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A Course Topics (83)
| ID | Topic | Problem/Question | Tier | Action |
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B Companies (25)
| ID | Company | Focus | Sector | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B1 | Stripe | How Stripe built economic infrastructure for the internet | Payment Infrastructure | Claim |
| B2 | Adyen | Unified commerce platform for global enterprises | Enterprise Payments | Claim |
| B3 | Square/Block | From card reader to Bitcoin and Cash App ecosystem | Merchant Ecosystem | Claim |
| B4 | PayPal/Venmo | P2P payments pioneer and social commerce evolution | Digital Wallets | Claim |
| B5 | Wise | Disrupting international money transfers with mid-market rates | Cross-Border | Claim |
| B6 | Plaid | The API layer connecting apps to bank accounts | Open Banking API | Claim |
| B7 | Revolut | From currency exchange to banking, trading, crypto | European Super-App | Claim |
| B8 | Nubank | Latin America's largest digital bank by customers | Emerging Markets | Claim |
| B9 | Chime | Disrupting US retail banking with fee-free model | US Neobank | Claim |
| B10 | N26 | German mobile bank expanding across Europe | Mobile Banking | Claim |
| B11 | Monzo | Community-driven UK digital bank | UK Challenger | Claim |
| B12 | Klarna | Buy Now Pay Later leader's path to profitability | BNPL Pioneer | Claim |
| B13 | Affirm | Point-of-sale financing with transparent pricing | POS Lending | Claim |
| B14 | Upstart | Machine learning for credit decisions beyond FICO | AI Lending | Claim |
| B15 | SoFi | Student loans to full-service financial platform | Diversified Fintech | Claim |
| B16 | Coinbase | Public crypto exchange navigating regulation | Crypto Exchange | Claim |
| B17 | Circle/USDC | Building trust in digital dollars | Stablecoins | Claim |
| B18 | Uniswap | Automated market making without intermediaries | DeFi/AMM | Claim |
| B19 | Aave | Decentralized lending protocol governance | DeFi Lending | Claim |
| B20 | Chainalysis | Making crypto transparent for compliance | Blockchain Analytics | Claim |
| B21 | Bloomberg | The terminal that runs Wall Street | Financial Data | Claim |
| B22 | Temenos | Powering 3,000+ banks worldwide | Core Banking | Claim |
| B23 | Thought Machine | Next-gen core banking in the cloud | Cloud Banking | Claim |
| B24 | Feedzai | Real-time fraud prevention at scale | Fraud Detection | Claim |
| B25 | Robinhood | Democratizing finance or gamifying risk? | Retail Trading | Claim |
C Theories (18)
| ID | Theory | Description | Authors | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Two-Sided Markets | Payment networks, marketplaces, exchanges - how platforms connect user groups | Rochet & Tirole (2003) | Claim |
| C2 | Network Effects | Platform adoption, winner-take-all dynamics, critical mass | Katz & Shapiro (1985) | Claim |
| C3 | Platform Competition | Multi-homing, switching costs, tipping points | Armstrong (2006) | Claim |
| C4 | Market for Lemons | Information asymmetry, adverse selection in credit markets | Akerlof (1970) | Claim |
| C5 | Signaling Theory | Credit signals, quality certification, costly signals | Spence (1973) | Claim |
| C6 | Screening Theory | Insurance, credit scoring, self-selection mechanisms | Stiglitz (1975) | Claim |
| C7 | Moral Hazard | Insurance, lending, post-contract opportunism | Arrow (1963) | Claim |
| C8 | Principal-Agent Theory | Robo-advisors, fund managers, governance alignment | Jensen & Meckling (1976) | Claim |
| C9 | Transaction Cost Economics | Make vs buy, vertical integration, DeFi disintermediation | Coase & Williamson | Claim |
| C10 | Mechanism Design | Auction design, token economics, DAO governance | Hurwicz (2007) | Claim |
| C11 | Contract Theory | Smart contracts, incomplete contracts, incentive design | Hart & Holmstrom (2016) | Claim |
| C12 | Modern Portfolio Theory | Robo-advisors, asset allocation, diversification | Markowitz (1952) | Claim |
| C13 | Black-Scholes Model | Options pricing, DeFi derivatives, Greeks | Black & Scholes (1973) | Claim |
| C14 | Efficient Market Hypothesis | Algorithmic trading, market prediction limits | Fama (1970) | Claim |
| C15 | Behavioral Finance | Investor biases, nudges, app design psychology | Kahneman & Tversky (1979) | Claim |
| C16 | Nash Equilibrium | Consensus mechanisms, competitive dynamics, strategic interaction | Nash (1950) | Claim |
| C17 | Auction Theory | MEV, order flow auctions, AMM design optimization | Vickrey (1961) | Claim |
| C18 | Information Cascades | Herding behavior, bank runs, crypto market crashes | Banerjee (1992) | Claim |