THE PAYMENTS PROFESSOR • CERTIFICATE COURSE
Smart Contracts for Banking Professionals
Smart contracts and programmable money, explained for bankers, not programmers.
Twenty video lessons across four Parts take you from how money actually moves today to reading a real contract. Every concept is anchored to work you already know, like escrow, letters of credit, loan servicing, and disbursements, so you can ask sharp questions of vendors, examiners, and your own leadership. No crypto or coding background required.
Self-paced • Certificate of completion • Taught by Kevin "The Payments Professor" Olsen
One-time enrollment: $499
Enroll & Get Certified: $499Why bankers choose this course
Plain-English education on programmable money, built around the work your institution already does.
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Plain English, no crypto required
Written for bankers rather than programmers. Official definitions paired with plain-English Payments Professor takes, plus a vocabulary review video after every lesson.
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Built around real banking workflows
Escrow, letters of credit and trade finance, loan servicing, collateral and margin calls, and programmable payments with conditional disbursements.
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Ready for examiner and vendor conversations
Understand keys and digital signatures, oracles, audits, and governance well enough to ask the questions that separate a real product from a pitch deck.
What you'll learn
Twenty lessons in four Parts, each followed by a vocabulary review video:
Part 1: How Money Actually Moves Today
- Lesson 1: Why a Banking Professional Should Care About Smart Contracts
- Lesson 2: The Anatomy of a Payment: Rails, Messages, and Settlement
- Lesson 3: ISO 20022: The New Common Language of Money
- Lesson 4: What ‘Settlement’ Really Means, and Why It Takes Days
- Lesson 5: Ledgers, Reconciliation, and the Cost of Trust
- Part 1 Review Test: 20 questions, pass at 60% to unlock the next Part
Part 2: Smart Contracts Through a Banking Lens
- Lesson 6: What a Smart Contract Actually Is (No Crypto Required)
- Lesson 7: The Escrow Example: Your First Smart Contract, Explained
- Lesson 8: Oracles: How a Contract Learns What Happened in the Real World
- Lesson 9: Letters of Credit and Trade Finance, Reimagined
- Lesson 10: Automated Loan Servicing, Collateral, and Margin Calls
- Lesson 11: Programmable Payments and Conditional Disbursements
- Part 2 Review Test: 20 questions, pass at 60% to unlock the next Part
Part 3: What the Institutions Are Actually Building
- Lesson 12: Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins vs. CBDCs
- Lesson 13: Wholesale Settlement: BIS Project Agora and Project Pine
- Lesson 14: Cross-Border Corridors: mBridge and the Politics of Money
- Lesson 15: Inside a Bank’s Program: JPMorgan Kinexys
- Lesson 16: Visa, Mastercard, and Programmable Money on Existing Rails
- Part 3 Review Test: 20 questions, pass at 60% to unlock the next Part
Part 4: Reading the Machinery
- Lesson 17: Just Enough Solidity to Read a Contract
- Lesson 18: Wallets, Keys, and Digital Signatures for Bankers
- Lesson 19: Where Smart Contracts Break: Risk, Audits, and Failures
- Lesson 20: The Road Ahead: Compliance, Regulation, and Your Playbook
- Part 4 Review Test: 20 questions, pass at 60% to finish the course
Finish with your Certificate of Completion
Complete all 20 lessons and pass all four Part review tests to earn your Certificate of Completion, issued with your completion date and a unique serial number.
Meet your instructor
Kevin Olsen, AAP, APRP, AFPP, NCP, CHPC
The Payments Professor
Kevin is a payments educator, author, and keynote speaker for banks and credit unions, with three decades in electronic payments. He takes the rules, systems, and new technology that usually put people to sleep and turns them into short, engaging lessons that everyone understands and can put to work.
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This license covers one user for one year of access. Course content is educational and does not constitute legal advice.
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