Course: Alternative Finance

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Select section Week 0 - Introduction to the course

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Week 0 - Introduction to the course
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- Select activity Welcome!
  
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Select section Week 1 - Alternative finance: the different types of AF providers

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Week 1 - Alternative finance: the different types of AF providers
Week 1 is related to the different types of Alternative Finance providers.
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- Select activity Alternative finance: taxonomy and characteristics; facts and figures
  
  Alternative finance: taxonomy and characteristics; facts and figures Page
  
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- Select activity Private equity and venture capital: definitions and characteristics
  
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- Select activity Successful stories from venture financing
  
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- Select activity Debt financing and mini-bonds in AF: practices and players
  
  Debt financing and mini-bonds in AF: practices and players Page
  
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- Select activity Direct lending to SMEs
  
  Direct lending to SMEs Page
  
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- Select activity Invoice trading platforms: business models
  
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- Select activity Successful stories from debt financing of SMEs
  
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- Select activity Reward-based crowdfunding
  
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- Select activity Equity crowdfunding: models and processes
  
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- Select activity Quiz - Week 1
  
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Select section Week 2 - Alternative finance: startup’s evaluation, legal and marketing issues, risks for investors

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Week 2 - Alternative finance: startup’s evaluation, legal and marketing issues, risks for investors
Week 2 is about startup’s evaluation, legal and marketing issues and risks for investors.
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- Select activity Legal and compliance issues in crowd-investing
  
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- Select activity P2P lending
  
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- Select activity Success stories from crowdfunding
  
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- Select activity Impact finance
  
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- Select activity Evaluating entrepreneurial projects and startups
  
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- Select activity Assessing the credit risk and rating for SMEs – How to develop a credit scoring model
  
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- Select activity Marketing strategies in AF: how to run a successful fundraising campaign
  
  Marketing strategies in AF: how to run a successful fundraising campaign Page
  
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- Select activity Improving the transparency of AF providers and investors' trust
  
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- Select activity Is alternative finance a profitable investment?
  
  Is alternative finance a profitable investment? Page
  
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- Select activity Quiz - Week 2
  
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Select section Week 3 - The FinTech Ecosystem: actors and technologies

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Week 3 - The FinTech Ecosystem: actors and technologies
Week 3 is related to the actors and technologies in the FinTech Ecosystem. Part of the videos in this week have been produced and recorded by the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research-University of Manchester.
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- Select activity Equity Crowdfunding for Creative Industries: actual scenario and possible landscape
  
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- Select activity Crowdfunding for a real alternative financial system: creating new fintech stakeholders
  
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- Select activity The FinTech Ecosystem
  
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- Select activity FinTech - Emergent Trajectories in Alternative Finance (part 1)
  
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- Select activity FinTech - Emergent Trajectories in Alternative Finance (part 2)
  
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- Select activity Payment Technologies
  
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- Select activity Digital Platform Technologies
  
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- Select activity Distributed Ledger Technologies
  
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- Select activity Initial Coin Offerings
  
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- Select activity Regulatory Technologies
  
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- Select activity Quiz - Week 3
  
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Select section Week 4 - Additional material

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Week 4 - Additional material
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- Select activity Webinar 1
  
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- Select activity Webinar 6
  
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Select section Final Survey

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Final Survey
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Select section {mlang it}Open Badge{mlang}{mlang en}Certificate{mlang}

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{mlang it}Open Badge{mlang}{mlang en}Certificate{mlang}
Not available unless: You achieve higher than a certain score in Course total ...

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You achieve higher than a certain score in Course total

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Select section Additional resources

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Additional resources
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