The Future of Payment Technologies
Discover the future of payment technology, from mobile payments to tokenization.In this course, you will learn new ways of making payments from consumer-to-business (C2B), from consumer-to-consumer (C2C), and from business-to-business (B2B).
You will explore current payment system technologies to examine their strengths and weaknesses, and understand the ways technological innovation is changing these traditional systems.
You’ll learn about new front-end innovations like digital wallets and mobile payments and also discover back-end innovations like tokenization, mobile money, and new payment infrastructure.
Explain how current payment systems operate.
Describe inefficiencies in current practices in the processing of payments.
Relate new technological innovations to current inefficiencies.
Build value propositions for new technologies in the payment space.
Syllabus
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Introduction and What is FinTech?
Week 2
Digital Wallets
Week 3
Credit Card Innovations
Week 4
Payment Technology in Emerging Markets
FAQ
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Is financial aid available?
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
Reviews
Easy and comprehensive course about payment technologies, that will give you clear explanation about the past and current options of payment and gives you idea how it could be developed in future.
Fantastic course. Provide in -depth knowledge and insight of fintech space. I really liked taking this course which has inspired me to take more courses from coursera.
Paytech Week 4 MPESA mobile payment system - pls more details on the monetization - how do the agents earn money? what about the rest of the players? Based on payment processing/ withdrawal etc. ?
This is really a good course on payment technologies which we are using in present and will help you to learn the things happen at back end. i would recommend all finance student to opt for it.
