Start Your Career in Payments & Fintech — Free Webinar

Curious about breaking into one of the fastest-growing areas of financial technology? In this practical, you’ll get a clear picture of what to expect and an actionable roadmap for starting (or pivoting) your career in payments and fintech. It’s free to attend.

## Who this is for
Students, recent grads, career switchers, and early-career professionals who want a guided path into payments, from product and risk to operations and engineering.

## What we’ll cover

• Why start a career in payments
  Market size, growth, stability vs. innovation, and why these roles stay in demand.
• Career paths
  Product, risk & fraud, compliance, operations, data/analytics, engineering, sales/partnerships, customer success – what each role does and typical progression.
• Required education
  Degrees and certificates that help (and which you can skip), plus industry credentials that matter.
• Knowledge you need
  Core concepts: authorization flows, chargebacks, interchange & fees, KYC/KYB, fraud basics, scheme rules, PSPs vs. gateways, settlement & reconciliation.
• Where to get experience
  Projects, open-source tools, sandbox environments, and how to showcase portfolio work and metrics.

## Format

• 45 minutes of content + 15 minutes live Q&A
• Recording and slides sent to all registrants
• Free to attend

## Host

• Nikita Skitev, Payments Expert, author and host of Payments.FM