Prove it to yourself.
Completion is not mastery. Each checkpoint mixes question styles — ordering, matching, diagnosis, field reading — and explains every answer, right or wrong.
THE CAPSTONE — ONE PAYMENT, TWELVE DECISIONS
The delayed supplier payment: read a fictional instruction, map the parties, trace the postings, spot the screening hold, choose the action, and defend it with evidence. Objective stages are scored; the written stages are reflective.
WORK THE CASE- 015 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Payments basics checkpointCheck your grasp of what a payment actually is, who the parties are, how the lifecycle runs, and how charges are shared. Covers the foundations topics up to charges and FX.PAYMENTS FOUNDATIONS
- 025 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Clearing and settlement checkpointTest whether you can keep clearing and settlement apart, compare RTGS with deferred net settlement, and reason about nostro accounts and intraday liquidity.PAYMENTS FOUNDATIONS
- 035 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%SWIFT MT structure checkpointCheck that you can read an MT message: what a BIC identifies, how the message blocks are organized, and what the workhorse fields and message types actually carry.SWIFT & MT
- 045 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Serial and cover routing checkpointCan you tell the serial method from the cover method, explain why MT202 COV exists, and handle a cover that does not match its announcement?SWIFT & MT
- 054 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%ISO 20022 model checkpointCheck your understanding of what ISO 20022 actually is — a shared business model, not just an XML format — and whether you can read a message name and a settlement amount.ISO 20022 & CBPR+
- 065 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%pain, pacs, and camt checkpointMatch the three big message families to their jobs and their senders: customer initiation (pain), interbank clearing and settlement (pacs), and cash management and investigations (camt).ISO 20022 & CBPR+
- 075 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%MT–MX translation checkpointCross-border ISO 20022 under CBPR+, the MT-to-MX mapping, truncation risk, and what to do when a payment is held mid-chain.ISO 20022 & CBPR+
- 084 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%ISO 20022 migration checkpointCheck that you can place the migration milestones on the calendar — coexistence, the US high-value cut-overs, the end of cross-border MT, and the structured-address mandate — and reason about which rail a deadline applies to.ISO 20022 & CBPR+
- 093 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Payment type and codes checkpointCheck that you can tell service level, category purpose, and purpose apart, and read the common 4-letter code values a payment carries.ISO 20022 & CBPR+
- 105 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%SCT lifecycle checkpointCheck that you can follow a SEPA Credit Transfer end to end: what SEPA is, how the four-corner model works, how the message chain runs from pain.001 to the beneficiary credit, and what changes when the payment is instant.SEPA & INSTANT PAYMENTS
- 115 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%SEPA exceptions checkpointRejects, returns, and recalls: can you tell them apart, pick the right one for a live scenario, read a return message, and explain what Verification of Payee does and does not do?SEPA & INSTANT PAYMENTS
- 124 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%SDD checkpointMandates, pulled collections, and the refund rights that keep direct-debit money provisional — can you tell Core from B2B and a refund from a return?SEPA & INSTANT PAYMENTS
- 136 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Payment operations checkpointThe daily craft of payment operations: straight-through processing and repair, what a payment hub actually does, reading a nostro statement, handling a missed cut-off, working reconciliation breaks, and the controls that stop beneficiary fraud.OPERATIONS & ARCHITECTURE
- 145 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Sanctions foundations checkpointCheck your grasp of what sanctions are, who imposes them, what an asset freeze actually requires, and how sanctions screening differs from AML monitoring. Covers the screening foundations topics plus list delivery basics.SANCTIONS FOUNDATIONS
- 155 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Name matching checkpointCheck that you can read a sanctions list entry, explain why screening engines match name variants, use secondary identifiers to resolve hits, and tell customer screening apart from transaction screening.LIST DATA & IDENTIFIERS
- 164 QUESTIONS · PASS 80%Alert investigation checkpointWork a synthetic screening alert end to end: triage it with secondary identifiers, understand what false positives mean, record a defensible disposition, and apply the ownership principle to entities that appear on no list by name.SCREENING EXECUTION