Financial Services Industry Knowledge Accelerator

This learning path contains a series of videos and learning resources to teach you an introductory overview of financial services. In this path, you’ll learn general challenges faced today in financial services, industry solutions specific to this sector, and how MongoDB helps to facilitate innovation in this area.


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  • Industry Knowledge Accelerator Courses


    Introduction MongoDB for Financial Services Industry (FSI)

    Required
    Microcourse
    | Industry Solutions

    1 Hour

    Wei You Pan, Principal of Financial Services at MongoDB, walks us through the financial services landscape, introducing some of the main challenges faced by the industry, including modernizing legacy infrastructure, protecting customer information, and achieving high availability and scalability. This intro video gives an overview of the key role played by MongoDB and how industry leaders such as Macquarie, Featurespace, and Temenos leveraged the MongoDB developer data platform to set themselves up for success and to future-proof their data infrastructure.
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    Introduction to Key Payment Trends and Initiatives for Financial Services

    Required
    Microcourse
    | Industry Solutions

    40 Minutes

    In this video, Wei You Pan, Director of Financial Services at MongoDB provides an overview of key payment rails/schemes starting with the popular payment methods used for ecommerce, cross-border payments and then the instant payment rails. Wei You also covers key standards and framework that impact the payments landscape, as well as the MongoDB use case for development of payment applications.
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    Card Fraud Prevention for Financial Services

    Required
    Microcourse
    | Industry Solutions

    25 Minutes

    In this video, Shiv Pullepu, Principal of Financial Services at MongoDB will talk about current challenges with card fraud and discuss how we can address these using MongoDB and using advanced AI tools such as Databricks.
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    Blockchain for Financial Services

    Required
    Microcourse
    | Industry Solutions

    10 Minutes

    Learn the basics of blockchain and ledgers, including the key factors to look at when developing applications in this space, and the differences between Centralized and Decentralized Finance.
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    Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas

    Elective
    Unit
    | Katie Redmiles, Camden Kirkland, Emily Pope, Manuel Fontan Garcia, Sequoyha Pelletier, Colleen Day, Julianna Chen, John McCambridge, Davenson Lombard

    1.25 Hours

    Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas, the modern, multi-cloud data platform, and deploy your first cluster. Plus, learn the foundations of MongoDB and get an overview of its architecture.
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    MongoDB and the Document Model

    Elective
    Unit
    | Sequoyha Pelletier, Manuel Fontan Garcia, Colleen Day, Daniel Curran, Sarah Evans, John McCambridge, Davenson Lombard

    1.25 Hours

    Learn about the MongoDB document model and the data types it supports. In addition, learn basic principles of data modeling in MongoDB and how to use Atlas to manage your documents and collections.
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    Connecting to a MongoDB Database

    Elective
    Unit
    | Sarah Evans, Parker Faucher, Daniel Curran

    1.75 Hours

    Learn how to connect to MongoDB databases by using connection strings. Connection strings allow you to connect your cluster with the mongo shell, with Compass (our GUI that enables querying, optimizing and analyzing MongoDB data), and to an application.
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    MongoDB Atlas Administration

    Elective
    Unit
    | Sarah Evans, Vick Mena

    1 Hour

    Learn how to administer a MongoDB deployment with Atlas. Using the Atlas UI and CLI, you'll learn and practice configuration, checking cluster health and status, database and user management, and accessing and reading logs of MongoDB deployments.
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    MongoDB Atlas Security

    Elective
    Unit
    | Vick Mena, Sarah Evans, Parker Faucher

    2 Hours

    Learn about basic security concepts and encryption. Then, you'll learn about the security features provided by MongoDB Atlas to help keep your deployments secure.
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    MongoDB Transactions

    Elective
    Unit
    | Camden Kirkland, Sarah Evans, Parker Faucher

    1 Hour

    Learn about ACID transactions in MongoDB and how they guarantee certain database operations happen together or not at all to ensure data integrity within the database.
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    Getting Started with the Atlas CLI

    Elective
    Learning Byte
    | 20 Minutes
    Learn about MongoDB’s Atlas Command Line Interface and how it can help you get started with Atlas fast and support the entire software development lifecycle.
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    MongoDB Compass

    Elective
    Learning Byte
    | 20 Minutes
    Learn how to use MongoDB Compass: the official Graphical User Interface built by – and for – MongoDB. This Learning Byte will cover how to set up and use MongoDB Compass to oversee and optimize your database.
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    Queryable Encryption

    Elective
    Learning Byte
    | Cynthia Braund

    10 Minutes

    Learn about Queryable Encryption's process of encrypting sensitive client-side data, securely storing it in the database, and executing queries on the encrypted data.
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    Field Encryption with MongoDB Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE)

    Elective
    Learning Byte
    | Pierre Petersson

    20 Minutes

    Learn to encrypt your data before sending it over to MongoDB with Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE).
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