# Formance > Open, programmable financial infrastructure. Programmable ledger, payment flows, connectivity, and reconciliation. Formance provides open-source and cloud financial infrastructure for building payment operations, ledgers, and money movement. ## How to read Request any page URL with `Accept: text/markdown` to receive a Markdown version optimized for AI agents. - Site: https://www.formance.com/ - Index: https://www.formance.com/llms.txt - Full content in one file: https://www.formance.com/llms-full.txt ## Product pages - [Flows](https://www.formance.com/platform/flows): Flows - [Security](https://www.formance.com/platform-security): Security - [Connectivity](https://www.formance.com/platform/connectivity): Connectivity - [Ledger](https://www.formance.com/platform/ledger): Ledger - [Reconciliation](https://www.formance.com/platform/reconciliation): Reconciliation - [Contact](https://www.formance.com/contact): Contact - [Privacy Policy](https://www.formance.com/privacy-policy): Privacy Policy - [Terms of Service](https://www.formance.com/terms-of-service): Terms of Service - [About](https://www.formance.com/about): About - [Home](https://www.formance.com/): Home - [Demo](https://www.formance.com/demo): Demo - [Pricing](https://www.formance.com/pricing): One annual subscription covers the full platform, deployment support, and expert advisory. 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A Technical Primer](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/what-is-payment-orchestration): Learn how payment orchestration routes transactions across PSPs, where failover breaks, and why reconciliation needs double-entry records. - [What Are Agentic Payments? The Complete Guide](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/what-are-agentic-payments): Agentic payments let AI agents execute transactions under pre-approved mandates. Learn the models, failure points, and required ledger infrastructure. - [Payment reconciliation process: a complete guide](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/payment-reconciliation-process): Learn the payment reconciliation process, common failure modes, and ledger architecture that engineering and finance teams need to automate reliable reconciliation. - [Introducing Formance Studio](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/introducing-formance-studio): Formance Studio turns a plain-English description into a validated ledger schema: accounts, transaction logic, and queries, tested against a live ledger. - [Event sourcing vs event-driven architecture: what's the difference?](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/event-sourcing-vs-event-driven-architecture): Event sourcing stores state as immutable facts. Event-driven architecture routes messages between services. Learn how financial systems need both. - [Autonomous finance: what it means for payment infrastructure](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/autonomous-finance): Learn how autonomous finance payment infrastructure enforces immutable postings, idempotent contracts, and traceable flows of funds. - [Formance vs TigerBeetle](https://www.formance.com/blog/marketplaces/formance-vs-tigerbeetle): Compare Formance and TigerBeetle by stack layer: full-stack operational ledger platform versus high-throughput financial transaction storage engine. - [What is a Ledger Database?](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/what-is-a-ledger-database): Learn what a ledger database is, how it protects balances, and when teams need one for reconciliation and auditability. - [Reconciliation in Finance: From Spreadsheets to Programmable Policies](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/reconciliation-in-finance): How reconciliation in finance moves from spreadsheets to programmable ledger policies for matching, drift detection, and audit readiness. - [Tokenization of Money: A Builder's Reference](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/tokenization-of-money-infrastructure): A technical reference to tokenization of money for builders designing off-chain reconciliation, ledger controls, and compliance-ready stablecoin systems. - [How to ledger stablecoin flows on a regulated core banking system](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/stablecoin-ledger-core-banking-system): Learn how a programmable ledger keeps stablecoin flows reconciled across core banking, reserves, redemptions, and regulatory reporting. - [Non-Custodial vs. Custodial Wallets](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/non-custodial-vs-custodial-wallets): Compare non-custodial and custodial wallets across key control, MPC, regulatory risk under MiCA and GENIUS, reconciliation, and off-chain ledger design. - [Transaction Reconciliation at Scale: An Engineering Guide](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/transaction-reconciliation-at-scale-for-eng): Learn transaction reconciliation architecture for ledger invariants, provider normalization, matching, and exception handling as transaction volume grows. - [Reconciling On-Chain and Off-Chain Transactions at Scale](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/on-chain-off-chain-reconciliation-at-scale): Learn where on-chain/off-chain reconciliation breaks across confirmations, internal transfers, cross-chain drift, and audit-ready controls. - [Cross-border Payments: A Technical Implementation