Smart Contracts for Banking Professionals
Your vendors are already pitching programmable money. This course makes sure you can tell what is real, ask the right questions, and hold your own in the room.
Twenty lessons across four parts, taught by Kevin Olsen, The Payments Professor. Written for bankers rather than programmers: every concept is anchored to something you already run, like escrow, letters of credit, loan servicing, and disbursements. No development experience required.
What you get
- 20 video lessons in four parts, each built around a banking scenario instead of a crypto example
- 20 vocabulary review videos, one after every lesson, with the official definitions and the plain-English Payments Professor take
- Part 1: How money actually moves today, covering rails, messages, ISO 20022, settlement, and the real cost of trust
- Part 2: Smart contracts through a banking lens, from the escrow example and oracles to trade finance, loan servicing, and conditional disbursements
- Part 3: What the institutions are actually building, including BIS Project Agora and Project Pine, mBridge, JPMorgan Kinexys, and the card networks
- Part 4: Reading the machinery, with just enough Solidity to read a contract, plus wallets, keys, signatures, and where smart contracts break
- 4 Part review tests, 20 questions each, with a passing score of 60% to unlock the next Part
- Certificate of Completion with your completion date and a unique serial number, issued once you finish all 20 lessons and pass all four review tests
- One year of access from your enrollment date, on any device, at your own pace
What you will walk away able to do
- Explain what a smart contract is, and what it is not, without reaching for crypto jargon
- Look at a programmable payment proposal and say exactly where the risk sits
- Open a contract, read it, and know what you are looking at
- Ask a vendor the questions that separate a real product from a pitch deck
- Brief your executives and your board on what is coming and what it means for your institution
Who it is for
Payments, operations, risk, compliance, and digital banking professionals at banks and credit unions who need to speak intelligently about smart contracts and programmable money without becoming developers.
All 20 lessons are live now
Enroll today and start right away. Every lesson and every vocabulary review is waiting in your account the moment you check out.
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Looking for seats for your whole team, or delivery inside your own LMS? Email kevin@paymentsprofessor.com and we will put together a quote.
This license covers one user for one year of access. Course content is educational and does not constitute legal advice.
