Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology has partnered with two financial technology firms which will provide its students exposure to the financial technology and cryptocurrency business world.

The partnership is between Swinburne and small business loan provider Judo Bank along with Banxa, a payment service provider with a fiat to crypto platform whose clients include Binance, KuCoin, and Trezor amongst others.

Students of the university’s Master of Financial Technology (FinTech) course will be “exposed to real life examples and cases across the spectrum of financial services,” Dr. Dimitrios Salampasis Swinburne’s Director of the Master of FinTech told Cointelegraph.

Dr. Salampasis said Judo Bank is “one of the most innovative FinTech unicorns, one of the very few unicorns in Australia” while Banxa is a “massively interesting organization” who are “very serious in the job that they do in the blockchain and the crypto space”.

“Maybe they want to show our students some simulations of their processes, do some sort of presentation on their products and services or have a debate,” he said, “maybe even give our students a real project to work on.”

The partnership sees Banxa and Judo Bank co-creating content, hosting lectures and providing case studies. Students will have access to each of the companies networks as part of the partnership, which Dr. Salampasis says will allow the industry to “tap into future talent”.

Dr. Salampasis was 2021’s Blockchain Educator of the Year Awardee from the country’s main industry body Blockchain Australia.

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