techniques such as capital structure, cost of capital, company valuation and working capital management.

• Investment and Portfolio Analysis (Undergraduate) - This course covers the theory and practice of investments such as understanding various investment selections, analyzing the relationship of risk to required rates of returns, portfolio construction and monitoring, and valuing investment securities. 

• Introduction to Finance (Undergraduate) - This introductory course covers the basic aspects of finance. Students will learn concepts such as time value of money, risk and return and financial management along with the technical skills for solving financial problems.