Become a Forge Community Contributor
and build a powerful revenue stream throughout Canada.
Rapidly expand your customer base across Canada’s credit union system
Forge Community provides your Fintech with exclusive access to hundreds of Forge clients – helping you to grow your acquisition pipeline and our clients to optimize their digital experience.
Who are we?
Central 1 is the payments and digital banking provider for Canada’s credit unions. We are known for our innovation, powering progress for hundreds of financial institutions and millions of their customers every day – and we’ve been doing it for over 75 years.
Why become a Forge Community Contributor?

Streamlined integration
Scale your business faster. With a single, cost-effective integration to Forge Community, you can access our entire ecosystem of clients.

Frictionless data access
Connect once to Forge Community and gain access to any Participant’s data (with their permission) to power and personalize the output of your solution.

Optimized sales efforts
Get a head start on business development. We provide promotional support, spotlighting your Fintech and its solution in our client communications.
How to get started
Onboarding to the Forge Community is as easy as: