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In this first part of a two part series, we highlight financial regulation - what some might consider a dry subject, but FSI can't get get by without it. This first podcast is taken from a keynote panel from OSFF (Open Source in Finance Forum) from London '22. There are a lot of exciting things we're working on the FINOS Regulation Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG), and this panel discussion helps set the stage for where we believe financial regulation stands today, where we think it is going, and then will set us up for some work / announcements that will be coming out in December '22 around Reg, that you can get involved in now: https://www.finos.org/open-regtech

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Cara Delia of Red Hat. She is a Principal Community Architect in the FSI (Financial Services Industry) and Sustainability Sectors. This is an Open Source in Finance 101 topic: How to get non-technical contributors to contribute to your open source project. We hope you enjoy!

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, we return to our FINOS Debrief episodes (now monthly) that wrap up the past month in the FINOS Ecosystem - and look forward to the next month and beyond.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Ana Jiménez Santamaría, the OSPO Program Manager of the TODO Group.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

This article gives a high-level view of the advantages of open source for stakeholders in financial services institutions, as well as the ecosystem that supports them. 

Why use and contribute to open source in finance? Open source's power is found in leveraging a collaborative development as well as the security and quality of code, with more eyeballs on the code. Banks and fintechs can lower costs of development, speed up time to market, and reduce vendor lock-in.

There are many other advantages for financial services industry firms as well with open source, but the first Open Source in Finance 101 will discuss:

• Why use and then contribute back to open source in financial services.
• How financial services developers can produce a better product by leveraging collaborative development
• How security and quality of source code can be improved through open source

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Dawn Foster, Director Open Source Community Strategy at VMware. 

This is the beginning of our series on the bedrock benefits of open source. Dawn and Grizz talk about how collaboration breeds creativity, how to be a good corporate citizen in open source, and also about Dawn's path, and how she's been able to turn her fascination in open source communities into a career.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, we return to our FINOS Debrief episodes (now monthly) that wrap up the past month in the FINOS Ecosystem - and look forward to the next month and beyond.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, FINOS CTO Jane Gavronsky, Senior Technical Architect Rob Moffat, and Head of Marketing Grizz Griswold do a retrospective of the most recent edition of the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) London from July 2022. We talk about the keynotes, the hallway track, roundtables, and key takeaways from the event. 

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.