Course descriptions

The historical background of Islamic Banking and insurance is discussed alongside their characteristics and structure. Mobilizing and utilizing of funds, asset liability management, and issue on risk management and Islamic insurance (Takaful) are the main topics of this course.

This course will focus on the study of the foreign exchange market and other international markets as a background to the analysis of international financial operations, including arbitrage, hedging, speculation, investment and financing. International parity conditions are examined critically as they relate to business decision making.

FinTech is the label for increasingly technological approaches to the main financial intermediation functions. In today's FinTech businesses, consumers bank via mobile apps integrated into social media and institutions trade electronically. Fundamentals of Financial Technology (FinTech) course introduces the theory and practice of FinTech, as well as, it has been designed to educate students in a systemic approach to understanding disruption in the context of digitalization and enables them to build better firms with an opportunity to launch new FinTech ventures and harness new technology. The course gives a broad understanding on the current and emerging technologies around money and payments, markets, and consumer experience, and explores key ideas, principles, and frameworks around FinTech.

This course is designed for students to analyze the promises and challenges of crowdfunding and look closely at impact investing. The course examines peer-to-peer lending and its effect on the consumer credit landscape and marketplace lending. The course helps the students to develop analytical skills to exploit opportunities to use financial technologies to improve financial health. The course demonstrates peer-to-peer lending platforms as an alternative method to finance debt to better analyze the methodology behind fintech companies that refinance loans for consumers.

FinTech refers to financial sector innovations involving technology-enabled business models that can facilitate disintermediation, revolutionize how existing firms create and deliver products and services, address privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement challenges, provide new gateways for entrepreneurship, and seed opportunities for inclusive growth. The course gives a broad understanding on the applications of fintech on insurance and real estate markets and provides students with exposure to new Fintech services within a critical context and framework analyzing traditional money, banking and financial markets combined with interdisciplinary content from Computer Science and Entrepreneurship. The course also analyzes the key components of traditional machine learning and deep machine learning. The course shows the effects of big data and artificial intelligence in different markets.

The course intends to critically explore the problems, challenges, prospect of Islamic banking and finance in Kuwait particularly and generally in the Gulf region. This course will include economics, banking, investment, and finance.

Topics in Finance

Advanced Topics in Finance

Implications of Current Financial Crisis