Payment and Fintech

Payment flows, ledgers, fintech infrastructure, and the correctness, compliance, and reconciliation constraints behind moving money.

Visa Revenue Model

Visa revenue through network fees, transaction processing, and value-added services.

FintechVisa

ACH Payment Processing

ACH payments through batch files, settlement windows, returns, and bank roles.

AchPayments

Visa Card Payment Flow

Visa card payments through authorisation, clearing, and settlement between banks.

Payment ProcessingVisa

How Apple Pay and Google Pay Work

Apple Pay and Google Pay tokenise card details and relay them through card rails.

Mobile PaymentsPayment Systems

Duplicate Payment Prevention

Duplicate payment prevention with idempotency keys, state checks, and safe retries.

IdempotencyPayment Systems

Foreign Exchange Payments

Foreign exchange payments link local collection, currency conversion, and payout.

Foreign ExchangePayments

Payments Ecosystem

Payments ecosystem roles across merchants, processors, networks, and banks.

FintechPayments

Payments System Fundamentals

Payment flows through authorisation, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation.

FintechPayments

Payment System Architecture

Payment system flow through durable events, idempotent execution, ledgers, and settlement.

Payment ProcessingSystems Atlas

Money Movement Systems

Money movement through authorisation, clearing, netting, settlement, and reconciliation.

FintechPayments

Scan-to-Pay Flow

Scan to pay flows through QR payloads, wallet checks, and payment settlement.

Payment SystemsQR Codes

Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in India

UPI payment flow across apps, banks, identity checks, and NPCI switching.

FintechUPI

Payment Reconciliation

Payment reconciliation across ledgers, settlement files, and bank records.

Data ReconciliationPayment Systems

Handling Hotspot Accounts

Hotspot accounts create balance-write contention that payment systems must isolate.

Payment SystemsScalability

4 QR Code Payment Models

Four QR payment flows covering merchant-presented, customer-presented, and account links.

PaymentsQR Codes

SWIFT Payment Messaging System

SWIFT payment messaging for standardised cross-border transfer instructions.

FinancePayments

Web3

Web3 shifts identity, assets, and rules from platforms to shared protocols.

DecentralizationWeb3

Stop-Loss Orders

Stop-loss orders trigger an exit when price crosses a set threshold.

Risk ManagementTrading

Banking Wallets vs. Blockchain Wallets

Bank and blockchain wallets compared through custody, ledgers, and settlement.

BlockchainDigital Wallets

E-Commerce Workflow

E-commerce workflow from procurement and inventory to checkout and fulfilment.

E CommerceSupply Chain