APIX is officially launched by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore at the Singapore FinTech Festival on November 14, 2018, in the presence of (From Left) Vivek Pathak, Regional Director - East Asia and Pacific, IFC (World Bank Group), Paul CG Gwee, Secretary-General of ASEAN Bankers Association (ABA) and (Far Right) Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
The Application Programming Interface Exchange(APIX) is a global fintech marketplace and regulatory sandbox.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
APIX is the world’s first cross-border, open architecture API marketplace and sandbox platform for collaboration between FinTechs and financial institutions in which participants can integrate and test solutions with each other via a cloud-based architecture.[1]
It brings together financial industry participants to discover, design and deploy innovative digital solutions within a collaborative ecosystem.[1]
The ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN) was established as a non-profit organization in 2018 by the ASEAN Bankers Association (ABA), International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). AMTD Foundation and Mastercard are AFIN’s Corporate Founding Members.[1]
AFIN was set up with the mission to facilitate innovation and cooperation between financial institutions and FinTechs, in an effort to digitally transform the banking and financial sectors across the ASEAN region and beyond to ultimately drive financial inclusion. To support this mission, AFIN has launched the API Exchange (APIX).[1]
Launch
APIX was officially launched by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore at the Singapore FinTech Festival in 2018.[10][11][12]
The target market for APIX is the estimated two billion people who are without bank accounts around the world.[10][11][12]
APIX has been designed to help banking institutions in reaching out to more people without bank accounts across 23 nations, including 10 ASEAN members as well as major markets like India and nations like Fiji.[10][11][12]
APIX is expected to cater the needs of smaller banks and people living in Tier 3 and 4 cities and remote regions.[10][11][12]