The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM, Calcutta) has announced its plans to launch an advanced program in FinTech and financial blockchain technology, targeting the management and financial professionals.

As per sources, the institute will collaborate with TalentSprint, a digital platform that offers Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain courses, to accomplish the goal. It will offer the course in IIM Calcutta’s premises as well as via TalentSprint’s online platform. The institute is looking forward to educate around 2000 FinTech professionals in the coming few years.

Indranil Bose, a program director at IIM, Calcutta, has said that the new Fintech program has been designed to educate the management and finance professionals to meet the growing demand for Fintech talents. He has stated that the program will leverage the research and consulting expertise of IIM Calcutta’s Finance Lab and its faculty.