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We're excited to announce that the FDC3 Desktop Agent is now available as a FINOS hosted project at https://github.com/finos/desktop-agent.
 
The FDC3 Desktop Agent is an open source implementation of FDC3 as a Chrome Extension. Its purpose is to provide a quick and easy way for app developers to get started with the FDC3 APIs.  The extension makes FDC3 directly available to any web application in Chrome and provides a default App Directory with a number of demo apps available.  

Author: Nick Kolba - FDC3 Project Lead & Chair
 

As the smart desktop continues to gain momentum in financial institutions, solutions providers depend on a number of modern technologies to realize that vision, including Electron—a container for creating desktop applications with web technologies. Electron has over 100 million installations around the world, and is used by software you already know and use daily—Skype, Slack, Spotify, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp, to name a few. 

Author: Rob Schmidt - Director, Strategic Initiatives, ChartIQ

Guest speaker: Heiko Sundermann, VP, Head of Digital Engagement Practice for wealth and asset management for EPAM, will be presenting on the "EPAM GLUE Project: Developing a Unified Entity and Data Model for the Buy-Side". 

This video was from a live FINOS virtual "Meetup" on April 29, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.

Guest speaker: Petyo Ivanov, Product Manager for Glue42, presents on transitioning a company "From Closed Source to Open Source". 

This video was from a live FINOS virtual "Meetup" on April 15, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.

Guest speaker: Tom Schady, CTO of GreenKey Technologies, presents on "7 Unexpected Lessons from 2 Years of our SDK in Banks". 

This video was from a live FINOS virtual "Meetup" on April 8, 2020. Join us live for future "Meetups" to see real examples of successful collaboration, hear a few top tips from active contributors, and learn about some innovative approaches to maintaining open source projects.

The FDC3 community is delighted to announce the release of FDC3 1.1!  This is the first point update to the FDC3 standard since 1.0 was released a year ago. 1.1 has been an extremely collaborative process with active contribution and input from 10 different firms and a lot of input from teams putting 1.0 into production.  We especially want to give a huge thanks to all of the stakeholders who worked so hard to make this happen!

Be sure to check out the presentation that Nick Kolba, FDC3 Project Lead/Chair, gave during the FINOS virtual Meetup on April 1, 2020 below. It includes great information on FDC3 1.1.

Today, Kubernetes is the de facto application server. The Kubernetes ecosystem of users, vendors and developers is rapidly evolving to ensure its adoption becomes seamless and manageable. Most enterprises, across all domains, are eager to embrace Kubernetes as part of their digital transformation journey. While each industry has a different set of problems to solve, it is clear that Kubernetes has become the common platform to build and deploy solutions.

In this article, we take a closer look at the financial services domain and examine how Kubernetes is influencing banking solutions.

Author: Sreekanth Nyamars - Open Source Center of Excellence Lead, Office of CTO, Wipro