A student community begins
NFC’s official profile records its founding in 2024. The club later introduced its vision to the wider community at an official launch during BACF Night.
Our story
Curiosity brings us together.
Nanyang FinTech Catalyst is a student-led community at NTU, connecting finance, technology and the people who want to understand them.
From the classroom to the industryLearn. Build.
Learn. Build.
Find your people.
NFC is Nanyang Business School’s fintech community. We bring together students from different disciplines to explore financial technology through practical experiences and shared learning.
Our two academies create space to go deeper: QFA in quantitative research and engineering, and FEH in fintech research and publishing.
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Learn through experience
Workshops, practical lessons and mentorship turn an interest into skills you can use.
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Connect with industry
Panels, career conversations and office visits bring different perspectives to campus.
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Explore and create
Test a hypothesis, investigate a trend and share what you discover with a community that is learning alongside you.
NFC is listed among Nanyang Business School’s student clubs ↗.
Our historyA community built
A community built
through doing.
From a founding team to industry collaborations, research and student-built projects. These are some of the moments that have shaped NFC.
Five students. A growing community.
Founding President Kai Yang Tee’s first-year retrospective describes NFC growing from five students to more than 100 members, with the launch of QFA and FEH.
Read the founding-year retrospectiveSingapore Global Money Week
NFC joined the NTU Investment Interactive Club-led financial literacy campaign as a collaborating club, alongside other student organisations and industry partners.
Road to Startup
With NTU Entrepreneurship Academy, NFC hosted Money Pasar co-founders Haotian Tang and Adrin Manohar for a conversation on building a fintech startup and solving cross-border payment challenges.
BAFC × NFC FinTech Workshop
A joint workshop explored payments, investing and fintech careers, with alumni Starrie Lee and Marilyn Cheng sharing industry perspectives.
FinTech Innovator’s Hackathon
NFC organised a hackathon supported by Schroders, bringing students together to build solutions around AI, digital assets and investor needs. Projects included financial intelligence and wealth wellness tools.
FinSight: from fintech to quant finance
FinSight I brought industry perspectives on the fintech ecosystem to campus. FinSight II continued the series with practitioners discussing quantitative research, trading systems and careers.
Selected milestones from club announcements, partner recaps and programme records.
Learning, research & outreachMore ways to
More ways to
make an impact.
Inside MariBank
NFC’s visit included a product-management workshop, a user-experience case study and analysis of mock remittance data.
NFC and MariBank recapFEH on Medium
FEH launched a public outlet for student writing on digital payments, RegTech, blockchain and WealthTech.
Explore the publicationNBS Open House 2026
NFC’s work featured in a fintech seminar for prospective students and parents, including student presentations on WealthTech and retrieval-augmented generation in finance.
Founding President’s recapBe part of what’s next
Get involvedYour next chapter starts here.
Find your people, explore a new field, or bring an idea to life with NFC.