Payments Guild

Payments Guild

About this app

Payments Guild is the guild hall for payments professionals — a free, structured school for an industry that mostly teaches itself on the job.

THE SCHOOL
A ten-level curriculum, forty chapters, from your first card tap to scheme economics, regulation, and cross-border strategy. Written by a practitioner with over a decade inside the payments industry — not marketing content, the real machinery.

SEVEN SIMULATORS
Run transactions down the rails, tune a fraud engine, price a merchant portfolio, and explore the Product Stack — 41 issuing and acquiring products mapped and explained, with client stacks to build yourself.

THE WIRE
A curated daily briefing on the payments industry — schemes, processors, regulators — every headline linking to the original publisher.

THE DIRECTORY
The players across 58 markets on an interactive map.

THE GUILD EXAMINATION
Complete the curriculum, pass a timed examination, and earn a certificate anyone can verify online.

Free. Independent. No ads. Built for analysts, bankers, fintech builders, and anyone who has worked in payments for years and still wants the full picture.

What’s new

First public release of Payments Guild — free payments industry school, news briefing, simulators, and certification.