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Payments education, risk, and strategy for the banks, credit unions, and fintechs that can't afford to get FedNow®, RTP®, ACH, or stablecoins wrong.

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3 Decades · in Electronic Payments

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AAPAccredited ACH Professional

APRPAccredited Payments Risk Professional

AFPPAccredited Faster Payments Professional

NCPNational Check Payments Certification

CHPCCertified High Performance Coach

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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.

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.

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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