Syllabus: Company Seminar
What You’ll Learn
The Paywise Academy seminar provides a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the global payments ecosystem — combining business models, technologies, and regulatory context. Content is updated monthly to reflect the latest developments across markets.
Syllabus: Company Seminar
What You’ll Learn
The Paywise Academy course provides a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the global payments ecosystem — combining business models, technologies, and regulatory context. Content is updated monthly to reflect the latest developments across markets.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of:
The Business Case for Payments:
Traditional and emerging models.
Payment systems and infrastructure:
How payment platforms enable credit, savings, and investment; core differences between systems and networks.
Payment cards and wallets:
Business models, market structure, digital wallets, and trends in consumer-facing payment products.
Account-to-account (A2A) payments:
Including instant payments, open banking payment initiation, ACH, RTGS, and check systems — for B2B, B2C, and P2P.
Digital currencies:
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and programmatic cryptocurrencies — and their use cases.
Decentralized finance (DeFi):
As a foundational infrastructure for emerging financial services beyond traditional rails.
Cross-border payments:
Global payment flows, foreign exchange, and evolving models in cross-border commerce.
Risk, regulation, and compliance:
Including digital identity, AML/CFT, fraud, cybersecurity, business continuity, privacy and data protection.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of:
The Business Case for Payments:
Traditional and emerging models
Payment systems and infrastructure:
How payment platforms enable credit, savings, and investment; core differences between systems and networks
Payment cards and wallets:
Business models, market structure, digital wallets, and trends in consumer-facing payment products
Account-to-account (A2A) payments:
Including instant payments, open banking payment initiation, ACH, RTGS, and check systems — for B2B, B2C, and P2P
Digital currencies:
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and programmatic cryptocurrencies — and their use cases
Decentralized finance (DeFi):
As a foundational infrastructure for emerging financial services beyond traditional rails
Cross-border payments:
Global payment flows, foreign exchange, and evolving models in cross-border commerce
Risk, regulation, and compliance:
Including digital identity, AML/CFT, fraud, cybersecurity, business continuity, privacy and data protection
Across all topics, we explore:
Latest trends, business opportunities and risks
Traditional and emerging players
Domestic and international perspectives
Key regulatory frameworks (PSD2, PSD3, IPR, IFR, SCA, DORA, GDPR, MiCA)