One of the things that you're going to find is that you
will develop a very good understanding of how the financial system works,
particularly in regard to these new technologies that are coming along. You
will be able to recognise all the different tools and techniques that are
applied and you'll have a good understanding of what they can do, how
powerful they can be and what sort of things you can use them for. You'll also
be able to develop some really good analytical skills that will help you to
understand how to interrogate this collection of big data that is
constantly being added to and that will allow you to understand how to extract
value from that, how to understand and to use the right kinds of tools in order to get
to the bottom of what it's all about. You will also understand the way that these
technologies are structured from the from the the architecture point of view -
to understand what makes them tick and why they are good. That will lead to
you understanding how this improves on things as compared to traditional
methods which of course we'll also cover so that you understand why it's so
clunky and why it's been so expensive to run for all these many decades. This will
make you quite agile because, of course, the technology is very agile in the rate
at which it develops and it will mean that you'll be very very agile in terms
of your understanding of what's going on and what happens when new technology
comes along. We'll go through basically everything that there is
currently available to explain how good that will be in terms of what that can do,
but we will also be covering all sorts of other areas such as the legislative
and regulatory environment that these necessarily walk within so you'll develop
a really good understanding of all the issues that relate to that and you'll
also understand the challenges that are faced by companies who are trying to do
that. As you can imagine, big data means you're going to have big storage
requirements. You're going to have a problem with the sheer volume of data in
terms of, not just storing it, but being able to transfer it into a format where
you can actually derive some value from it. You will also learn how to use a
considerable range of modern tools that will allow you to try and access value
from this data, so it will give you a really good understanding of what it's
all about and where you can you can derive the value from that. You should
end up with a very good skill set at the end of the course and you'll be
quite well-practised in all these techniques and technologies and you'll
have a very good understanding of what's out there. You'll also get to
understand some of the other challenges that are faced, for example cyber
security. Cyber security is a very important issue because everybody who
has anything at all connected to the Internet is subject to the risk of
attack by people who want to get something of value from you - preferably
for nothing. And the problem you have there is that the people who are doing
this are very skilled at what they do and it's very easy for them to
trick people into giving up all sorts of information, but
worst of all of course, because we're in a business here that is focused entirely
on money. Money is the best thing that they can steal because, of course, they
don't have to convert what they've stolen into cash if it's cash already.
Naturally there will be a lot of people trying to do that and that's one
of the key skills that you'll learn about - the importance of working
things in a very safe and secure way to ensure that you are not subject to these
kinds of attacks and that should make you much more aware of all the things that
are important to defend against.