Empowering every Individual and Business!

The Finternet aims to enable multiple ecosystems to interconnect, much like the internet, thus empowering 8+ billion individuals and 300+ million businesses by placing them at the center of their financial lives.

What is Finternet?

In today’s world, the transactability of assets is siloed across multiple purpose-specific infrastructures. The Finternet aims to architect universal infrastructure that’s interoperable unifies multiple assets, and supports multiple use cases to usher in low-cost, high-volume, and high-trust transactions!

A vision of the future financial system
Finternet: the financial system for the future
Fireside chat - Finternet the financial system for the future

3 U’s of the Finternet

You, the User

Individuals and businesses, retail and wholesale

Unified

Bringing together diverse assets, sectors, and countries across time

Universal

Open to all, available to everyone

Design Principles of the Finternet

Designing for scale is different from scaling what works. At the population scale, the following design principles enable us to architect systems adaptable to technological and market evolution. 

Users at the Centre

Scalability

Interoperability

Division of Labour and Competition

Evolvability

Inclusiveness and Accessibility

Modularity

Security and Privacy by Design

The Finternet will be built on Open Infrastructure & Regulated Flows.

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Finternet in the News

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The Rise of the Finternet

Financial services must catch up with the advances made in communications since the advent of the internet and smartphones. That will require taking bold action to build a seamless, interconnected network that would give all individuals and businesses full control over their financial lives.

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The rise of Finternet: an interconnected network of financial ecosystems

A new model proposed by Nandan Nilekani and Agustín Carstens envisages multiple financial ecosystems interconnected with each other. Multiple financial ecosystems interconnected with each other is called Finternet

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The ‘Finternet’ Will Be Here Soon — Are You Ready?

Finance in the 21st century is still too costly, and clubby. Besides, when compared with the instantaneous gratification in other aspects of our digital lives, money appears to move too slowly online.

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Making of universal digital financial system

By using tokens and unified programmable ledgers, FINTERNET seeks to connect multiple ecosystems to deliver quality financial services faster, cheaper and securely

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Carstens advances vision for future tokenised financial system

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) general manager Agustín Carstens this week advanced a vision of a future financial system using unified ledgers to exchange tokenised assets.

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Did you know that Agustin Carstens & @NandanNilekani are collaborating to build the 'FINTERNET'?

The vision is to create a financial system where individuals can send money to anyone, anywhere & anytime

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Contributors to finternet sandbox

We are currently prototyping various technical and policy solutions inspired by the Finternet whitepapers.

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Finternet Labs

Finternet Labs are an open-source community of designers, developers, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, policymakers, and stakeholders from public authorities distributed across the world who are actively contributing to the realization of the Finternet!

Explore our sandbox on GitHub and join our efforts by signing up!

Collaborations and Partnerships

Please reach out if you want to organize workshops, use cases, learning sessions, pilots, or seed Finternet Labs in your country or region! Together, we can build infrastructure that fulfills the needs of users everywhere.