The Future of Payment Technology (FutureLearn)

The Future of Payment Technology (FutureLearn)
Explore current and future payment technologies and develop your own innovative payment solutions with the University of Michigan. Discover the future of payment technology, from mobile payments to tokenization. On 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).

This course does not have open access anymore.

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.


What topics will you cover?

- Introduction to Fintech

- Digital Wallets

- Credit Card Innovations

- Payment Technology in Emerging Markets


What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Explain how current payment systems operate

- Describe inefficiencies in current practices in the processing of payments

- Apply new technological innovations to current inefficiencies

- Produce value propositions for new technologies in the payment space