Guide](https://www.formance.com/blog/embedded-finance/cross-border-payments-guide): Design cross-border payments with a core ledger, rail orchestration, FX controls, reconciliation, and compliance checkpoints at every hop - [Three-way Matching for Fintech Engineering Teams](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/three-way-matching-fintech): Learn how fintech engineering teams use three-way matching across ledgers, PSP reports, and bank statements for daily reconciliation. - [What is Bank Reconciliation?](https://www.formance.com/blog/embedded-finance/what-is-bank-reconciliation): Learn how bank reconciliation works from an engineering angle: matching rules, ledger design, exception handling, and automation for payment infrastructure. - [Intercompany Reconciliation Explainer](https://www.formance.com/blog/embedded-finance/intercompany-reconciliation-explainer-fintechs): Learn how multi-entity fintechs can match, eliminate, and automate intercompany entries to prevent phantom profit and close the books cleanly. - [Payment rails explained for fintech engineers](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/payment-rails-explained-for-fintech-engineers): Payment rails explained for fintech engineers: compare bank transfers, cards, wires, RTP, FedNow, digital assets, and stablecoins by speed, cost, risk, and settlement. - [A technical guide on programmable finance](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/programmable-finance-technical-guide): Learn how programmable finance uses ledgers, rules, connectivity, and reconciliation to track and move funds with traceability. - [General Ledger Definition for Software Teams](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/general-ledger-software-teams): Learn what a general ledger is, which components your code must populate correctly, and how clean product ledger design prevents reconciliation failures. - [How to Automate Reconciliation Across Multi-Rail Money Movement](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/automate-reconciliation): Learn how to automate reconciliation across multiple payment rails with normalized data, matching rules, and a ledger that stays accurate at scale. - [An Architectural Primer on Embedded Finance ](https://www.formance.com/blog/embedded-finance/embedded-finance-architecture-primer): Learn embedded finance architecture patterns for ledgers, provider integrations, orchestration, and reconciliation before products scale. - [An Engineering Buying Framework for a Payment Processor](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/an-engineering-buying-framework-for-a-payment-processor): An engineering framework for evaluating payment processors on idempotency, failover, ledger, reconciliation, and compliance. - [What Engineers Need to Know About Real-Time Payments and FedNow](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/what-engineers-need-to-know-about-real-time-payments-and-fednow): FedNow makes settlement instant and irrevocable. Learn how to handle retry logic, ledger design, reconciliation, and fraud controls on real-time rails. - [Double-Entry Accounting for Engineers Building Financial Products](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/double-entry-accounting-for-engineers-building-financial-products): Learn how double-entry accounting prevents balance drift, fee gaps, and reconciliation failures in payment systems—with worked examples and a practical checklist. - [How to Know When You Need Ledger as a Service](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/how-to-know-when-you-need-ledger-as-a-service): Learn what Ledger as a Service is, where it fits in your stack, its capabilities, and when you need one. - [Programmable Wallets: Architecture, Holds, and the Ledger Layer](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/programmable-wallets-architecture-holds-and-the-ledger-layer): Learn how programmable wallet architecture layers, including policy, orchestration, and ledger, keep balance logic consistent as your fintech product scales. - [Why Modern Fintechs Layer a Ledger Under Their Core Banking System](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/why-modern-fintechs-layer-a-ledger-under-their-core-banking-system): Core banking and modern ledgers solve different problems. Learn the architectural split, why fintechs need both, and how to decide what to build or buy. - [Account Reconciliation Patterns for High-Volume Fintech](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/account-reconciliation-patterns-for-high-volume-fintech): Learn how high-volume fintech teams build reconciliation systems that auto-match transactions, detect breaks in minutes, and satisfy regulators without manual work. - [How to Develop a Crypto Payment Gateway for Multi-Rail Payments](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-to-develop-a-crypto-payment-gateway-for-multi-rail-payments): Learn how to architect a multi-rail crypto payment gateway that handles USDC, USDT, fiat settlement, and new rails without breaking existing flows. - [The Different Types of Stablecoins](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/the-different-types-of-stablecoins): Learn how fiat-backed, crypto-backed, commodity-backed, and algorithmic stablecoins work and which peg model fits payment infrastructure. - [Money Movement Architecture for Multi-Rail Fintechs](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/money-movement-architecture-for-multi-rail-fintechs): A