GFTN Expands Digital Solutions Ecosystem with Five Strategic Partners to Drive Technology-Enabled Financial Transformation

Singapore, 12 November 2025 – The Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) today announced their partnership with five new platform partners to strengthen its suite of digital offerings and expand its capability to deliver technology-enabled transformation across global financial ecosystems.

Building on its foundational platforms – APIX for innovation sandboxes, and Gprnt for ESG disclosure – GFTN is broadening its partnerships to include platforms that enhance digital infrastructure, upskilling on emerging technologies, inclusive payment systems, financial inclusion, and policy development.

The newly onboarded partners include:

1. Finternet – A universal digital infrastructure that interconnects financial ecosystems.
2. The Linux Foundation – For open-source technology advancement and upskilling on emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, cloud and FDC3, the key interoperability standard for the financial industry.
3. Mojaloop Foundation – Supporting Mojaloop open-source software that empowers organisations to create inclusive instant payment systems (IIPS) and advance financial inclusion worldwide.
4. RegGenome – for AI-enabled policy analytics to accelerate policy development and increase the efficiency of digital compliance and supervision.
5. Universal Pensions (formerly pinBox) – for PensionTech that helps countries build inclusive digital micro-pension systems for self-employed women and youth.

Leadership quotes:

Sopnendu Mohanty, Group Chief Executive Officer, GFTN:

“This expansion reflects GFTN’s commitment to go beyond traditional advisory, combining strategy, technology, and execution to deliver impact at scale. By leveraging our partners’ technology infrastructures and solution ecosystems, we aim to catalyse financial inclusion, resilience, and sustainability across global markets.”

Siddharth Shetty, Chief Executive Officer of Finternet:

“The strategic partnership between GFTN and Finternet merges global financial expertise with technological innovation, unlocking new pathways for secure, seamless, and inclusive digital asset exchange across borders.”

Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President, General Manager Education of Linux Foundation:

“As open source expands from powering global financial infrastructure to driving innovation across the financial industry, it is essential executives understand its importance. Linux Foundation Education is proud to support GFTN in helping shape the future of digital finance.”

Paula Hunter, Executive Director, Mojaloop:

"By partnering with GFTN, we are aligning ourselves with a like-minded organization focused on making digital financial services accessible to everyone. This collaboration will help strengthen the ecosystem for real-time payments, enabling more countries to drive financial inclusion and creating the conditions for inclusive instant payment systems to thrive. Partnering with GFTN is a natural next step in advancing our shared mission.”

Bob Wardrop, Executive Chairman & Founder of RegGenome:

“Combining GFTN’s presence with RegGenome’s best-in-class policy analytics offers public sector bodies the opportunity to respond to a constantly evolving environment with accelerated policy development and more efficient compliance and supervision.”

Parul Seth Khanna, Co-Founder and Director of Universal Pensions:

We’re honoured to join the GFTN’s global platform ecosystem. GFTN’s ability to
convene governments, financial institutions, and technology innovators around shared digital infrastructure and inclusion creates a unique opportunity to accelerate real impact. This partnership strengthens our mission to help countries build inclusive and affordable digital pension systems for self-employed women and youth — transforming the looming old-age poverty crisis into long-term financial resilience and domestic capital formation.”

Please refer to the Annex for more information on each of the Platform Partners.

About the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) 

The Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) is a Singapore-headquartered not-for-profit organisation established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). With offices in Singapore, Japan, Germany, GFTN’s mission is to bridge policy, capital, and technology to build financial systems that are resilient, efficient, and inclusive. GFTN operates via its commercial subsidiaries, GFTN Services and GFTN Capital. GFTN Services, through GFTN Connect, hosts global forums across five continents that bring together market makers and policymakers from over 130 countries, and GFTN Solutions offers comprehensive advisory, technology solutions, and capacity building to governments and the private sector. GFTN Capital will be a venture capital firm investing in growth-stage FinTechs globally. For more information, please visit www.gftn.co

For media enquiries, please contact: 

Preeti Dawra 
Chief Communications Officer 
Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)
preeti.dawra@gftn.com

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ANNEX – More information on Platform Partners

The Finternet is a universal digital infrastructure that interconnects financial ecosystems — empowering 8+ billion individuals and 300+ million businesses by placing them at the center of their financial lives.

Linux Foundation Education is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to build skilled, adaptable, and future-ready technology teams grounded in open source innovation. As a nonprofit, the foundation delivers vendor-neutral, command line-focused training, and skills certification spanning Linux, cloud native, cybersecurity, AI, networking, and emerging technologies. 

The Mojaloop open source platform allows host countries to build and maintain an interoperable inclusive instant payment system (IIPS) that connects diverse financial service providers, bringing affordable domestic and cross-border payments to their citizens and enabling digital sovereignty. 

RegGenome is a regulatory data technology company and a leader in computational regulation. Founded at the University of Cambridge, RegGenome helps make complex regulations easier to use and understand. By turning legal and regulatory documents into clear, organised information, RegGenome enables regulators and public authorities to compare rules across countries, assess gaps against international standards, and support more efficient policy development and supervision.

Universal Pensions (formerly pinBox) is reimagining pension inclusion for the two billion informal workers worldwide who risk retiring into poverty. It partners with governments, DFIs, pension funds, insurers, and DFS stakeholders to design and build national micro-pension marketplaces that give informal workers easy access to affordable, secure retirement and protection solutions. Its pensionTech platform uses APIs to integrate national digital ID, payment, and financial ecosystems — enabling countries to “switch on” inclusive, low-cost pension systems within a few months. 

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