This Week at FINOS - Week of November 1st
James McLeod
This is a quick reminder to the FINOS Community that UK clocks have gone back by 1 hour to GMT, which means there's now a 4 hours time difference between New York City and London. Please check FINOS Project and SIG start times over the next couple of weeks until US clocks go back and we all fall back in line again.
OSSF NY and the FINOS Member Meetings are now just eight days away! The Open Source Strategy Forum is the premier event driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. There is still time to register and be a part of the community of people, working together to develop best practices, projects, and standards that provide value to our companies, our communities, to the entire financial services industry, and to us individually.
Come meet the FINOS Community, our team, and FINOS Members alongside keynote speakers such as Jo Ann Barefoot, CEO & Founder, Alliance for Innovative Regulation, Christine Moy, Managing Director; Global Head of Liink, Onyx by J.P. Morgan, and Joseph Lubin, Co-founder of Ethereum and Founder of ConsenSys, plus much, much more.
Register now for OSSF New York and the FINOS Member Meetings on Tuesday 9th November and Wednesday 10th November at New World Stages to engage with over 25+ sessions, revealing recent developments and the direction of open source in financial services across a wide range of topics and domains. FINOS member employees can attend OSSF and the FINOS Member Meeting for FREE.
Please email os...@finos.org for any OSSF related questions and to get your FINOS member discount code.
Here's what's happening in the week of November 1st, 2021 within the FINOS community. Please forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to community...@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.
Monday, November 1st
No project or SIG meetings planned for today.
Tuesday, November 2nd
10am ET / 2pm GMT. FDC3 General Meeting
The General Meeting we'll be joined by Aaron Williamson (FINOS legal council) and Rex Jaeschke (member, officer & chair of various ISO, ANSI and Ecma standards committees) to talk about updating FDC3's governance and formalisation of the standard.
10am ET / 2pm GMT. Financial Objects SIG meeting
12pm ET / 4pm GMT. FINOS Regulation Innovation SIG (monthly meeting)
The FINOS Regulation Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community of people interested in creating open source solutions for regulatory and compliance issues in financial services.
Tuesday Nov 2nd : Linux Foundation Member Summit 2021
Join Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director, as Gab keynotes at The Linux Foundation Member Summit (formerly Open Source Leadership Summit). The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations. The event fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies.
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time..
Tuesday Nov 2nd : Symphony Innovate 2021
Join FINOS CTO, Jane Gavronsky who is speaking at Symphony Innovate 2021 as part of the FDC3 panel discussion.
Symphony Innovate 2021 will bring together hundreds of key financial and technology experts from all over the world into a single, digital venue to discuss recent industry transformations, unlock powerful workflows, and connect with purpose. Symphony is holding a concurrent invite-only conference in New York - capacity is limited due to COVID restrictions.
If interested in joining, please contact your Symphony representative.
Wednesday, November 3rd
10am ET / 2pm GMT. Open Source Readiness SIG
The purpose of the OSR SIG is to accelerate financial services firms’ journeys toward open source readiness. The concrete goals of the SIG are to 1) advance the readiness of participants’ firms and 2) to provide guidance for the broader industry in the form of white papers, presentations, and blog posts.
Thursday, November 4th
9am ET / 1pm 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. Compliant Financial Infrastructure, Previously Cloud Service Certification
The mission of the Compliant Financial Infrastructure is to accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of a common set of controls and tests for cloud services.
Friday, November 5th
No project or SIG meetings planned for today.
Upcoming Events:
Nov 9th and 10th : FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum and Member Meetings NYC
At OSSF NY, FINOS brings together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
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.
Kind regards,
James.
