## Description:
The mission of Apache Fineract is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a core banking platform that provides a reliable, robust, and
affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service
providers to offer financial services to the world's underbanked and unbanked.
## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-18 (9 years ago)
There are currently 55 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Adam Monsen was added to the PMC on 2025-11-05
- No new committers. Last addition was Adam Monsen on 2025-05-16.
## Project Activity:
The project was able to achieve a quarterly release schedule for all of 2025.
The most recent release was done using ATR in early test phase.
Security fixes were made. Test coverage has been improving throughout the
year and new documentation has been added.
There are new modularization efforts underway, although this remains a major
area of work.
This is an active development project, growing interest.
## Community Health:
At a high level, the community is generally ok.
* Participation at Community Over Code conference - and Fintech Security
Track. Successful engagement by several community members.
* Great example in 2025 -engaging Dev discussion about Build issues,
approachability and ease of build as a key driver, good engagement,
resolution and transparent. Called out by PMC chair to celebrate.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/f983bj5328zd0cnwtpqqx8vfd0wnpj0o
* AI policy discussions - how to use AI appropriately - started discussion.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/xxoqt3jn8trhwo1lnxjy46r1dkolfg1h
There are active and important discussions of functionality and direction on
the list. Conversation that occur on Mifos Slack #fineract channel are being
generally summarized back to the email list.
There has been a recent and growing flood of people to the project, with many
coming as candidates for GSOC - adding to volumes on the list. These are Mifos
GSOC participants.
Community meeting held just before last board meeting - successfully noted
progress and identified gaps 2025-10-08 Meeting notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/2025-10-08+Meeting+notes