practical guide to money movement architecture for fintechs running multiple payment rails. Learn how a ledger-first design absorbs new rails without compounding technical debt. - [Agentic Payments: How AI Agents Move Money](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/how-aI-agents-move-money): AI agents retry at machine speed, spawn sub-agents, and execute across rails. Here's the infrastructure you need to handle it without duplicate charges. - [How to Invest in Stablecoins for Money Movement](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/how-to-invest-in-stablecoins-for-money-movement): Learn how businesses invest in stablecoins for cross-border payments, treasury ops, and money movement with this ledger and compliance guide. - [What Is BaaS? Banking-as-a-Service for Engineering Teams](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/what-is-baas): Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) gives engineering teams access to regulated banking rails via APIs. Learn how the BaaS model works, how it differs from embedded finance/open banking, and what infrastructure you still need to build (ledger, reconciliation, idempotency, state management). - [Stablecoin Payments Architecture for Regulated Fintechs](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/stablecoin-payments-architecture-for-regulated-fintechs): Learn how regulated fintechs should architect stablecoin payments, including on-ramp, off-ramp, and reconciliation infrastructure. - [Ledger Balance Explained for Product and Engineering Teams](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/understanding-ledger-balance-and-why-it-matters-in-fintech): Learn what ledger balance means, how it differs from available and pending balances, and how to design audit-grade ledger architecture for real-time authorization, reconciliation, and disputes. - [What Is a Subledger and When Do You Need One?](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/what-is-a-subledger): A subledger captures transaction-level postings behind your general ledger—enabling per-user balances, dispute resolution, and audit-grade traceability in fintech. - [What Is a Ledger? A Guide for Software Engineers](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/what-is-a-ledger): Learn what a ledger is, how it records money movement, and why double-entry, derived balances, and more matter in payment systems. - [What Is Programmable Money? A Practical Definition for Builders](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/what-is-programmable-money): Learn how programmable money works at the infrastructure layer and what it means for engineers building payment systems with atomic, ledger-enforced logic. - [New Connectivity with Fireblocks](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/fireblocks): Sync Fireblocks vault accounts, balances, and transactions into Formance Ledger to reconcile self-custodied digital assets and fiat in one system. - [New Connectivity with Coinbase Prime](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/coinbase-prime): Sync Coinbase Prime wallets, balances, and transactions into Formance Ledger to reconcile crypto and fiat in one system. - [On-Chain Confirmation Is Not Settlement](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/on-chain-confirmation-is-not-settlement): Stablecoin finality unfolds across blockchain, issuer, and fiat layers, each with its own rules. On-chain confirmation isn’t true settlement, and available balance means something different on every rail. - [New Connectivity with Tink](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/tink): New integration connects to banks across the UK and Europe, syncing transactions for real-time visibility and automated reconciliation. - [New Connectivity with Powens](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/powens): New integration connects to 2,000+ European banks, syncing transactions for real-time visibility and automated reconciliation. - [Transparency Is a Feature](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/why-formance-is-open-source): Why Formance is open source: transparency, auditability, business continuity, and self-hosting that reduce risk in financial infrastructure. - [Build or Buy a Core Ledger](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/build-or-buy-a-core-ledger): Building a ledger looks like an engineering problem. It's also an accounting problem, a compliance problem, and a long-term maintenance commitment. - [The Stablecoin Sandwich](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/the-stablecoin-sandwich): Carlos sent $500 to his mother Rosa in Guadalajara twenty minutes ago. It should be there by now. But his remittance company can’t tell you if it is, because the payment touched four different systems on the way, and none of them talk to each other. - [That Time a $400 Giveaway Became an $8M mistake](https://www.formance.com/blog/industry-analysis/that-time-a-400-giveaway-became-an-8m-mistake): A Bithumb input error created $40B in phantom Bitcoin. What it reveals about internal ledgers—and the risk every centralized exchange shares. - [Why Cross-Team Friction Persists in Financial Systems](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/why-cross-team-friction-persists-in-financial-systems): Cross-team friction in financial systems is more than a communication problem. Learn how explicit money flows, ledger clarity, and