What you will be able to do
- Understand payment, lending and savings systems
- build a simple payment or wallet integration
- analyse financial data
- apply fraud detection and risk basics
- follow regulatory expectations
Syllabus
- 1 Financial system basics
- 2 Payment rails and mobile money
- 3 Payment gateway integration
- 4 Lending, credit scoring and savings groups
- 5 Accounting systems integration
- 6 Fraud detection and security
- 7 Regulation and consumer protection
- 8 Data dashboards for finance
- 9 Product design for financial inclusion
- 10 Fintech prototype
Hands-on practical activities
- Integrate a test payment gateway into a shop
- build a savings-group tracker
- analyse a sample loan book
- design and test a fraud rule set
Resources and equipment
Laptops, payment sandbox accounts, sample datasets, accounting software, SQL database
🔋 No power? Off-grid option
Local development with simulated payments
Career direction
Fintech developer, payment operations analyst, credit analyst, financial inclusion product assistant
Why it matters in the market
Fintech and mobile finance are fast-growing and need developers and analysts
Assessment
Working prototype and risk report
Progression
From EX6, TR6 or TR9; stacks with MK1, MK2