{"id":12728,"date":"2019-05-03T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2019-05-03T08:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:42:26","slug":"in-demand-fintech-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/in-demand-fintech-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"In-demand FinTech skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapid digital transformation has not only hastened the expansion of FinTech in recent years, it has also increased the demand for FinTech skills. Moreover, this demand calls for a convergence of multidisciplinary skills commonly-known as the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">full-stack quant<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (i.e. requisite technical skills with a working knowledge of financial concepts and statistics). However, the current talent pool in most FinTech companies lack such understanding, especially complex financial and statistical modules. As such, FinTech companies are on the lookout for candidates who can successfully navigate and integrate concepts from the technical world (e.g. artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain technologies) and the financial\/statistical world. Given the data-centric nature of FinTech firms, it is only a matter of time before such a combination of knowledge and skills becomes the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-12728 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='FinTech lenders\u2019 difficulties in the current pandemic'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-lenders-difficulties-in-the-current-pandemic\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/960x0-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14936\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14936'>\n\t\t\t\tFinTech lenders\u2019 difficulties in the current pandemic\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='What Global Financial Institutions Can Learn from African Fintechs (Video)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/what-global-financial-institutions-can-learn-from-african-fintechs-video\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/14e518a9-f836-887c-937f-eee156270a861-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17039\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17039'>\n\t\t\t\tWhat Global Financial Institutions Can Learn from African Fintechs (Video)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='CIS Conference: Sales and cost efficiency growth, 21\u201322 September, Kyiv'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/cis-conference-sales-and-cost-efficiency-growth-21-22-september-kyiv\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIS-Conference-Sales-and-cost-efficiency-growth-21-22-September-Kyiv-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIS-Conference-Sales-and-cost-efficiency-growth-21-22-September-Kyiv-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CIS-Conference-Sales-and-cost-efficiency-growth-21-22-September-Kyiv-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7063'>\n\t\t\t\tCIS Conference: Sales and cost efficiency growth, 21\u201322 September, Kyiv\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid digital transformation has not only hastened the expansion of FinTech in recent years, it has also increased the demand for FinTech skills. Moreover, this demand calls for a convergence of multidisciplinary skills commonly-known as the full-stack quant (i.e. requisite technical skills with a working knowledge of financial concepts and statistics). However, the current talent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,193],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-fintech","tag-digital-transformation","tag-hr","b_post_type-bfc-recommends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12729,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions\/12729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}