auditability reduce friction. - [When the Travel Rule Meets Stablecoins](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/when-the-travel-rule-meets-stablecoins): If you work with cross-border payments, you need to be acquainted with the Travel Rule and prepare for stablecoin compliance. - [The Travel Rule](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/the-travel-rule): Learn what the travel rule requires, when it applies to payouts and transfers, and how strong data architecture helps teams meet global compliance expectations. - [The Fiat-to-Digital Asset Playbook](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/the-fiat-to-digital-asset-playbook): Fiat ramps break when funds split across banking rails and blockchains. Learn how to design a Core Ledger that keeps your off-chain cash and on-chain assets in sync. - [The CeDeFi Ledger Playbook](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/the-cedefi-ledger-playbook): CeDeFi breaks standard ledgers because digital asset balances can change without transactions. Learn how to design a Core Ledger to shadow-ledger on-chain protocols. - [Preparing for MiCA](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/mica-implementation): MiCA’s transition period is entering its final months in many EU countries. Find out what this means for CASPs and stablecoin issuers that aren’t licensed yet. - [How Not to Build a Ledger](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-not-to-build-a-ledger-2): Race conditions and throughput cliffs are the hidden dragons of fintech systems. Learn how to design ledgers that stay both correct and fast. - [Why Formance Became DORA Compliant](https://www.formance.com/blog/company/why-formance-became-dora-compliant): Discover why Formance pursued DORA compliance early, what the process required, and how it strengthened operational resilience and trust for every customer. - [Ensuring Ledger Integrity](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/ensuring-ledger-integrity): Discover the six ledger invariants every NBFI must enforce to stay audit-ready. Ensure balances are reproducible, ownership traceable, and transparent. - [Introducing Assets Coloring](https://www.formance.com/blog/changelog/introducing-assets-coloring): Introducing assets coloring support in Numscript to tackle one of the hardest, fundamental core ledgering problems: Hidden funds lineage. - [Understanding Transaction Finality](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/understanding-transaction-finality): Learn how crypto and instant payments are reshaping how finance defines transaction finality and what “final” means in practice today. - [The Hidden Timeline of a Card Transaction](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/card-timeline-2): Card payments aren’t instant; there can be “gaps”. Bi-temporality should be a feature of your ledger for the sake of clarity, compliance, and control. - [What is Numscript and Why is it Awesome?](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/numscript): Discover Numscript, Formance’s declarative DSL for programmable ledgers—express intent once, execute atomically, and keep transactions auditable and traceable. - [The Color of Money](https://www.formance.com/blog/talks/fintech_devcon-2025-recording): Watch Clément Salaün’s Fintech_Devcon talk on “the color of money,” a ledgering concept that helps fintechs track fund origins, risk, and movement across banks. - [The Hidden Timeline of a Card Transaction](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/card-timeline-1): Card transactions are not instantaneous, but pass through several players in what is called the “Four Corner” model. Here’s why that matters. - [Trust is a Feature, Not a Feeling](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/300-trillion-minting-error): The recent $300 trillion PYUSD minting error shows why stablecoin stability depends on engineered governance: Controls that verify trust at code speed. - [Anticipating the Clarity Act](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/clarity-act): The Clarity Act could reshape digital asset rules in the U.S. Learn what’s proposed, what might happen, and how your organization should prepare now. - [Regulating Digital Resilience in the EU](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/dora-compliance): What DORA compliance means for fintechs, NBFIs and marketplaces as digital resilience requirements and vendor oversight reshape the financial ecosystem. - [Anne-Sybille Pradelles on Scaling Open-Source Financial Infrastructure](https://www.formance.com/blog/talks/podcast-how-they-build): Formance CEO Anne-Sybille Pradelles joins Lago CEO Anh-Tho Chuong on the “How They Build” podcast to discuss scaling open-source fintech infrastructure, breaking into the US market, and turning early customers into growth partners. - [Announcing Formance Ledger V2.3](https://www.formance.com/blog/changelog/ledger-v2.3): Formance Ledger V2.3 introduces a new ways to improve the performance of your installation, as well as a bundle of requested improvements. - [You May Already be an NBFI. Here's Why that Matters.](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/nbfi-alignment): Discover why being an NBFI changes everything, from compliance to product design, and how to align legal, product, and finance teams to meet regulatory demands. - [Breaking Down Stablecoin Regulations Under the GENIUS Act and