OpenWealth Association

VISION
The OpenWealth Association’s vision is to define, maintain and operationalize the Open API standard for a global wealth management community.
MISSION
The OpenWealth Association’s mission is to strengthen Switzerland as a financial hub and innovation centre by connecting financial institutions, WealthTechs and other service providers, and by setting the Open API standard for a global wealth management community. Furthermore, the association aims to foster the exchange of expertise among its members and with third parties, as well as to cooperate with organizations of similar nature in Switzerland and abroad.
HOW THE OPENWEALTH COMMUNITY WORKS

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OUR BLOG
In June 2020, the global management consultant Synpulse and the Swiss regional bank St.Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB) established the OpenWealth Community with the aim of def...
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OPENWEALTH IN THE NEWS
Hochschule Luzern
12-10-2020
ABOUT US
Today‘s connectivity between custody banks and portfolio management systems (PMS) resp. external asset managers (EAM) is to this date mostly proprietary, with a single data exchange per day (end-of-day) and includes manual steps in the process. This results in an increased error rate as well as additional costs to maintain the different interfaces. A joint study of Synpulse Management Consulting and the St.Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB) together with leading PMS, EAM and custody banks shows that a standardized interface in wealth management is desirable as it leads to advantages for all involved parties. It is such a REST-API (Application Programming Interface) in wealth management that Synpulse and the SGKB are developing as part of a selected community to achieve a standard which is business-oriented, broadly accepted and based on known industrial norms.
