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Open Source in Finance Podcast: OS in Finance 101 - Empathy with John Mark Walker, Fannie Mae

November 22, 2022

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with John Mark Walker, Director of Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Fannie Mae. We discuss John Mark's journey and experience with open source. We talk open source communities, ecosystems, and the importance of empathy. We hope you enjoy!

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

Project Updates: Financial Objects: Product Control Common Template

November 17, 2022

There is a lot happening within our SIGs and Projects, and we want to highlight some, including Financial Objects.

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Journeys Through Open Source in Financial Services: Kim Prado, CIO Capital Markets, Bank of Montreal (BMO)

November 16, 2022

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Kim Prado of Bank of Montreal (BMO). She is the CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and Office of the COO. Additionally, Kim serves as the Chair of the Governing Board of FINOS. We discuss Kim's journey to these positions, as well as her journey through open source, and the value she's seen grow as an executive in financial services. We hope you enjoy!

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

Ushering a New Era of Industry-wide Data Standardization (Announcing the Legend + Delta Lake Integration)

In late 2019 when Goldman Sachs announced its intention to contribute the Legend platform to FINOS, the news quickly made the rounds across the financial services industry.

The first, powerful hint at the benefits that all industry constituents, including regulators, could derive from this new platform and the open data model standardization it can foster, could be found in the Legend Studio Pilot FINOS ran in the early months of 2020. This pilot, which brought together data modelers from the sell-side, buy-side, regtech firms and industry associations like ISDA to collaborate on a neutrally hosted instance of Legend Studio to propose community-agreed amendments to the ISDA Common Domain Model which got approved by ISDA in record time. Heck, we even won an award for this effort.

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Journeys Through Open Source in Financial Services - Steven Hawkins, Head of DevOps Transformation, ClearBank

November 03, 2022

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz Griswold sits down with Steven Hawkins of ClearBank. They talk about opportunities and challenges in open source for fintechs, paytechs and challenger banks.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

Open Source in Finance Podcast: 27 October 2022 Debrief + Q4 All Community Call

November 01, 2022

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. We've also added the FINOS Q4 All Community Call audio at the end of the debrief so you can hear from the FINOS team, and then our open source project maintainers on the work they are doing / updates to our projects.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

FINOS Q4 2022 All Community Call

October 27, 2022
The Q4 All Community Call gave updates on the recent FINOS Governing Board Meeting, project updates including KDB+, Morphir, LCR and much more. 

Video from the event and slides are available below.

Introducing FINOS Security Scanning

Today we’re very excited to present FINOS Security Scanning - a FINOS initiative for driving security best practices across our hosted projects. This helps FINOS project maintainers quickly enable continuous scanning on their hosted codebase, as an additional tool of security options.

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