Expert-led payments education for professionals and teams. Practical learning, designed by people who work in payments, built to apply from day one.

The payments industry moves fast: rails multiply, regulation shifts, and the ecosystem grows more interconnected by the day. For the teams shaping how money moves, staying sharp is how good decisions get made.
The Academy equips professionals and organisations with the expertise, confidence, and practical skills needed to excel in the fast-moving world of payments. Our programmes are designed by industry practitioners and built around four principles: practical, collaborative, impactful, and curious.
The Academy equips professionals and organisations with the expertise, confidence, and practical skills needed to excel in the fast-moving world of payments. Our programmes are designed by industry practitioners and built around four principles: practical, collaborative, impactful, and curious.
Build shared payments capability across your team. Hybrid programmes, in-company check-ins, and tailored corporate training.
Grow your payments career with practical, self-paced learning you can apply right away.
Our courses are designed and delivered by payments professionals active in the ecosystem, not generic L&D providers. Every module reflects real operational challenges, so learners gain a shared payments vocabulary across product, risk, compliance, and commercial roles.
Every concept connects to a decision teams actually make at work. Learners apply what they've learned the same week, speeding up onboarding and time-to-productivity for new joiners.
Content evolves with the industry: new regulations, emerging payment methods, shifting customer behaviours. Learners make smarter decisions on payment flows, fees, and routing, and build knowledge they can grow on.
Self-paced digital learning, hybrid cohorts, and tailored corporate programmes, all designed around busy professionals and global teams. The result is capability that scales with the business and confidence that lasts beyond the course.
We hear the same challenges across the industry. None are unusual; they're the natural result of an industry that's grown faster than most learning paths.
Product, risk, compliance, and commercial work from different mental models.
New joiners depend on colleagues for context.
PSD, Open Banking, A2A, instant payments, stablecoins.
Gaps in pricing, scheme fees, and routing logic cost margin.
One-off training fades instead of compounding.
Self-paced theory plus tailored in-company check-ins
Enrol your team as a single cohort with scheduled sessions
Custom onboarding and reporting for L&D teams
Volume pricing for group enrolments.
A dedicated programme manager.
Direct Q&A access to our industry experts
PaymentGenes supported Thales PAY’s strategic transformation by delivering a tailored academy with courses, trainers, and hands-on learning.

The Foundation Course gives your team a single, structured map of the payments ecosystem, from how money moves to how risk is managed. Built and delivered by industry practitioners, this course is designed for teams that need to align fast.
What's inside

Eight expert-designed modules that give your team a single, structured map of the payments ecosystem, from how money moves to how fraud is managed.
Course at a glance:
Focused, expert-led deep-dives for teams that already have the fundamentals and want to go further. Delivered in-company, online or onsite.
Available and upcoming:
Payments is complex, fragmented, and short on clear learning paths. Whether you're new to the industry, switching careers, or have recently taken on payments responsibilities, the Academy gives you practical, industry-recognised knowledge you can apply right away.

Eight expert-designed modules that take you from how money moves to how fraud is managed, built to fit around a working schedule.
What's included: