This Week at FINOS - Week of November 15th
James McLeod
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to last week's Open Source Strategy Forum and FINOS Member Meetings in New York City. We owe it to the incredible attendees, speakers and sponsors for packing the event full of innovation and education surrounding open source in the financial services industry. FINOS would like to give a special thanks to the Linux Foundation events team for making both the London and NYC events a seamless experience.
Each year at OSSF, FINOS has the incredible opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of FINOS Members and Contributors. We are forever grateful to the growing FINOS Community and are pleased to announce the winners of the FINOS Member and FINOS Community Awards for the Americas region below. Well done and congratulations.
- Most Active Individual: Pierre De Belen, Goldman Sachs
- Outstanding Leadership: Stephen Goldbaum, Morgan Stanley
- Shining Star Award: Perspective, JPMorgan Chase
- Newcomer: Ephrim Stanley, Goldman Sachs
- Coaching Award: Eddie Knight, CitiHub
- Most Active Member: Goldman Sachs
- Spread The Word: Cosiac
- Going "All In" Award: RBC
- Leading The Pack: Cosiac
- Breaking the Status Quo: Itaú
Monday, November 15th
No project or SIG meetings planned for today.
Tuesday, November 16th
9am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 Channels, Feeds & Transactions Discussion group
There are currently 9 open issues in the FDC3 repository, under consideration for the 2.0 release, that relate to the existing concept of channels (both the 'system channels' used via the desktop agent API, and 'app channels' interacted with through the Channels API) and new concepts we've discussed introducing: transactions (a standardized way to make a request and receive a response back) and feeds (a standardized way to request a stream of data, such as a pricing stream).
10am ET / 2pm GMT. FINOS Reg SIG off-schedule meeting: Reg Taxonomy project discussion
Wednesday, November 17th
Leading financial services companies are embracing open source as a key driver for innovation and efficiency. Companies globally are collaborating to deliver better code, faster, and solve industry challenges.
This is a rare opportunity for leaders in Asia Pacific financial services and fintech companies to hear how OSS is changing the industry and how they can get involved.
Thursday, November 18th
10am ET / 3pm GMT. FDC3 Standard Working Group
FDC3 aims to provide an open standard for interoperability on the financial desktop. This includes standardized verbs to invoke actions between applications (called "intents"), a standardized data format, an OpenAPI app directory standard, and standardized API operations.
12am ET / 5pm GMT. FINOS DevOps Mutualization Special Interest Group
The DevOps Mutualization Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to solve common engineering problems by providing a continuous compliance and assurance approach to DevOps that mutually benefits banks, auditors and regulators whilst accelerating DevOps adoption in engineering and fintech IT departments.
Friday, November 19th
10am ET / 3pm GMT. Compliant Financial Infrastructure Project Bi-Weekly Meeting
Please Note : Starting this week Compliant Financial Infrastructure project meetings are on Friday at 10am ET / 3pm GMT.
Compliant Financial Infrastructure accelerates the development, deployment and adoption of services provided for AWS, Azure and Google in a way that meets existing regulatory and internal security controls.
Have a great week and please contact ja...@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.
Kind regards,
James
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