Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI) prepares tomorrow's fintech leaders for the challenges and opportunities they will encounter in a fast-changing and disruptive landscape. Through online executive education courses, targeted research into the fintech industry, and its growing league of industry professionals, DFI builds capabilities with the view to bridge capacity gaps that exist especially in developing markets. DFI's new Chartered Digital Finance Practitioner certification is aimed at graduates who want to pursue a professional career in digital finance, with specialisations in regulation, customers and technology.

DFI has trained more than 2 000 students in 90 countries, and have physical communities of practice established in 18 cities. They connect more than 1 500 industry professionals representing public, private and development sectors in 60 countries through its online community, Switch.

DFI's mission is to build human capacity in digital financial services by equipping a new generation of professionals with the information, skills, and vision they need to deliver and guide society towards inclusive digital financial solutions.

The non-profit organisation was founded in 2015 by David Porteous, Gavin Krugel and Ignacio Mas. Their funders include The Omidyar Network, FSD Africa, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the MasterCard Foundation.