Executive Education

With over 15 years of industry experience and an academic research background, I deliver tailored executive education across all organizational levels in financial services.

From new analysts to C-suite executives, participants benefit from my practical insights and theoretical expertise. My empathetic approach ensures learning resonates with each audience's specific needs and challenges. I am assisting central banks, regulators, global banks and other institutions.

Current Courses

  • I design flexible and tailored executive education programs that address an organization's specific learning objectives and knowledge gaps in the digital asset and blockchain space.

    For example, I recently developed a comprehensive two-day program for the an Asian Central Bank and Regulator, covering both foundational blockchain concepts and intermediated crypto markets.

    This custom curriculum balanced theoretical frameworks with practical applications, featuring guest speakers from the industry and academia to provide diverse perspectives.

    The program included interactive exercises where participants applied their learning to assess crypto ecosystems and evaluate risks within crypto intermediaries.

Past Courses

  • The module focuses on the fundamentals of the token economy and peer to peer ways of doing business. It provides a framework for assessment of tokens and how to access such assets via centralised & decentralised exchanges. 

    Participants will understand the opportunities as well as risks of this new asset class, the maturity of current market structures as well as existing adoption in the financial services industry and beyond.

    At the end of the course, participants will learn the characteristics and benefits of blockchain technology, where it is applied, the concept of smart contracts, how to implement blockchain and the challenges and success factors for adoption of blockchain.

    The module focuses on the fundamentals of the token economy and peer to peer ways of doing business. It provides a framework for assessment of tokens and how to access such assets via centralised & decentralised exchanges. Participants will understand the opportunities as well as risks of this new asset class, the maturity of current market structures as well as existing adoption in the financial services industry and beyond. At the end of the course, participants will learn the characteristics and benefits of blockchain technology, where it is applied, the concept of smart contracts, how to implement blockchain and the challenges and success factors for adoption of blockchain.

    Learning Objectives

    • Understand the fundamentals of the future Token Economy and peer to peer/ private ways of doing business

    • Understand opportunities and risks of this new asset class as well as existing adoption in the financial services industry and beyond

    • Describe approach to begin Blockchain implementation and understand challenges and success factors involved

    Course Page:

    https://academy.smu.edu.sg/courses/digital-finance-module-2-digital-assets-and-blockchain-technology


  • Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is a financial infrastructure built on blockchain, and it is gaining increasing popularity with almost USD 55 billion deployed into it.

    Developers build DeFi applications on smart-contract-based platforms. They remove the need for traditional financial intermediaries like banks, insurers, exchanges and asset managers.

    This programme allows participants to understand the inner workings of this exciting FinTech innovation and provide a thorough introduction to DeFi, its opportunities, risks, and insights from industry experts.

    Learning Objectives

    • Learn about the origins of DeFi

    • Understand functions of DeFi infrastructure including smart contracts/ decentralised applications, oracles and stablecoins

    • Develop working knowledge of DeFi primitives, e.g., transactions, fungible and non-fungible tokens, custody, supply adjustment and incentives (staking/ slashing), swaps, collateralised and flash loans

    • Gain an appreciation of the problems that DeFi solves (inefficiency, limited access, opacity, centralised control, lack of interoperability)

    • Understand the different DeFi use-cases, e.g., Credit/ Lending, Decentralised Exchanges, Derivatives and Tokenisation

    • Gain an awareness of DeFi related risks, including smart-contract risk, governance risk, oracle risk, scaling risk, DEX risk and regulatory risk

    Course Page:

    https://academy.smu.edu.sg/courses/decentralised-finance-defi-new-financial-ecosystem

  • Fintech is reshaping the financial services industry in an unprecedented way. As the market matures, more and more fintechs are enablers, not disruptors. To effectively leverage fintech opportunities and remain competitive in this new environment, financial firms need to adapt their culture and business models to support fintech innovations. This three-day programme from RSM Executive Education is taught by industry pioneer and entrepreneur Daniel Liebau. It will equip you with an understanding of the latest and emerging fintech innovations, and their impact on the financial industry and beyond. Using real business cases, you will gain strategic insights into developing a mindset for growth, and for managing fintech opportunities in your organisation.

    Learning objectives

    After completing the programme, you will:

    • have the mindset needed to create a culture that supports innovation

    • be familiar with the history of innovation in finance

    • understand how fintech innovations - such as those based on distributed ledger technology - are transforming the financial services industry

    • know how to create value with fintech innovations in large financial organisations, for example through the application of machine learning

    • be able to leverage fintech opportunities for your organisation

    • have a basic understanding of innovation governance and agile management

    • be able to apply design thinking to the financial services industry

    • apply your knowledge in practice using your own fintech business case.

    Course page:

    https://www.iedp.com/programs/rsm-fintech-from-strategy-to-implementation-nov-2019/

  • The words Innovation and FinTech are all over the media and locally, authorities have made great efforts in championing Singapore as a FinTech hub. So if you are working in the financial services sector, the following questions naturally arise:

    What exactly is Innovation and FinTech?

    • How can you, in your established financial services company, enhance your products as well as your customers’ user experience through technology and human centered design?

    • Is your company prepared to compete and/ or collaborate with new FinTech companies entering the financial services industry and how should you go about doing this?

    • Do you have the capabilities that are required to stay relevant for your clients and innovate to ensure your company moves towards a sustainable business model after the global financial crisis?

    Integrating design principles, emerging technologies and new business models into your company’s digital ecosystem can help make your team think more holistically about your current and future customers’ needs and develop innovative value propositions without losing sight of current core offerings and revenue streams.

    In this FinTech: The Future of Money, Markets and Marketplaces course, you will find out the answers to the above questions through experiential learning and a mix of lectures, case studies, creative exercises, discussions, project work and class presentations.

    (Now taught by Derek Ariss and Zennon Kapron)

    Course Page:

    https://academy.smu.edu.sg/courses/fintech-future-money-markets-and-banking