Benefits

Experience an API connection

Finastra’s Financial Messaging API provides a unified interface for real-time access to financial messaging services and market infrastructures.

Scalable and reliable

Scales for growth without compromising on reliability of performance --particularly for institutions handling high-volume flows.

Reduced complexity

Eliminates the complexity and cost of multiple legacy integrations – especially for those organizations with an on-premise footprint or outdated components.

Cost effective

Alleviates expensive compliance and infrastructure costs, lowering total cost of ownership.

Speed to market

Faster access to Swift and other market infrastructures than building in house, all while elevating the customer experience.

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Highlights

Accelerate your organization's API journey

For institutions directly connected to Swift, the Financial Messaging API can reduce your on-premise footprint and minimize reliance on legacy components.

Achieved benefits

  • Built for high-volume throughput and 24/7 operations with low latency
  • Speed to market with faster onboarding
  • Lower total cost of ownership, with reduced compliance and infrastructure costs
  • Scales for volume growth without compromising on reliability or performance

Innovating finance together

A senior developer guiding a neophyte programmer on how to build financial software
A senior developer guiding a neophyte programmer on how to build financial software
A senior developer guiding a neophyte programmer on how to build financial software
A senior developer guiding a neophyte programmer on how to build financial software
A senior developer guiding a neophyte programmer on how to build financial software

API connection

Real-time access to financial messaging services and connectivity to multiple market infrastructures and rails – via an API connection.

Scalable connectivity model

Benefit from a scalable, multi-tenant platform built to support high-volume straight-through processing and 24/7 operations.

Developer-friendly tools

Enable faster onboarding and development with API documentation, a staging environment and tutorials designed to support a developer-focused experience.

Transparent, monitored service

Fully managed service with end-to-end traceability of message processing.

Compliance and security

Robust compliance and security that meets Swift's Customer Security Program (CSP) requirements and reduces the burden on internal resources.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Financial Messaging API FAQs

FM API is Finastra’s new API, offers scalable, real-time access to financial messaging and connectivity to both Swift and non-Swift (future availability) market infrastructures. It's designed to support institutions on their modernization journey.

Currently, the offering is suitable for banks and non-bank financial institutions and is available globally.

Yes! In fact, the solution was built with the developer in mind. We've introduced tools that enables faster onboarding and development with API documentation, a staging environment and tutorials designed to support a developer-focused experience.

FM API complements the existing FM connectivity models and supports modernization by exposing backend services as APIs. 

Yes, FM API meets Swift's CSP requirements with the added benefit of reduced burden on your internal resources.

While the platform initially supports Swift connectivity, it is designed for future extensibility to other market infrastructures. It will offer future value-added services as well, such as enhanced tracking and other Swift messaging types.

Are you ready to advance your API journey?

Let Finastra provide your organization with real-time access to financial messaging services with an API connection to multiple market infrastructures and rails.