GRA · Fintech Nexus
Spatial financeWhere capital meets hazard, exposure and transition
STEM foundation of Fintech Nexus
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Fintech Nexus rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Five pages under STEM foundation of Fintech Nexus.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Payment and financial market technologyDependency mapping of a payment chain · Liquidity stress simulationSteward · Payments and Market InfrastructureApplied here
- 02Distributed ledgers and digital assetsSettlement finality analysis · On-chain flow and reserve reconciliationSteward · Fintech NexusApplied here
- 03Artificial intelligence and machine learningCredit and fraud model evaluation · Drift and challenger monitoringSteward · Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous SystemsApplied here
- 04Cybersecurity and cryptographyThreat-led penetration testing · Supply chain and dependency analysisSteward · Cybersecurity and Digital ResilienceApplied here
- 05Digital identity and public digital systemsAssurance-level mapping · Remote proofing attack testing · Exclusion analysisSteward · Digital Public InfrastructureApplied here
The STEM methods Fintech Nexus applies, and why.
- Payment system dependencies and liquidityRole in Fintech NexusPayment and financial market technology is the base of this field: the messaging, clearing, settlement and liquidity systems through which value moves.
- Distributed ledger and smart contract riskRole in Fintech NexusDistributed ledger analysis examines shared records maintained by consensus, the code that runs on them and the tokens they carry.
- Machine learning model evaluation in financeRole in Fintech NexusArtificial intelligence and machine learning are both tools and objects of study in this field.
- Cyber resilience testing in financeRole in Fintech NexusCybersecurity and cryptography protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of financial systems.
- Digital identity assurance in financeRole in Fintech NexusDigital identity is how people and firms prove who they are to financial services and how they authenticate each time they return.
Each Fintech Nexus method is described once in the STEM Commons at GCRI and applied here to technology dependencies, payment transparency and inclusion under stress.
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Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
- CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (2012) and cyber resilience guidance (2016)
- FATF Recommendations, including revised Recommendation 16 on payment transparency (June 2025; implementation by end-2030)
- EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, Regulation 2022/2554 (applies from 17 January 2025)
- EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), Regulation 2023/1114
Pages in STEM foundation of Fintech Nexus.
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