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Strategic Digital Transformation in Finance Module 2: Digitalisation Implementation in Financial Services

  • Analytics & Tech
  • Finance & Investment
Next Intake: 16 Oct 2025 (Thu)
  • Basic
  • SkillsFuture
  • Short Courses
  • This module is part of SMU-ACCA Innovate & Ignite Series

This module is conducted in-person.

Next course starts on
16 Oct 2025 (Thu) See Full Schedule
Fee
SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 Full Days (Weekdays)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Directors, CFOs, Financial Controllers, accounting and finance professionals
  • Senior Decision Makers for Business Strategy in medium-to-large corporates and institutions, including C-suite and one-downs, and Board of Directors
  • Senior Managers, influencers and change agents in medium-to-large corporates and institutions which are intending to, or in the process of undergoing digital transformation.  Senior Managers include, but are not limited to Department Heads, Vice Presidents and Directors
     

PREREQUISITES

Participant should have at least:

  • a Bachelor's Degree or
  • Diploma with at least 3 years working experience

Overview

Today’s advanced technologies - accompanied by similar advances in processes for technology development and implementation - are poised to transform the entire financial services industry.

The digital transformation that has upended industries from retail and media to transport and business-to-business commerce is now sweeping the financial services industry. Although financial services have been computerised for decades, with products such as retail brokerage using digital channels for some 20 years, a more radical transformation of the industry has been delayed till recent years. This was inevitable, as ubiquitous computing power, pervasive connectivity, mass data storage, and advanced analytical tools can easily and efficiently be applied to financial services.

A new wave of FinTech companies is offering point solutions in product areas such as payments, remittances, savings and investments, personal financial management, trade and invoice finance, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), lending, and insurance. Innovations are also directed at processes such as Anti-Money Laundering-Know Your Customer (AML-KYC) compliance, credit scoring, underwriting and risk management, customer service, collections and recovery, capital markets activities, asset securitisation, middle- and back-office reporting, trade processing, and connectivity between banking systems.

Programme Partner

Learning Objectives

  • Learn about the development of finance and technology in recent history, major technological trends and stakeholders in the ecosystem
  • Gain insights into how new technologies are reinventing financial services in the new ecosystem
  • Learn about the concepts and functionality of these technologies and how they are being used to provide services, how they work and where the opportunities and challenges are
  • Understand how companies/ financial service institutions can leverage into the future and select the right digitalisation strategy in order to increase their client outreach and deliver a wide range of financial services via new channels
  • Learn how financial service institutions can respond to new regulations with agility, while ensuring that that the customer experience does not suffer

Participants will be able to earn 14 CPD Points awarded by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants when they attend this module.

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

John Vincent
Business Consultant
John Vincent
Business Consultant

John is a business consultant specialising in financial institutions and fintech partnerships. Previously, as Director of Strategic Partnerships at SC Ventures, Standard Chartered, he built business relationships to enable retail banking solutions for platforms. He collaborated with GovTech to integrate MyInfo into digital applications for non-face-to-face onboarding. Before banking, he focused on digital transformation, driving conversions to digital channels and reducing acquisition costs across industries, including at MBS. He's spoken at SMU Academy and NUS on financial innovation. John holds an MBA from Nanyang Technical University, an AMP from UC Berkeley in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Marketing, and an AMP from Nanyang Business School in Strategic Capabilities and Asian Leadership.

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