AIFMRM and the UCT Careers Service held an event on Thursday, 26 July 2018 for 4th-year UCT students interested in finding out about career possibilities in financial markets and AIFMRM’s Master’s degrees.
Programme:
- Careers and Degrees in Mathematical Finance, Risk Management and Financial Technology
- Panel Discussion and Q & A with graduates and current students
- Networking and refreshments
UCT’s African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM) and the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) launched a new UCT MOOC: Fintech in Emerging Markets. The Cape Town event commenced directly after the completion of the annual AIFMRM Careers in Financial Markets event for UCT students.
Programme:
- 18h00 to 19h30 AIFMRM student event: Careers in Financial Markets
- 19h30 to 19h35 Welcome: Associate Professor Kanshukan Rajaratnam (Acting Dean: Faculty of Commerce, UCT)
- 19h35 to 20h10 Panel discussion: How communities turn blockchain ideas into action
- 20h10 to 20h15 UCT MOOC Launch: Laura Czerniewicz (Director: CILT, UCT)
- Refreshments will be served after the event.
Panelists:
- Monica Singer (Creator of opportunities, Consensys)
- Carla van Jaarsveld (Operations Manager, Linum Labs)
- Marius Reitz (Country Manager SA, Luno)
- Dr Sumarie Roodt (Chairperson, Silicon Cape Initiative and Department of Information Systems, UCT)
Moderator:
- Associate Professor Co-Pierre Georg (AIFMRM, UCT)
AIFMRM held a policy forum for crypto enthusiasts and those interested in fintech, cryptocurrencies, and finance of the future.
Keynote speaker:
Professor Andrei Kirilenko – Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at Imperial College London, former chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a world-leading fintech expert.
Panel discussion and Q&A:
Keynote speaker
Arif Ismail – Divisional Head: Oversight National Payment System Department (NPSD), South African Reserve Bank
Angela Itzikowitz – Executive: Banking and Finance, ENSafrica and Professor in Banking and Financial Markets Law, University of the Witwatersrand,
Dr Co-Pierre Georg – Senior Lecturer, AIFMRM and Director, UCT Financial Innovation Lab
AIFMRM held a policy forum on the timely and important question of what the role of the state is in the economy.
Keynote speaker:
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – Social activist, rapper, and PhD student at Oxford University. He presented a chapter from his newly released book Democracy and Delusion)
Panel discussion and Q&A:
Keynote speaker
Michael Sachs (Deputy Director General – Budget Office, National Treasury)
Tinyiko Ngwenya (Economist – Old Mutual)
AIFMRM and the UCT Careers Service hosted an event for UCT students interested in career options in Quantitative Finance and Financial Risk Management. Industry practitioners attended the event to give students insights into careers paths in these areas.
Programme:
Careers in Financial Risk Management
Careers in Quantitative Finance
Master’s degree programmes – MPhil specialising in Mathematical Finance, MCom in Risk Management of Financial Markets and new MPhil in Data Science of Finance Technology
Panel discussion and Industry Q&A