Global Payments: And the Fintech Innovations Changing the Industry

Carol does a great job yet again with this short read on the recent innovations in the world of payment. It covers a wide range of areas, but I would have loved to see more detailed examples of each one....if not in the main section, at least in the appendix

The book does a good job in covering all existing payment methods but not much on fintech innovations.The book is good for anyone working in the payment fintech field.

I LOVE Carol Benson’s Payments books (I own all of them)!! They provide a wonderful foundational knowledge on payments. She has an incredible knowledge about the space and write in such an interesting and easy way for readers to understand the concepts. Hope she will continue to publish these amazing books!!

Not a good book. The descriptions and explanations are too vague and abstract to provide meaningful explanations of the concepts being described. Not enough concrete examples. If I hadn’t already understood card tokenization, for example, I wouldn’t have figured it out from the description in this book.Not many books I’d say this about, but this book needs to be longer with a lot more detail. It covers the right topics; if a second edition fleshes out the concepts and examples in more detail it could be excellent.

The read draws a clearer view on how on large scale the payments are carried out across the world. What are the latest innovations in the industry and how the things may be advancing in the future. In a nutshell, I recommend this read for a freshmen in the industry who would like to have a broader picture before delving into details. Although everything the book speaks about is hardly comprehendible plainly in theory. As the book stipulates, many find it challenging to understand the big picture how all the moving parts fit together and in particular how the confusing, rapidly changing (and risky) cross-border payments ecosystem functions. Thus, counting only on the book to help you to grasp all concepts is futile, one needs to be using and seeing things in application in order to fathom them on a decent level.

Nothing like the "payment systems in the us" book. There's barely any detail given or diagrams present.Companies are highlighted with 2/3 sentences. Felt like a rough draft and not a book.