The finance industry is currently experiencing that digital disruption is changing their business fundamentally. Both incumbent and FinTechs player are competing for newly energized digital-friendly customers - a segment that has grown dramatically due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We often hear that economic crises and fundamental shifts in society create challenges but also new opportunities for innovative companies and in particular entrepreneurs. While Covid-19 might have slowed other industries down it has sped up many FinTech trends. Who wants to pay with cash when you can use contactless payment? Who wants to go into a bank when you can do everything online? And who doesn’t want to do a bit of investing and trading on the phone while working from home?

What will you gain from the webinars?

• An understanding of FinTech and the future of finance
• Exclusive access to experts from companies and UC Berkeley
• Unique insights into the latest FinTech trends
• An overview of what to expect from the Tech Giants in the future

Spar Nord Fonden sponsors five scholarships each semester to study Financial Technology and Entrepreneurship at University of California, Berkeley. 5 talented, motivated and energetic scholars from Danish universities get a unique opportunity to develop a FinTech start-up idea as part of the program and study for a semester at UC Berkeley with internationally recognized professors. The program is facilitated by the Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley and the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR) at UC Berkeley.