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Imarticus Learning, India's leading professional  education company, today announced a major revamp of its FinTech program, relaunching it as the Certified FinTech Operations Professional (CFOP) program, a no-code, placement-focused certification now built around three pillars: FinTech operations, AI, and  Business Analytics, integrating the recent revolution brought by fintech and digital finance companies in India. The updated program builds on Imarticus Learning's FinTech Operations curriculum, embedding AI and  business analytics across every module to prepare B.Com, BBA and finance graduates for the next generation of FinTech careers.



The updated course responds directly to where hiring in financial operations is headed. FinTech employers no longer want operations talent that only understands process; they want graduates who can also work alongside AI-driven tools for reconciliation, fraud detection and risk monitoring. CFOP's updated curriculum folds AI and Business Analytics training into every module, so learners graduate fluent in both the business of FinTech operations and the technology now reshaping it.



The revamp builds on a placement track record the company expects this AI-and-Business Analytics upgrade to extend further. Imarticus Learning has placed 2,500+ freshers in finance roles in FY 2025–26, with offers logged every month of the year, peaking at 250+ placements in January 2026 alone. The October–December 2025 quarter was the strongest of the year, delivering 800+ placements. The revamped, AI-first version of CFOP now aims to build on that foundation as employer demand shifts toward AI-literate operations talent



Most of the conversation around FinTech careers gravitates toward engineering and product roles. But a largely overlooked share of the hiring boom sits in operations: settlements, reconciliations, KYC and AML monitoring, fraud investigation, credit risk and claims processing work increasingly layered with AI-assisted tools and analytics dashboards. None of it requires writing code. All of it now requires people who understand both how money moves through a financial institution and how AI is changing that movement.



That demand is being amplified by two forces converging at once: the rapid scale-up of Global Capability Centres (GCCs) by multinational banks and asset managers, and India's own emergence as one of the world's leading FinTech markets, home to unicorns like PhonePe, Zerodha, Razorpay and Groww, alongside global banks and fintechs building out India-based operations hubs. Together, they've created thousands of operations roles that most finance graduates aren't trained for, not because the work is hard to learn, but because nobody's teaching the AI-and-Business Analytics layer of it at scale. The revamped CFOP is built to close that specific gap.



The hiring roster behind this year's placement run reads like a cross-section of global financial infrastructure: PhonePe, Razorpay, Slice, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Nomura, Societe Generale, Citi, Northern Trust and MSCI all hired from Imarticus Learning. State Street Bank was the single largest recruiter, absorbing 374 graduates, roughly one in every six finance placements made over the year.



Commenting on the launch Mr. Nikhil Barshikar, Founder and CEO of Imarticus Learning said, "India's FinTech revolution has created a new category of finance careers that extend far beyond traditional banking and accounting roles. Today's employers are looking for professionals who understand transactions, compliance, operations and risk management, but increasingly, they're also looking for people comfortable working alongside AI and analytics tools. That's exactly why we've Certified FinTech Operations Professional (CFOP) program: to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and what FinTech recruiters are actually screening for today. The impact of this approach already shows in our placement outcomes, the highest by any finance program at any institute in India, including opportunities with firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Nomura, Societe Generale, Citi, Northern Trust, MSCI and State Street Bank. As AI becomes table stakes in FinTech operations, our goal is simple: make sure every learner who comes through this program is ready for it."



The program runs in two formats a 3-month weekday track for fresh graduates and a 6-month weekend track for working professionals looking to pivot, and covers the full FinTech stack: digital payments, lending, wealth management, insurtech, compliance frameworks, and the application of AI and Analytics across financial operations, alongside hands-on training in Excel, Power BI, SQL and automation tools learners will actually use on the job.



Its centrepiece is the FinTech Catalyst, a set of three live operational simulations, reconciliation, fraud investigation and workflow automation, each closed out with a debrief led by industry practitioners. Learners leave with a portfolio of real, demonstrable work, not just a certificate.