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FedNow® Risk Assessment Self-Assessment Guide and Tool
Manage risk and stay compliant with the “Getting Started with FedNow® Risk Assessments” and FedNow® Self-Assessment Tool from the Payments Professor.
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Explore the full spectrum of U.S. payment networks—from traditional rails to emerging technologies like RTP® and crypto.
What You’ll Learn and Gain:
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An understanding of U.S. payment channels and how they work
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Key differences between ACH, wires, cards, RTP®, FedNow®, and alternative payments
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Regulatory and compliance essentials across networks
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Strategic use cases for businesses and financial institutions
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Access to the 100+ page “Introduction to Payment Channels” workbook
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FedNow® Onboarding
FedNow Onboarding Success: Learn Before Going Online
Learn the critical decisions needed during onboarding to be well-prepared so that you don't have to figure it all out on your own, or have to redo everything.
You'll walk away with 3.5 AAP Credits, a Certificate of Completion, and the tools you need to know for onboarding to the FedNow®
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Payments Professor's FedNow®Certificate
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Whether you’re already a FedNow® Participant or still evaluating your strategy, this course will help you:
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Comply with FedNow® network requirements
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Implement advanced fraud controls and operational risk frameworks
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Identify and launch new revenue-driving use cases
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Align teams across ops, IT, compliance, and senior leadership
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Prepare for regulatory exams and internal audits
HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH OF . . .
Long boring webinars delivered in a monotone voice, one syllable at a time, plaguing the electronic payments industry because no one has been willing to take a chance at making electronic payments rules and regulations fun and engaging?
The Payments Professor guides you on a learning journey to discover what you need to know about FedNow to make your job easier, keep your organization compliant, and keep your account holders happy.
The Payments Professor provides full courses on FedNow, from ISO to basics and everything else you need to know, in short, video format in a fun and engaging style so that you learn about complex subjects at your pace when and from where you want.
Through Payments Professor courses, you are guided on a learning journey to understand everything you need to know about the FedNow network.
The Payments Professor is here for all of you who have suffered through long, boring webinars desperately trying to learn new rules, regulations, and systems.
By taking complicated subjects and making them easier to understand through bite-size entertaining videos, you can master FedNow®, RTP®, and other payment channels by enrolling in classes today.
From comprehension to compliance, we are here to help. Explore how we can help bring payments education to your team:

I CAN STILL REMEMBER . . .
The pain of having to learn the multitude of rules and regulations surrounding electronic payments and wondering if I’d survive long enough to collect my next paycheck.Â
Sitting through long, boring webinars, reading rules and regulations that seemed to be written by a Martian in a special code only a Hogwarts graduate could decipher.Â
That’s why I dedicated myself to finding ways to make electronic payment education fun, engaging, and entertaining so everyone could learn and succeed.

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Pidgin is the Payment Professor’s recommended service provider for accessing the FedNow service or RTP network.
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