People around Fintech — Zhu Kuang Lee

This post is part of a series entitled ‘People of Around Fintech’ and details stories from the CFTE community with emphasis on the diverse nature of our ecosystem. Our aim is to showcase the different members of the community with a view to inspire current practitioners within Finance, as well as future learners to join the movement of Finance 2.0. In this instalment we spoke with Zhu Kuang Lee, a Director and Product Innovation professional at Standard Chartered bank.

For Zhu Kuang, the “Around fintech in 8 hours” course was a great solution to develop technologies and processes in his area of work. With our course, he expected to gain the general knowledge about fintech, but as he claims, we exceeded his expectations…

Two sentences about Around Fintech in 8 hours:

It was a well-structured course with good readings and engaging videos from the industry experts. I am especially happy to see my Friend, Daniel Liebau, as one of the lecturers contributing to this course.

Would you recommend Around Fintech in 8 hours? Why? To Who?

I would definitely recommend this course to people who want to have a comprehensive understanding of what is going on in the fintech space and what are the emerging technologies to pay attention to.

What you expected from the course, and what you got out of it?

I expected the course to give a very general overview, but I think this course exceeded my expectations with all the valuable insights from the video interviews and the readings. The test at the end of each module also helped to strength what I have learnt.

What are you going to do now — with your new fintech foundation certificate?

Equipped with a better understanding of the fintech landscape, I would continue to do more research into areas such as blockchain, API, and artificial intelligence/machine learning which could potentially improve the technology and processes in my area of work. I am also looking forward to more networking sessions with fellow classmates of CFTE.

Around Fintech in 8 hours is an online FIntech foundation course designed by CFTE with 4 senior lecturers and 16 industry experts. The covers the key Fintech trends that are reshaping finance with a Certificate of Completion received on successfully completing the course.

Fore more information on Around Fintech in 8 Hours, please visit http://aroundfintech.cfte.education/

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