This course examines the opportunities and risks arising from Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, and crypto assets, while exploring the regulatory framework for crypto asset services in the EU. It introduces the foundations of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and highlights their transformative applications in finance. The course also analyses AI’s growing role in banking and fintech, with a focus on risk management, customer services, and regulatory challenges. Participants will explore blockchain and AI risks, including scalability, interoperability, privacy, security threats, and vulnerabilities in smart contracts and exchanges. The course concludes with an overview of the EU’s regulatory response to crypto asset services, addressing compliance obligations for service providers and the integration of AI and blockchain risks into governance and oversight practices.
- Teacher: Dr. Theodosis Mourouzis