Financial Services Analytics

Financial Analytics is the science and technology of creating data-driven insights and analytics decision- making for the financial services industry. These insights increase the effectiveness of business operations, enhance customer relationships, improve product offerings, and improve risk analysis and risk management. This certificate will prepare students with an array of statistical learning methods and database skills in order to create end-to-end business decision making data analytic tools from an enterprise level systems approach. The Financial Analytics certificate is 15 credits.

Financial Services Analytics Requirements

The required courses are:

FE 582Foundations of Financial Data Science

2

FE 513Financial Lab: Practical Aspects of Database Design

1

FE 541Applied Statistics with Applications in Finance

3

FE 590Statistical Learning

3

FE 595Financial Technology

3

FE 550Data Visualization Application

3

FE 595: Analytical Financial Systems Design