The payments arena in itself
has reached a high level of maturity, payments becoming a commodity
in the financial industry; on these premises operational software
should no longer be a differentiator.
Allevo has come up with the idea to
develop an open source application for financial transactions
processing and, simultaneously, to create a community around it.
The application code name is FinTP and it is far from being just an
idea anymore, it has grown into a thoroughly documented
project.
Allevo is strongly committed
to publish, under free-open licensing terms, its own financial
transactions processing engine - which capitalizes on a seven years
practice proven commercially available application. In our view, an
open source application represents in fact the acceptance of the
commoditization of the payments processing
arena.
FinTP creates a widespread
financial transactions processing platform, a cheap alternative (to
the current proprietary payment systems) for an industry common
solution which will evolve into a new standardization
layer.
FinTP shifts the competitive space and consequently the
innovation drive (from back-office, and mostly financial
institutions and large corporations) to SWIFT traditional and new
business areas (treasury and front-office of the banks, large
financial institutions, corporations and SMEs - including
MFIs).