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Certification & Conformance

Also known as: Scheme Participation Engine, Connector Certification, Works-with-IOF

  • engine
  • scheme
  • open-banking
  • ecosystem
  • glossary

Definition

The Certification & Conformance Engine powers IOF positioning as a national-rail / open-finance scheme operator. It owns connector certification (Temenos / Finastra / Mambu / OBP / custom), participant conformance attestations, sandbox-test runs auto-graded against canonical test vectors, scheme version compatibility matrix (v1 / v2 / v3 across rails), the 'Works-with-IOF' status badge for marketplace + ecosystem visibility, and the expiry / renewal / suspension lifecycle (with regulator-liaison escalation if a participant lapses). Status: scaffold; Phase 2 implementation pending.

ID
certification-conformance
Status
preview
Version
0.1.0
Effective
2026-05-09