MiCA](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/stablecoin-regulation): Find out what regulations apply to NBFIs issuing stablecoins under the GENIUS Act in the United States and MiCA in the EU. - [Euro-Ingenuity vs. Dollar-Genius ](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/stablecoins-emoney): Compare EU e‑money and US payment stablecoins (GENIUS Act): how they work, how they’re regulated, and why issuers need an independent ledger for compliance. - [Don Goodman: A Cognitive Theory of Community](https://www.formance.com/blog/talks/devopsdays-ams-2025): Learn how basic neuroscience and oxytocin dynamics can help build healthier technical communities—highlights from Don Goodman’s DevOpsDays Amsterdam talk. - [Defining Double Entry](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/defining-double-entry): A clear, formal definition of double-entry ledgers—what they are (and aren’t), why they matter, and how to model accounts, debits, and credits correctly. - [Clément Salaün: The Color of Money](https://www.formance.com/blog/talks/fintech_devcon-2025): Preview Clément Salaün’s fintech_devcon talk on the Color of Money—rethinking fungibility to model assets, liabilities, location, and risk in modern ledgers. - [Designing Commission Models](https://www.formance.com/blog/financial-operations/commission-models): Commission models hide complex tradeoffs. Learn how to structure and calculate commissions (fixed, %, step) to balance liquidity, retention, and revenue. - [Customer Story: Liberis](https://www.formance.com/blog/customer-story/liberis): How Liberis used Formance Ledger + Reconciliation to scale across 14 countries with zero reconciliation errors, faster launches, and a 2.5‑month go‑live. - [Structuring Invoices](https://www.formance.com/blog/marketplaces/structuring-invoices): Three invoicing models for marketplaces and platforms—customer commission, seller commission, and merchant-of-record—with the risks, benefits, and compliance impacts. - [How Not to Build a Ledger](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/how-not-to-build-a-ledger): Learn the most common ledger design anti-patterns (zero-entry, single-entry pitfalls) and the accounting principles engineers need to build auditable, drift-resistant systems. - [Announcing Formance $21M Series A Funding Round](https://www.formance.com/blog/company/formance-secures-21-million-dollar-in-series-a-funding-co-led-by-paypal-ventures-and-portage-ventures-to-expand-its-open-source-financial-infrastructure): Formance announces a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage Ventures to expand its open-source programmable ledger and platform. - [The Color of Money](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/color-of-money): Why classical fungibility breaks in fintech—and how the “Color of Money” helps trace funds, link assets to liabilities, and model location and risk in ledgers. - [Funds Traceability in Digital Ledgers](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/funds-traceability-in-digital-ledgers): See why classical double-entry can’t trace specific funds—and how alternative models improve asset‑liability mapping, backtracing, and auditability in fintech. - [Warehousing Promises](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/warehousing-promises): Why fintechs shouldn’t issue promises—they should warehouse them. Learn how promise warehousing improves traceability, auditability, and customer protection post‑Synapse. - [Debits and Credits](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/debits-and-credits-for-the-befuddled): Debits and credits are confusing because they’re contextual. Learn the asset/liability semantics of double-entry—and how a source/destination model simplifies ledger design. - [Ledgering, All the Way Up](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/ledgering-all-the-way-up): A practical guide to ledger types—general ledger, core ledger, cash ledger, and sub-ledgers—so you can choose the right system of record for your product. - [Announcing Formance Connectivity](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/announcing-formance-connectivity): Meet Formance Connectivity: a unified connector layer for payments and financial providers, with a normalized data model, transfer initiations, and temporal balance queries. - [Execution of Temporal Queries on Third-Party Data](https://www.formance.com/blog/engineering/execution-of-temporal-queries-on-third-party-data): How to run point-in-time (temporal) queries on providers that don’t support history natively—using observation, mutation logs, and an internal replicated data layer. - [Announcing Ledger V2](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/announcing-formance-ledger-v2): Formance Ledger v2 introduces bi-temporality for time-travel queries, better audits, and clean corrections—plus improved filtering and storage isolation via buckets. - [Announcing Formance Platform](https://www.formance.com/blog/product/announcing-formance-platform): Introducing the Formance Platform: a modular financial core combining Ledger, Connectivity, Flows, and Reconciliation—built for ownership, control, and enterprise-grade ops. - [How Getmomo Banking Platform Streamlines Its Rental Operations with Formance](https://www.formance.com/blog/customer-story/getmomo): How Getmomo, Germany’s digital banking platform for real estate, streamlined deposits and rent operations using Formance