Do any financial firms use a Django framework?

[rpt...@reportlab.com]

Does anyone know of any financial firms which use a Django framework?
I am preparing a proposal to build a web based solution for a
financial firm using Django, and some key players there would be much
more comfortable if I could point to some "serious" firms in finance
or similar industries which use Django.

I have googled around and found some links such as:

- http://www.djangosites.org/

- http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/31/boston-companies-using-django/

But a lot of these examples are from news and social networking
sites.

If anyone can give examples of Django being used by financial firms or
blue-chip companies, it would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

[Daniel Hilton]

Hi Tom

The UK based payment service provider Secure Trading use it[1] as do
Accountis[2] who use python as well as they were also recruiting
django developers, if I remember correctly.

HTH
Dan

[1] http://www.securetrading.com/jobs.html
[2] http://www.accountis.com/

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[Shawn Milochik]

<soapbox>
It seems to me that anyone asking for precedent in their own industry is
actually interested in whether Django is considered safe from things
like the OWASP Top Ten. They're not interested enough to do the research
themselves, so they're going to take an "argument from authority" as
evidence of security. That is poor decision-making in addition to faulty
logic. By their own logic, the first big company to implement Django is
obviously being foolish, because nobody else had done it yet. In
addition, really big companies with big budgets, large IT departments,
and audited compliance with all the standards get hacked regularly.
</soapbox>

The better question to ask is what kinds of security audits Django has
passed, and what (if any) regular checks are made against target-rich
parts of the system, such as the ORM. However, in the end Django is
still just a framework. It could do everything right and a developer can
make one small oversight and allow an attacker in. I guess the real
question is whether the developer is familiar with the OWASP Top Ten and
its ilk, and competent to write pretty good code.

For what it's worth, my company deals with debit cards and electronic
payments, and we use Django. However, we're not a large company, nor a
"financial firm."

Shawn

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote:

<soapbox>
It seems to me that anyone asking for precedent in their own industry is actually interested in whether Django is considered safe from things like the OWASP Top Ten. They're not interested enough to do the research themselves, so they're going to take an "argument from authority" as evidence of security. That is poor decision-making in addition to faulty logic. By their own logic, the first big company to implement Django is obviously being foolish, because nobody else had done it yet. In addition, really big companies with big budgets, large IT departments, and audited compliance with all the standards get hacked regularly.
</soapbox>

The better question to ask is what kinds of security audits Django has passed, and what (if any) regular checks are made against target-rich parts of the system, such as the ORM. However, in the end Django is still just a framework. It could do everything right and a developer can make one small oversight and allow an attacker in. I guess the real question is whether the developer is familiar with the OWASP Top Ten and its ilk, and competent to write pretty good code.

+1

 

For what it's worth, my company deals with debit cards and electronic payments, and we use Django. However, we're not a large company, nor a "financial firm."

Shawn

[MikeKJ]

Aviva (ex Norwich Union) use django they are a big player in insurance
markets
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[Russell Keith-Magee]

Macquarie -- one of Australia's biggest banking and insurance groups
-- use Django as part of the in their Macquarie Edge share trading
platform. Edge itself isn't built using Django, but the news
processing backend that feeds Edge is built using Django.

http://huntedmedia.com/macquarieedge.html

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

[Jason Beaudoin]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:53 AM, rpt...@reportlab.com
<rpt...@reportlab.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any financial firms which use a Django framework?

Yep. I build advanced payment services for a prominent, offshore
payment service provider, using django, python and nginx/uwsgi at the
core.

~JB