Open Finance Academy
Open Finance Academy provides educational content on finance and financial technology and curates lists of learning resources. This community-driven project brings lessons, guides, books, courses, and videos together in one place to make information easier to find and explore.
Open Finance Academy is not a financial advisor and does not provide financial advice. Our content is for educational purposes only. Read our full disclaimer.
We believe everyone has the right to pursue financial freedom and access the knowledge and tools needed to protect themselves from financial exploitation and repression. Open finance should expand people’s choices, privacy, and agency, not make it easier to control or profit from them.
Too much financial education is locked behind paywalls, putting essential knowledge out of reach for people with lower incomes and for historically underrepresented communities. We are building an open alternative: practical, high-quality resources that anyone can access and contribute to.
Learn in the open
Make financial technology easier to understand, more accessible to build with, and more open to everyone.
Explore
Browse the Knowledge outline for the major areas of finance we will develop into lessons, guides, and practical examples over time.
- Financial fundamentals: Build a strong foundation in money, markets, and financial products.
- Open banking and open finance: Understand data portability, consent, and interoperability.
- APIs and data standards: Learn how financial systems connect and exchange information.
- Privacy and security: Build with care and protect people’s financial data.
- Payments and digital identity: Explore the systems behind modern financial experiences.
- DeFi and blockchain: Examine decentralized financial infrastructure and its tradeoffs.
Get involved
This project is in its early stages. Suggest a lesson, improve an explanation, share a resource, or propose a practical exercise by opening an issue on GitHub.
Contact us
Questions, feedback, or ideas? Reach out at info@openfinance.academy.