ISEDJ

Information Systems Education Journal

Volume 22

V22 N1 Pages 30-40

Mar 2024


Investigating FinTech Education and Training in Australian Universities


Pak-Lok Poon
Central Queensland University
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Santoso Wibowo
Central Queensland University
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Srimannarayana Grandhi
Central Queensland University
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Sau-Fun Tang
Central Queensland University
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Abstract: For more than a decade, the Financial Technology (FinTech) industry has been growing, and it has reshaped how payments were made and brought new financial service products to the market. FinTech has created innovative disruptions to traditional, long-established financial institutions (e.g., banks and investment firms) in financial services markets. The worldwide blooming of FinTech has caused universities around the globe to teach their students (particularly those in the IT and finance disciplines) about practical and contemporary knowledge on FinTech. This paper discusses our recent survey study to investigate the status quo of offering FinTech education and training by Australian universities. Our study involved two rounds of online data collection (one in November 2021 and the other one in June 2022) from 41 sample universities in Australia. Among our various findings, we observed that, although Australian universities are increasingly aware of the importance of and the demand for FinTech studies, FinTech has still not yet become a mainstream study discipline. This observation indicates that, in Australia, FinTech studies have generally gone through the inception stage and entered the growth stage.

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Recommended Citation: Poon, P., Wibowo, S., Grandhi, S., Tang, S., (2024). Investigating FinTech Education and Training in Australian Universities. Information Systems Education Journal 22(1) pp 30-40. https://doi.org/10.62273/SCRE3126