If you want to get into banking now, it may not make sense to study economics, or even straight banking and finance. A new breed of qualification is emerging to provide talent to the latest generation of finance firms.
The University of Southampton in the UK, for example, has changed its bachelors in finance degree to a 'bachelors in finance and financial technology,' covering crypto, crowdfunding, peer to peer lending and technology. Larisa Yarovaya, who runs the new course at Southampton, says it's been several years in the making and would have happened more quickly without COVID. "The course is designed to provide students with more fundamental knowledge about issues like blockchain and the synergies between finance and technology," Yarovaya says. "Nowadays, just teaching traditional finance might limit our students' career prospects. We wanted to integrate these cutting edge technologies into a course that's as innovative as possible."
Although crypto has been going through...
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