Fintech Product Management Bootcamp 2025 (25+ hrs)

Become a Fintech Product Manager: Your Comprehensive Guide

Whether you're an aspiring product manager, a current product manager in fintech, or simply curious about managing fintech products, this course equips you with the essential knowledge and skills to thrive in this dynamic industry. Dive deep into the intersection of finance and technology and learn how to build and launch successful fintech applications.

What You'll Learn:

• Foundations of Product Management: Explore core product management principles, including roles, responsibilities, and daily tasks within companies like GRAB and Stripe. Understand the product development process and effective product team dynamics.
• Introduction to Fintech: Gain a strong understanding of the financial technology sector, covering banking operations, payment systems, and various money instruments.
• Global Payment Infrastructure: Navigate the complexities of global payment infrastructure, examining key systems in countries like the UK (Open Banking), India (UPI), and the USA (card networks).
• Fintech Security & Compliance: Master security and compliance in fintech, including payment processors, payment gateways, banking licenses, customer security, fraud prevention, and cross-border payments using systems like SWIFT and Direct Debit.
• Fintech Application Spectrum: Discover the diverse landscape of fintech apps, from lending and borrowing platforms and neobanks to investment platforms and insuretech. Understand their various business models.
• Advanced Payment Technologies: Explore cutting-edge payment technologies like NFC, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), e-money, e-wallets, and Banking as a Service (BaaS), tracing their evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0.
• Product Strategy for Fintech: Develop a winning product strategy for fintech apps, encompassing product vision, differentiation, and goal setting using the OKR framework.
• Product Roadmap & Agile Planning: Learn to create effective agile product roadmaps, manage product backlogs, and execute sprint planning using tools like JIRA.
• Product Analytics: Leverage product analytics tools like Mixpanel and Google Analytics to understand user behavior, measure product value, and make data-driven decisions.
• Technical Skills for Product Managers: Acquire foundational technical skills including an introduction to internet workings, APIs, webpage components, and building basic web apps.

Course Structure:

Section 1: Introduction to Product Management

• What is a Product?
• Who is a Product Manager?
• The Product Team at GRAB and Stripe
• What is Product Management?
• Solving Problems with Product
• Product Team Dynamics & Product Development Process
• Product Selection & Course Workbook

Section 2: Entering the Fintech Universe

• Understanding Banks and Payment Systems
• Types of Money Instruments

Section 3: Global Payment Infrastructure

• Payment Infrastructure Across Countries
• Open Banking Infrastructure in the UK
• UPI Infrastructure in India
• Card Networks in the USA

Section 4: Security and Compliance in Fintech

• Payment Processors & Gateways
• Banking Licenses & Compliance
• Customer Security & Safety
• Fraud Prevention & Detection
• Disputes & Chargebacks
• Payment Instruments & Card Types
• Cross-Border Payment Systems (SWIFT)
• Direct Debit & ACH

Section 5: Exploring Fintech Applications

• Lending & Borrowing Platforms
• Embedded Finance
• Insurance Tech (InsureTech)
• Investment Platforms
• How Neobanks Generate Revenue

Section 6: Advanced Payment Technologies

• NFC Technology
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• E-money & E-wallets
• Banking as a Service (BaaS)
• Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Section 7: Crafting Your Fintech Product Strategy

• Product Strategy Fundamentals
• Product Strategy Stack for Fintech
• Product Vision & Vision Statement
• User Personas & Empathy Maps
• **User Journey