The Future of Payment Technologies (Coursera)

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.

Course 1 of 4 in the Financial Technology (Fintech) Innovations Specialization.

What You Will Learn

- 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

WEEK 1: Introduction and What is FinTech?

WEEK 2: Digital Wallets

WEEK 3: Credit Card Innovations

WEEK 4: Payment Technology in Emerging Markets