Description
This Track is for either financial or crypto professionals. If you’re in the financial services industry but not client-facing, this course is for you. It will help you develop new competencies to gain a competitive advantage in your industry, giving you the knowledge and skills you need to build your career. Attaining these capabilities will enable you to contribute to your firm’s efforts in creating and implementing its crypto strategy. Also includes are advanced learning modules on Taxation, Explaining Crypto to Clients and How to Incorporate Crypto into Your Practice. If you’ve recently joined a crypto company, this track will get you trained quickly so you can become productive faster! And if you want to be employed in the crypto field, this program will give you the knowledge you need to pass even the toughest HR interviews!
Learning Objectives
Throughout this course financial professionals will learn:
• The technical foundations of blockchain technology and review key concepts such as bitcoin mining, Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake, decentralization and consensus
• How Decentralized Finance (DeFI) differs from Traditional Finance and understand how Smart Contracts can be applied to business and society
• All about the crypto investment thesis and why it makes sense for clients to consider adding crypto to a diversified portfolio and how to manage client investment management strategies
• To gain exposure to a wide variety of crypto investment vehicles including Futures, SMAs, TAMPs, and private placements that can provide exposure to digital assets
• About the many real-world use cases and see how blockchain technology is being deployed across a variety of industries inducing real estate, supply chain, hospitality, health care, security, and financial services.
• How crypto assets are taxed, along with the tax impact of many ways to earn crypto such as playing games or acquiring crypto assets through mining, staking and minting.