Sovereign financial infrastructure
Explore our focus areasWe help institutions make and carry out decisions about financial infrastructure, grounded in their mandate and the people they serve.
Aksum Labs brings research, advisory, engineering, and software development to the challenges each institution faces.
Focus areas
View all areasOperational independence
The ability to direct and sustain the systems an institution relies on.
Institutional authority
Clarity over who decides, what can be delegated and how policy can change.
Interoperability
Cooperation between systems without losing the meaning of the information they exchange.
Evidence & accountability
Evidence that supports scrutiny while respecting its purpose and the people it concerns.
Sovereignty,in practice.
The ability to understand, decide, and change the systems an institution depends on.
- Rules
- Set operating policy and retain the authority to change it.
- Knowledge
- Build the understanding to operate, maintain, and adapt systems.
- Data
- Decide how information is accessed, used, and shared.
- Choice
- Keep the ability to change technology, suppliers, and direction.
Shaped around
your priorities.
An engagement can begin with a research question, a policy objective, or a practical challenge. We work with your team to understand the context and agree where we can contribute.
The work may call for an independent assessment, technical advice, a prototype, or implementation. Its form follows the problem.
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