eLearning Courses
eLearning for Continuing Professional Development
Education is at the heart of the MRC’s mission to make eCommerce better for everyone. One of the goals of the Merchant Risk Council is to serve as an educational resource for payments and fraud prevention professionals of all levels. MRC’s eLearning courses help make that possible on a global scale.
The wide selection of accredited courses allows professionals to learn at their convenience, receive certificates and earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits upon course completion. CPE credits may be applied to a variety of professional certifications, including Certified Payments and Fraud Prevention Professional (CPFPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and others.
MRC Education eLearning is ideal for:
- Professionals who wish to revisit the fundamentals of payments and fraud prevention
- Individuals looking to enhance their professional credentials
- Managers looking for industry-specific training materials
- Anyone interested in exploring a career in this dynamic industry
Gain a solid foundation in payments, from ecosystem fundamentals and transaction flows to security, compliance, and emerging trends. Explore payment methods, key stakeholders, and evolving innovations shaping the industry.
Members: $0 USD
Non-Members: $450 USD
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Gain a foundational understanding of online fraud, attack types, and fraudster tactics. Explore social engineering, marketplace manipulation, and analyst strategies to detect, prevent, and respond effectively to emerging fraud threats.
Members: $0 USD
Non-Members: $450 USD
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Learn how to apply CE 3.0 criteria to first-party misuse cases. Understand historical footprint requirements, merchant matching, and dispute flows to strengthen chargeback defenses and collaboration across stakeholders.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn how to identify, prevent, and respond to account takeover attacks. Explore attacker methods, detection strategies, behavioral data analysis, and techniques to strengthen defenses against evolving ATO threats.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Gain practical expertise in transaction optimization through tools like account updater, retry logic, and tokenization. Explore data use, routing strategies, and real-world examples to improve authorization rates and performance.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $300 USD
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Explore how artificial intelligence transforms both fraud detection and attack methods. Identify AI-driven threats, including deepfakes and synthetic identities, and develop adaptive strategies to prevent evolving, AI-enabled fraud.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn to identify, manage, and prevent malicious bot activity in digital commerce. Differentiate good bots from harmful ones, monitor key performance indicators, and apply advanced solutions to protect your platform.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Gain a practical understanding of BNPL models, approval processes, and technology. Explore benefits, risks, and chargeback dynamics while applying best practices to enhance checkout experiences and reduce merchant exposure.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn the fundamentals of chargebacks and the dispute process. Understand reason codes, stakeholder roles, and prevention strategies to minimize losses and strengthen your organization’s approach to chargeback management.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore key metrics and lifecycle stages of chargebacks. Apply data-driven prevention and management strategies, improve dispute outcomes, and align with evolving compliance standards and industry frameworks.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Gain a foundational understanding of cryptocurrencies, their payment applications, and key transaction models. Explore merchant benefits, associated risks, and secure acceptance practices across evolving digital currency ecosystems.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn how EMV 3DS enhances payment security through frictionless, risk-based authentication. Explore device data collection, regulatory mandates, and the evolution of authentication methods across global eCommerce.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Discover how enhanced BIN data supports segmentation, analytics, and routing. Learn to apply BIN insights to improve loyalty, marketing, approvals, and overall transaction performance in payments.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Understand first-party misuse, its dispute implications, and evidence requirements. Explore motivations, fraud-coded chargebacks, and prevention strategies for merchants, issuers, and card networks.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore how fraudsters exploit the digital customer journey through ads, apps, and websites. Identify data theft, attack stages, and best practices to detect and prevent fraud effectively
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn essential fraud KPIs, including chargeback and false positive rates. Apply data-driven strategies and case studies to reduce fraud, manage performance, and strengthen fraud measurement across eCommerce.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Understand how generative AI enables identity fraud through impersonation and synthetic schemes. Explore detection methods, compliance challenges, and layered defense strategies to mitigate cross-border AI-driven risks.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore how geolocation supports fraud detection and authentication. Review compliance considerations, evasion tactics, and best practices for integrating secure location data into fraud prevention systems.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $300 USD
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Gain a comprehensive overview of payments orchestration and its role in streamlining commerce. Learn key components, merchant benefits, and provider selection considerations for efficiency and scalability.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore how machine learning transforms fraud prevention. Understand model training, labeling, and performance evaluation while applying real-world techniques to enhance decision accuracy and adaptive detection.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $300 USD
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Learn how mobile data strengthens fraud prevention. Explore data types, compliance requirements, and strategies to effectively leverage mobile insights across the fraud detection ecosystem.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Gain insight into open banking frameworks and their impact on global payments. Explore payment flows, security considerations, and benefits for merchants, consumers, and financial institutions.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Discover how Pay by Bank streamlines payments for merchants and consumers. Learn architecture, integration strategies, and emerging trends shaping adoption, compliance, and customer experience.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Master essential KPIs for payments performance. Learn to analyze transactional and financial data, apply optimization strategies, and monitor trends such as open banking and real-time payments.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore key payment security standards, technologies, and regulations protecting eCommerce. Understand compliance requirements, EMV processes, tokenization, and best practices for safeguarding customer data.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Learn to enhance payments through smart routing and vaulting. Explore orchestration features, vendor selection, and compliance strategies to improve approvals, reduce costs, and strengthen security.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $300 USD
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Master payments orchestration from foundational concepts to advanced optimization. Learn routing, vaulting, and transaction strategies while earning CPE credits toward professional certification.
Members: $300 USD
Non-Members: $600 USD
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Learn proactive strategies to prevent and manage chargebacks. Understand dispute evidence, risk factors, and best practices for reducing losses and improving merchant dispute outcomes.
Members: $150 USD
Non-Members: $300 USD
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Gain an overview of product management fundamentals, from ideation to launch. Learn core processes, collaboration frameworks, and optimization techniques to drive product success and efficiency.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Understand refund fraud schemes, bad actor tactics, and data-driven prevention. Learn how to strengthen policies, detection tools, and training programs to reduce losses and protect operations.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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Explore how tokenization secures transactions and safeguards sensitive data. Understand token types, merchant benefits, and best practices for evaluating providers and implementing tokenization solutions.
Members: $75 USD
Non-Members: $150 USD
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The wide selection of accredited courses allows professionals to learn at their convenience, receive certificates and earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits upon course completion. CPE credits may be applied to a variety of professional certifications, including Certified Payments and Fraud Prevention Professional (CPFPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and others.
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