Finastra
Introduction of the Portal
Finastra’s FusionCreator Developer Portal is part of the FusionFabric.cloud platform, and is leading the way in opening up financial services and lowering the barrier of entry for aspiring fintechs and developers to commercialize their solutions at scale. Finastra is opening up its core banking systems (used by 8,600 banks and financial institutions around the world) via an extensive range of building blocks and APIs, to drive innovation and collaboration. A seamless user experience and a rich set of reusable developer and design assets speed the process from idea to production, allowing faster implementation and monetization of new ideas.
The FusionCreator Developer Portal has evolved significantly since its May 2019 launch, now offering over 172 APIs, 13 SPIs, 17 Datasets and 36 solution use cases. These cover all of Finastra’s lines of business across retail and corporate banking, lending, payments, treasury and capital markets with expanded capabilities to enable financial institutions to share bulk data with fintechs in a trusted manner. Most recently, developers have been actively creating new applications in the areas of risk management, AI-based fraud prevention, chatbots, portfolio analysis, payments and many more.
Why nominated
Finastra believes that a Developer Portal is more than just a catalog of APIs. It’s an essential enabler to create infinite possibilities and should serve as a comprehensive platform where everyone can learn, be inspired and co-create the future of finance. Finastra’s FusionCreator Developer Portal offers users the power to access complex and specific financial functionalities to create applications, combined with a great developer experience. Examples include a Trading Book Market and Credit Risk Solution by Vector Risk, or comprehensive chatbot functionalities with One by Active.AI.
Best API reference documentation and support:
- It is easy for developers to get started with the FusionCreator Developer Portal and build an application by following our step-by-step tutorials: starting with the exploration of building blocks and continuing with the application registration via the Application Wizard, the process is entirely documented both by video tutorials and screenshots.
- Finastra believes in creating an open and global community of developers across financial services. At the end of last year Finastra ran one of the largest fintech hackathons ever with over 4,500 registrants from 100+ countries. Hack to the Future 2020 invited fintechs, banks, startups and students to create the future of finance utilizing APIs from the FusionFabric.cloud platform.
- Open source sample apps and a Design System with the ability to rebrand the catalog of components helps developers build apps faster and in a consistent way.
Best findability of products in a DevPortal:
- Discoverability is intuitive, offering the ability to filter building blocks by solution use cases or individually by line of business. Users can easily access them through the application wizard.
- Powerful global search supports findability and allows developers to perform search queries within the portal. It is enhanced by a predictive algorithm that will correct mistyped words whilst also offering search suggestions, recent search history and useful links to quickly navigate to different topics.
- Developers can easily share a filtered view of the DevPortal Catalog via a shareable link. The link will contain the current bookmarked APIs, SPIs and Datasets and the filters applied to the catalog. By accessing the link, only the products that meet the filter criteria are discoverable.
Best developer dashboard:
- Ongoing management and statuses are provided through a comprehensive dashboard supporting each step of the application lifecycle. Authenticated developers have access to the use case building blocks to build their application and test directly in their sandbox.
- Developers can promote their next big app idea in the FusionStore through a guided step-by-step Application Wizard. This provides best practices and content parameters, making it extremely easy and transparent for developers and fintechs to follow, with the ability to add key information such as value propositions and case studies, and configure trials and demos.
- Additionally, users are able to receive status notifications on the performance of items that need attention.
Best design:
- The fresh look and intuitive navigation of the FusionCreator Developer Portal is designed to provide a guided learning path for both technical and non-technical users with documentation, tools, comprehensive video tutorials and ongoing support. Users can also enable ‘dark mode’ - better suited for late working hours or just as a personal preference.
- A Design System is available as part of the suite to developers and designers to accelerate new application creation. Through a set of open source designs, dev tools and templates it has proven to be much faster to kick-start a new application by customizing existing financial app designs and code. Fintechs and banks can deliver stronger experiences to customers more rapidly by reusing and combining existing templates, components, and using the Developer Portal building blocks. The live theme editor allows app creators and designers to quickly rebrand by changing color variables, logo, etc.
