◆ Topic hubs

13 hubs for regulated payments.

Every essay and case study is grouped under a topic hub. Pick a hub to see the working knowledge base for that domain.

Payment Infrastructure

Building the regulated rails, pay-in, payout, ledgers, orchestration and the operating model that runs them.

58 essays2 case studies

Cross-Border Payments

Corridors, FX, partner routing and the product economics of moving money across markets.

39 essays3 case studies

SWIFT & ISO 20022

SWIFT messaging, gpi, ISO 20022 migration, correspondent banking and the standards layer of cross-border.

25 essays1 case studies

Settlement & Reconciliation

Ledger design, three-way reconciliation, exception management and treasury, the trust layer of payments.

31 essays2 case studies

Merchant Onboarding

KYC/KYB automation, risk tiering, activation funnel and the trade-off between conversion and default.

38 essays2 case studies

Fraud & AML/CFT

Layered fraud controls, AML/CFT monitoring, sanctions screening, chargebacks and the false-positive budget.

40 essays5 case studies

Payment APIs

API design for pay-in, payout, local methods and developer experience in regulated environments.

7 essays0 case studies

Emerging Markets

MENA, South Asia and the operating realities that pressure-test payments outside the OECD model.

32 essays5 case studies

AI in Fintech & Payments

GenAI use-case identification, value modeling, three production AI systems and one fraud/AML banking pilot across regulated payments operations.

46 essays3 case studies

Crypto & Stablecoin Payments

On-ramps and off-ramps, stablecoin settlement, custody design, Travel Rule and VARA/FATF alignment for regulated payments teams.

12 essays0 case studies

Program Management & PMO

PMBOK + Agile hybrid frameworks, RAID logs, SteerCo governance, OKRs and the PMO stack that actually ships at $1B+ scale.

61 essays1 case studies

Product Management

What the role owns in a payments company, the frameworks that survive contact with regulators and settlement, and the mistakes that end products.

41 essays3 case studies

Banks & Fintech

Bank and fintech partnerships, banking-as-a-service, open banking and core banking, written from the fintech seat that has to satisfy the bank.

32 essays1 case studies