Payment Architecture and APIs

Hubs, platforms, gateways and integration, the engineering view.

The architecture bundle. Payment hub architecture, API banking and open banking, payment gateway architecture, payment platform architecture, system design deep dive, payment data model and mapping, the payment hub enterprise architecture, and open banking, PSD2 and PSD3.

8 chapters · 62 lessons · ₹2,499

Estimated duration: 3.8 hours of narration, plus exercises, simulators and tests.

Who this course is for

Solution architects, engineers and technical business analysts designing payment platforms.

Prerequisites

ISO 20022 and SWIFT Messaging, or equivalent technical payments knowledge.

What you will learn

• Design a payment hub architecture.
• Design a payment API contract in OpenAPI, including idempotency and error handling.
• Explain event-driven payment architecture and Kafka.
• Design for resilience and disaster recovery.
• Explain cloud and deployment architecture for payment platforms.
• Explain OAuth2 and mTLS for payment APIs.

Practical exercises

Every lesson includes a practical exercise in the lesson player, with the problem, the information available, the action expected, what counts as a correct result, and why the answer is correct. This course has 62 exercises, one per lesson, plus the hands-on labs and simulators listed below.

What you will produce

• A payment hub architecture document.
• An OpenAPI contract for a payment API.
• A resilience and disaster recovery design.

Completion criteria

• Finish all lessons in the bundle.
• Pass the Architecture Test and the APIs Test with 70% or more.
• Complete the Hub Architecture Simulator and API Playground exercises.

Included chapters

• Payment Hub Architecture (8 lessons)
• Payment Gateway Architecture (7 lessons)
• Payment Platform Architecture and Your Career (7 lessons)
• System Design Deep Dive (7 lessons)
• Payment Data Model and Mapping (7 lessons)
• Payment Hub: Enterprise Architecture (10 lessons)
• API Banking and Open Banking (9 lessons)
• Open Banking, PSD2 and PSD3 (7 lessons)

Practice tests included

Timed multiple-choice tests for this material, with the correct answer and an explanation for every question.

• Architecture Test (10 questions · 10 minutes)
• APIs and Integration Test (16 questions · 16 minutes)

Simulators and playgrounds included

Run a payment yourself instead of just reading about it. These interactive simulators cover the same material as the chapters above.

• Hub Architecture Simulator
• API Playground
• State Machine Simulator

Hands-on labs included

Real work products: write the document, build the artefact, and compare it with the worked example.

• Specify a Payment Initiation API for a Corporate Channel
• Write a UAT Plan for a Payment Hub Go-Live

Practice features included

• Mission Control
• BA Studio

Not included

This bundle does not include the other courses:

• The Integrated Course (85 chapters, 635 lessons)
• Payment Foundations (5 chapters, 37 lessons)
• ISO 20022 and SWIFT Messaging (11 chapters, 87 lessons)
• Global Payment Rails (10 chapters, 77 lessons)
• Cross-Border and Correspondent Banking (7 chapters, 50 lessons)
• Clearing, Settlement and Liquidity (4 chapters, 29 lessons)
• Cards and Domestic Payments (6 chapters, 44 lessons)
• Compliance, Risk, Operations and Reconciliation (8 chapters, 59 lessons)
• BA and PO Professional Practice (5 chapters, 37 lessons)
• Emerging Technologies and the Future (4 chapters, 30 lessons)