Payments for Beginners: How Cards, Schemes, Switches, Fraud, APIs, Real-Time Payments Actually Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798275565461)

⭐ PAYMENTS FOR BEGINNERS ⭐
How Cards, Schemes, Switches, Fraud, APIs & Real-Time Payments Actually Work

by Patrick Sharpe

Have you ever tapped your card, paid online, used an ATM, or sent money instantly - and wondered what REALLY happens behind the scenes? Why some payments fly through in seconds while others fail? Why card networks exist? How banks talk to each other? What a payment switch actually does? Or why the world still runs on a 40-year-old standard called ISO 8583?

The truth: Payments is one of the most misunderstood industries in the world.
And until now, beginners had no clear guide to learn it.

This book changes everything.

Author: Patrick Sharpe
ISBN-13: 9798275565461
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2025
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d