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A Sneak Peek at the CFA Fintech Exam
Some multiple-choice fun for the wannabe finance crowd.
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Wannabe bankers and analysts have for years sweated through the CFA Institute exam's multiple-choice questions in the hopes of striking it big in the City or Wall Street. But the qualification seems pretty old hat in a financial world that's more and more in thrall to the machines.
To try to drag itself into the 21 century -- sort of like when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. insists it's a tech company -- the CFA wants to add questions about A.I., crowd-funding and other whizzy fintech topics to the boring traditional stuff about portfolio valuation and cash flow analysis.