CurriculumFintech & Digital Money
Fintech & Digital Money
Payment apps, digital wallets, and staying safe when money moves through a screen.
- What Is Fintech? The everyday technology that's quietly replaced how most people interact with money. 📄 Read-aloud
- Digital Wallets and Payment Apps How a digital wallet actually works, and where your money really sits when you use one. 📄 Read-aloud
- Peer-to-Peer Payments: Venmo, Zelle and Friends How instant person-to-person payment apps work, and why they're much harder to reverse than a bank transfer. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fintech & Digital Money: Checkpoint 1 Covers what fintech is, digital wallets, and peer-to-peer payment apps. 5 questions
- Contactless Payments and Card Security How tap-to-pay technology actually protects you, and the habits that keep it that way. 📄 Read-aloud
- Buy Now, Pay Later: Convenience or Trap? How installment-payment services actually work, and the ways they can quietly resemble the debt problems covered earlier in this curriculum. 📄 Read-aloud
- Cryptocurrency Basics A plain, non-hype explanation of what cryptocurrency actually is and the real risks involved. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fintech & Digital Money: Checkpoint 2 Covers contactless payments, buy now pay later, and cryptocurrency basics. 5 questions
- Robo-Advisors: Investing on Autopilot How automated investing platforms work, what they're good at, and their real limits. 📄 Read-aloud
- Protecting Yourself from Digital Fraud The most common digital fraud patterns targeting everyday users, and concrete ways to guard against them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Two-Factor Authentication and Account Security Why a password alone isn't enough anymore, and how a second layer of verification actually protects you. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fintech & Digital Money: Checkpoint 3 Covers robo-advisors, digital fraud protection, and two-factor authentication. 5 questions
- The Future of Cashless Societies What it would actually mean for cash to disappear, and who benefits and who's left out. 📄 Read-aloud