AFI Concepts

The Vocabulary of Adaptive Financial Infrastructure.

The terms that define the category, each defined once, so the language stays precise across every surface that uses it.

In one line

The Company, the Category, the Platform, the Solutions.

XYB created the category, ships it as the AFI Platform, and packages two Solutions financial institutions can buy today.

Company

XYB

The Adaptive Financial Infrastructure company.

Category

Adaptive Financial Infrastructure (AFI)

Banking orchestration, unifying systems, people, and processes, context aware, operationally resilient.

Platform

AFI Platform

The banking orchestrator unifying context.

Solution · Retail & SMB

Adaptive Digital Banking (ADB)

The future-proofed solution for retail and SMB, built on the AFI Platform.

Solution · Commercial banking

Commercial Treasury Solution (CTS)

The future-proofed offering for your customers, built on the AFI Platform.

Reference

An A–Z Glossary.

Every term in the AFI vocabulary, defined once and alphabetised for quick lookup.

Adaptive Digital Banking (ADB)
The future-proofed solution for retail and SMB, built on the AFI Platform.
Adaptive Financial Infrastructure (AFI)
Banking orchestration, unifying systems, people, and processes, context aware, operationally resilient.
Adjacent software categories
The adjacent software categories AFI unifies: Data Platforms for AI, Real-Time Payments, Decentralized Finance, Real-Time Data Streaming, Digital Banking, Treasury, and Business Process Orchestration.
AFI Platform
The banking orchestrator unifying context.
Agentic AI
The first force converging on banking infrastructure, alongside Real-Time Payments and Decentralized Finance. Agents reason on unified real-time context across the full banking stack.
Apache Iceberg
Open table format providing warehouse-grade ACID transactions and time-travel on the data lake; part of the Orchestration Layer.
Apache Kafka
The event backbone at the heart of the Orchestration Layer.
Asset position
Every asset the treasurer holds, fiat and regulated stablecoin, across every account and every rail. Broader than the cash position, which presumes fiat only.
Banking Orchestration
The defining mechanism of AFI: unifying systems, people, and processes on one event-native substrate. The AFI Platform is what delivers it.
Canonical Model
The banking-domain data model every connected system integrates into, once: Customer, Account, Beneficiary, Transaction, Balance. Every workload that follows reads the model, not the system.
Capability
The functional unit of an XYB Solution, named in the language of banking rather than software: Hold, Move, Lend, Grow in Adaptive Digital Banking; See, Move, Govern, Reconcile in Commercial Treasury Solution.
Commercial Treasury Solution (CTS)
The future-proofed offering for your customers, built on the AFI Platform.
Decentralized Finance
The third force converging on banking infrastructure, alongside Agentic AI and Real-Time Payments. Stablecoin readiness moves from market opportunity to regulatory requirement.
Experience Layer
The branded consumer- and operator-facing layer of the AFI Platform.
Integration Tax
The recurring cost of point-to-point integration: every new workload wired to every system it touches. On the canonical model it is paid once per system and does not repeat.
Open Adapters
How best-of-breed partners connect to the Platform: KYC, payments, fraud, AML and sanctions, and equivalents. Each partner sits behind its own adapter contract, so a provider can be substituted, and a partner's outage or price change is contained, without touching business logic.
Orchestration Layer
The event-native layer of the AFI Platform, where banking orchestration happens: the Apache Kafka event backbone, with Apache Iceberg unifying real-time and historical data.
Real-Time Payments
The second force converging on banking infrastructure, alongside Agentic AI and Decentralized Finance. Real-time mandates require infrastructure that operates in real time.
Runtime Layer
The container-first deployment base of the AFI Platform.
XYB
The Adaptive Financial Infrastructure company.

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