Interledger Foundation is rolling out an open payments curriculum with universities across Africa and other regions to train future payments professionals.
The Interledger Foundation (ILF) has teamed up with more than 10 universities to bring an open payments curriculum into classrooms.
The programme spans Africa, North America, Europe, and Australia.
ILF, a nonprofit that advocates for interoperable payments, said it is working with universities to teach “open payments” as part of formal coursework.
Interoperable payments means payment systems that can connect to each other, like email providers that can exchange messages even when they are not the same company.
The curriculum is designed to train future payments leaders on how modern financial rails work, and how to build systems that move money across different networks.
African fintechs often scale into markets where banks, mobile money operators, and payment gateways do not connect smoothly.
That fragmentation increases costs for startups and slows down cross border payments, which are payments that move money between countries.
Putting payments interoperability into university programmes can expand the talent pool for fintech product, compliance, and engineering roles.
It also signals growing interest in open standards, meaning shared technical rules that let different companies build compatible systems.
Over time, that could make it easier for African teams building payment products to hire graduates who already understand how to design for multiple rails from day one.
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