Fnality are comprised of a number of the world's biggest banks including Barclays and UBS, all of whom are shareholders in the scheme. Their objective as stated on the company's website reads:

Fnality International has been founded to create a network of decentralised Financial Market Infrastructures (dFMIs) to deliver the means of payment-on-chain in tomorrow's wholesale banking markets.

In practice, what Fnality are seeking to deliver is the construction of a distributed ledger technology based global payment system, one that can 'facilitate tokenised, peer-to-peer markets'.