Singapore, 12 November 2025 – The Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) today announced the beta launch of ALFIN, a first-of-its-kind AI research intelligence platform for the financial industryat the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) 2025, reflecting the industry’s shift toward trusted and explainable AI applications in finance.
AI for Finance Enters a New Era of Trust and Transparency
Launched against the backdrop of rapid AI adoption in financial services, ALFIN debuts as the first purpose-built intelligence engine for the FinTech industry, addressing the sector’s urgent need for trusted, explainable, and verifiable AI systems.
The Intelligence Core Powering Smarter Decisions in Global Finance
ALFIN integrates three verified data layers — GFTN’s proprietary insights from global innovators, investors, and regulators; trusted public data from financial and regulatory sources; and user-referenced inputs for real-world context — creating one of the most comprehensive intelligence platforms in the FinTech industry. The result is verifiable, explainable, analyst-grade intelligence delivered in seconds.
“The current financial ecosystem is inundated with vast amounts of data but struggles with organizing intelligence, distinguishing meaningful signals from noise, and providing policymakers with real-time, contextual insights that link innovation to regulation,” said Sopnendu Mohanty, Group Chief Executive Officer of GFTN. “ALFIN is designed to analyse information and enhance decision-making by merging human expertise with machine intelligence to meet the dynamic demands of global finance. ALFIN empowers every financial stakeholder to transition from raw information to clear insights, and from insights to well-informed, data-driven actions.”
ALFIN Transforms Data into Decision-Ready Intelligence for Financial Institutions, Innovators, and Policymakers
Designed for financial institutions, analysts, and policymakers, ALFIN transforms complex market data into actionable intelligence. It helps strategy and risk teams make informed investment and compliance decisions, gives FinTech leaders real-time competitive and regulatory insights, and enables policymakers to track innovation and benchmark financial systems worldwide.
“ALFIN is a verifiable AI Subject Matter Expertise engine,built on expert-reviewed and graded inputs,” said Madhuvarshitt Yerramilli Subramanya, Director of Engineering at GFTN. “By combining human expertise with rigorous data validation, ALFIN reduces hallucinations, builds trust, and delivers reliable, decision-ready insights. Every output is transparent and cited, empowering users to understand not just what is happening in finance, but why it matters and how it will evolve.”
Built on Ten Years of FinTech Innovation and Ecosystem Intelligence
ALFIN is more than an AI engine. It’s the product of a decade of collaboration, research, and real-world insight drawn from GFTN’s (formerly Elevandi) global FinTech forums across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Built on knowledge shared by policymakers, innovators, and investors who have shaped the digital finance landscape, ALFIN transforms ten years of collective intelligence. It redefines how the financial industry searches, interprets, and applies data powering smarter policy, sharper market strategy, and new opportunities across global markets.
ALFIN goes beyond a conventional AI engine. It represents the culmination of a decade of collaboration, research, and ecosystem intelligence built through GFTN’s (formerly Elevandi) global FinTech forums across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Drawing on insights from policymakers, innovators, and investors who have shaped the digital finance landscape, ALFIN distils ten years of industry learning into an adaptive intelligence system. It redefines how the financial sector searches, interprets, and applies data empowering smarter policy design, sharper strategic insight, and the discovery of new opportunities across markets.
Following its beta debut at SFF 2025, ALFIN will be accessible in early 2026 as part of GFTN’s expanded digital platform offerings.
“ALFIN represents the next evolution of intelligence infrastructure for finance,” added Mohanty. “It brings transparency and contextual understanding to a field long dominated by black-box systems. By integrating verified insights from GFTN’s global network spanning more than 130 countries, alongside a decade of proprietary intelligence from its flagship platforms including the Singapore FinTech Festival, ALFIN channels the collective wisdom of the global financial community into one intelligent system.”
