Learning path

Enterprise and banking integration

Understand how enterprise systems connect and why banking integration requires additional controls.

1
NET-001 Networks · Transfer

FTP vs SFTP: why plain FTP has no place in modern banking

Both move files. Only one encrypts what travels —credentials included—; and SFTP is not "secure FTP".

2
INT-002 Integration · B2B

EDI: how companies exchange documents without humans

The standard that moves orders and invoices from one ERP to another with no one typing. Older than APIs, and still moving global trade.

3
INT-001 Integration · Messaging

MQ vs Kafka: queues and streams, and when to use each

Queues that distribute work and logs that retain events. Why IBM MQ and Kafka don't compete: they solve different problems.

4
FIN-001 Banking · Payments

SWIFT: how an international transfer actually travels

SWIFT doesn't move money: it moves the instruction. How correspondent banking does the rest, and why it's slow and costly.

5
FIN-002 Banking · Standards

ISO 20022: the world's new financial language

The standard replacing SWIFT's MT messages: rich, structured data for payments. The global migration happening right now.