Ledger and Connectivity—live in 4 weeks. - [How Newton Trading Platform Achieves Reliable Transaction Tracking with Formance](https://www.formance.com/blog/customer-story/newton): How Newton scaled to $10M+ daily volume and 700K users with Formance Ledger—achieving low-latency performance, audit-grade traceability, and zero downtime. - [Fintech Society - Gérer des flux financiers complexes](https://www.formance.com/blog/podcast/222066a5-ef32-804e-9619-f15554354e76): Podcast episode (Fintech Society) on managing complex financial flows—external listening link archived in Formance’s podcast library. - [How Shares Leverages Formance to Scale Its Investing Platform](https://www.formance.com/blog/customer-story/shares): How Shares used Formance Ledger to scale money movement across brokers, PSPs, and e‑money accounts—supporting 1,000+ assets while cutting engineering load. - [Episode 168: Le Ledger qui aide FinTech et Plateformes à scaler leur back-end](https://www.formance.com/blog/podcast/222066a5-ef32-806b-9fa0-c7d7d1af221d): Podcastics episode with Anne-Sybille Pradelles on building a ledger to help fintechs and platforms scale their back-end—external listening link. - [Formance at Money20/20 2023, Europe’s Biggest Fintech Show](https://www.formance.com/blog/company/formance-at-money-2020-europes-biggest-fintech-show-2023): Why Money20/20 is high-leverage for fintech startups: networking strategy, event planning checklist, and the biggest themes we saw on the floor and on stage. - [The OSS Startup Podcast - Episode 89: Building the Open Source Cloud with Formance](https://www.formance.com/blog/podcast/222066a5-ef32-8015-a293-d9aa6dafa2c5): Episode 89 of the OSS Startup Podcast on Formance and building an open-source financial cloud—external link archived in the podcast section. - … and 4 more articles ## Glossary - [AML (Anti-Money Laundering)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/aml-anti-money-laundering): AML (Anti-Money Laundering) - [Audit Trail](https://www.formance.com/glossary/audit-trail): Audit Trail - [Bi-temporality](https://www.formance.com/glossary/bi-temporality): Bi-temporality - [CASP (Crypto-Asset Service Provider)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/casp-crypto-asset-service-provider): CASP (Crypto-Asset Service Provider) - [CeDeFi (Centralized-Decentralized Finance)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/cedefi-centralized-decentralized-finance): CeDeFi (Centralized-Decentralized Finance) - [Color of Money](https://www.formance.com/glossary/color-of-money): Color of Money - [Core Ledger](https://www.formance.com/glossary/core-ledger): Core Ledger - [Custody / Custodian](https://www.formance.com/glossary/custody-custodian): Custody / Custodian - [Digital Asset](https://www.formance.com/glossary/digital-asset): Digital Asset - [ DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/dora-digital-operational-resilience-act): DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) - [Double-Entry Accounting](https://www.formance.com/glossary/double-entry-accounting): Double-Entry Accounting - [Fiat Currency](https://www.formance.com/glossary/fiat-currency): Fiat Currency - [Float](https://www.formance.com/glossary/float): Float - [Funds in Flight](https://www.formance.com/glossary/funds-in-flight): Funds in Flight - [Fungibility / Non-Fungibility](https://www.formance.com/glossary/fungibility-non-fungibility): Fungibility / Non-Fungibility - [General Ledger](https://www.formance.com/glossary/general-ledger): General Ledger - [GENIUS Act](https://www.formance.com/glossary/genius-act): GENIUS Act - [Idempotency](https://www.formance.com/glossary/idempotency): Idempotency - [Immutability](https://www.formance.com/glossary/immutability): Immutability - [Indemnity](https://www.formance.com/glossary/indemnity): Indemnity - [Issuer / Card Issuer](https://www.formance.com/glossary/issuer-card-issuer): Issuer / Card Issuer - [KYC (Know Your Customer)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/kyc-know-your-customer): KYC (Know Your Customer) - [Liquidity Management](https://www.formance.com/glossary/liquidity-management): Liquidity Management - [MiCA Act](https://www.formance.com/glossary/mica-act): MiCA Act - [NBFI (Non-Bank Financial Institution)](https://www.formance.com/glossary/nbfi-non-bank-financial-institution): NBFI (Non-Bank Financial Institution) - [Omnibus Account](https://www.formance.com/glossary/omnibus-account): Omnibus Account - [Payment Rail](https://www.formance.com/glossary/payment-rail): Payment Rail - [Payment Stablecoin](https://www.formance.com/glossary/payment-stablecoin): Payment Stablecoin - [Posting](https://www.formance.com/glossary/posting): Posting - [PSD2](https://www.formance.com/glossary/psd2): PSD2 - [Reconciliation](https://www.formance.com/glossary/reconciliation): Reconciliation - [Regulatory Reporting](https://www.formance.com/glossary/regulatory-reporting): Regulatory Reporting - [Settlement Finality](https://www.formance.com/glossary/settlement-finality): Settlement Finality - [SOC 2 / ISO 27001](https://www.formance.com/glossary/soc-2-iso-27001): SOC 2 / ISO 27001 - [Stablecoin ](https://www.formance.com/glossary/stablecoin): Stablecoin - [Sub-ledger](https://www.formance.com/glossary/sub-ledger): Sub-ledger - [System of Record](https://www.formance.com/glossary/system-of-record): System of Record - [Tokenization](https://www.formance.com/glossary/tokenization): Tokenization