ORLANDO, Fla. — Candescent has announced two new initiatives aimed at expanding capabilities on its Intelligent Banking Platform, introducing enhancements to its Marketplace ecosystem and launching a new developer experience called Forge.
The announcements were made at AXIS 2026, the company’s client and partner conference, and are designed to help banks and credit unions more easily integrate fintech solutions and accelerate development on the platform, Candescent said.
Candescent said its updated Marketplace is intended to move financial institutions beyond fragmented fintech integrations by embedding pre-vetted solutions directly into its platform, allowing innovation to occur within the system rather than through separate integrations.
“Every institution we talk to has the same story, promising fintech, months of integration work, and a result that does not match the pitch,” David Ness, vice president of fintech partnerships at Candescent, said in a statement. “Instead of fragmented conversations and one-off evaluations, banks and credit unions have a single, trusted environment to discover, deploy, and scale innovation.”
The Key Benefits
Key benefits of Candescent Marketplace, according to the company, include:
- Reduced Vendor Complexity. Candescent said it has already vetted, integrated, and actively maintains each Marketplace partner so institutions inherit the work, not the overhead.
- Faster Innovation: The company said pre-built integrations mean institutions can move faster from evaluation to activation, piloting sooner and deploying with confidence.
- Experience-Led Differentiation: Because integration work happens at the platform level, institutions can stay focused on what customers and members actually experience, according to Candescent.
Featured Partners
Candescent highlighted several featured partners within the Marketplace, including:
- Callsign: Enables continuous identity verification and risk-based authentication to protect cutomers and reduce fraud.
- Atomic: Streamlines servicing workflows to improve efficiency and lower the cost to serve.
- Wealth Access: Extends the platform with comprehensive wealth and investment data aggregation
- SavvyMoney: Brings credit monitoring and personalized credit insights directly into digital banking.
- MeridianLink – Streamlines borrower journeys with integrated lending and account origination capabilities.
Candescent said the Marketplace is available for institutions seeking to explore integrated fintech capabilities through its platform. For more information on Candescent Marketplace, go here.
Forge is Introduced
In a separate announcement, Candescent introduced Forge, a developer experience it said is designed to make it easier for financial institutions and fintech partners to build, extend and scale applications on the platform.
Candescent said Forge provides self-service access to tools, APIs, documentation and development environments, eliminating the need for manual provisioning and reducing reliance on support teams.
“We have watched development teams spend several months getting to an MVP on a banking platform,” Kranti Talluri, vice president of developer experience at Candescent, said in a statement. “That is not a developer problem. It is a platform problem. We built Forge to fix it.”
The Capabilities
According to Candescent, Forge is designed to accelerate the development lifecycle and includes the following capabilities:
- Self-service development and API management: Developers can create, manage and secure API access independently, eliminating delays from manual provisioning and reducing dependency on support teams.
- Faster development lifecycle: What once took weeks or months now happens in days, and in many cases hours, with streamlined workflows across access, testing, submission and deployment.
- AI-optimized documentation and tooling: Documentation is structured to be AI-searchable, enabling developers to find answers, validate code faster and work more efficiently.
- Extensibility built into the platform: Custom capabilities and third-party integrations operate as native platform experiences, maintaining a consistent user experience, shared security model and unified design system.
- Unified money movement APIs: Direct access to the Candescent Payment Hub allows institutions to embed real-time money movement directly into their workflows.
- Secure, isolated development environments: Each client operates within a dedicated, secure environment, ensuring compliance, governance and enterprise-grade security while enabling safe experimentation and deployment.
Now Available
According to Candescent, Forge is available today for clients and partners. Developers can access documentation, tooling, and self-service capabilities through the Candescent Developer Portal at developer.candescent.com, where they can learn, build, test, and deploy using the same workflows Candescent teams use internally.
