Core Learning Tracks
Interbank Foundations
Explore the Curriculum
Every track is built around the real SwitchNet and SwitchBank Network lifecycle — from the moment a payment enters the network to the final settlement message. Expand any track to see its modules, level, and the operational outcomes your team will master.
1. Payment Network Fundamentals
▼Modules
- The SwitchNet interbank clearing & settlement model
- Actors and roles: central bank, member banks, payment providers
- Message journeys: origination, routing, acknowledgement
- Key reference data: BICs, branch codes, currencies, cut-offs
- Reading a payment life-cycle report and a settlement statement
What graduates can do
- Explain the full interbank journey in plain language
- Map an incoming message to its processing stage
- Identify the correct team and process for every event type
- Read and interpret the network's operational dashboards
2. Controls, Risk & Compliance
▼Modules
- Control framework for interbank messaging
- Fraud, AML and sanctions screening along the payment path
- Duplicate detection: UETR, sequence, amount + beneficiary logic
- KYC and participant onboarding requirements
- Incident, breach and regulatory reporting duties
What graduates can do
- Run a control walkthrough on a live message stream
- Design a mitigant for a detected control exception
- Evidence controls clearly for internal audit
- Apply escalation thresholds with the right urgency
3. Treasury & Liquidity Operations
▼Modules
- Nostro/vostro relationships and account balances
- Intraday liquidity and cut-off management
- Reconciliation: nostro statements vs internal ledgers
- Queue management, recycling and partial settlements
- Settlement risk: Herstatt and how the network mitigates it
What graduates can do
- Reconcile a nostro statement to finality
- Resolve a failing queue before cut-off
- Forecast liquidity needs from a payment profile
- Produce accurate settlement and regulatory reports
4. Interbank Messaging & Settlement
▼Modules
- ISO 20022 message standards and SwitchNet business flows
- Customer and treasury payment flows on the SwitchNet network
- Message-level anatomy: parties, identifiers, amounts, charges
- Exception handling: returns, rejects, recalls, investigations
- Settlement finality and the SwitchNet guaranteed flows
What graduates can do
- Trace an ISO 20022 message from creation to settlement finality
- Diagnose and close an exception within SLA
- Interpret message-level errors and repair a failing instruction
- Support technical onboarding and UAT of new participants
Interbank Messaging & Settlement
Learning in the transaction lifecycle
Choose Your Learning Path
Three progressive tracks match the level your institution needs. Every path ends with supervised labs and an institution-ready assessment, so the learning lands in production, not in a PDF.
Path 1 · Foundation
Operate with Network Fluency
For new joiners, support staff and relationship teams who need to speak the language of interbank payments confidently.
2–3 weeks part-time
Payment Network Fundamentals
SwitchNet Foundation Badge
- Understand the interbank clearing and settlement model end to end
- Read messages, dashboards and settlement statements
- Know exactly who does what across the payment lifecycle
Path 2 · Practitioner
Run Payments with Control
For operations, treasury and reconciliation teams who execute and investigate every day.
5–6 weeks part-time
Controls, Risk & Compliance + Treasury & Liquidity Operations
SwitchNet Practitioner Certificate
- Apply control frameworks to live message streams
- Resolve exceptions, fails and investigations inside SLA
- Reconcile liquidity and reporting to finality
Path 3 · Specialist
Master Messaging and Settlement
For payments specialists, message analysts and technology leads who own the platform.
8 weeks incl. capstone
Interbank Messaging & Settlement + capstone lab
SwitchNet Specialist Certification
- Trace and repair ISO 20022 messages across the SwitchNet platform
- Design exception and investigation workflows
- Support participant onboarding, UAT and go-live
Where should your team start?
Answer five quick questions and get an instant starting-level recommendation.
1. What does a bank’s institution identifier identify on the SwitchNet network?
2. Which message standard governs customer payment flows on the SwitchNet network?
3. Where would you monitor intraday liquidity exposure?
4. What is the first action on a payment stuck in the exception queue?
5. Which element helps detect a duplicate payment?
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Your team’s learning priorities
Capability Across the Network
SWITCHNet Academy builds the operational judgment that keeps interbank payment services secure, resilient, and compliant — for banks, payment teams, and regulators across the SwitchBank Network.
From Message Creation to Settlement Finality
Operational Depth, Built Across the Network
From Enrollment to Credential
A structured journey for every learner, with checkpoint assessments at each stage so progress is verified — not assumed.
Enroll your team, confirm the starting path and set cohort dates.
Instructor-led modules with SwitchNet-lab scenarios on real message flows.
Operational drills: exceptions, investigations, queues, cut-offs and reporting.
Final institution-ready assessment, credential issued, CPD hours recorded.
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