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GIFT IFI: An ADB-funded fintech school to teach coding to bankers, and banking to coders

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As the Babelian challenge of techies and finance professionals, who can’t understand or appreciate each other’s lingo and roles, threaten to trip the fintech juggernaut, GIFT International Fintech Institute (GIFT-IFI), which aims to bridge the talent gaps and foster innovation through startups, has its task cut out.

When the finance minister rises to present her Budget on Saturday, the inaugural batch of about three dozen students will begin their first course in “Fintech Foundations” at a freshly designed premises of GIFT International Fintech Institute (GIFT-IFI). Over the next few weekends, these young minds will learn the intricacies of the bustling fintech space at a state-of-the-art 9,000 sq ft “pioneer campus”, allocated in the domestic area of the

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