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“L’unione fa la forza” (unity is strength) is one of the most common proverbs in the Italian language. Especially in this period, as the world re-discovers how important and powerful it is to collaborate across borders to solve an unprecedented challenge, it feels good to be part of a growing open source movement.

Author: Gabriele Columbro - Executive Director, FINOS

Please find video and slides from the April 9th, 2020 announcement at the end of this blog post.

As the world faces the unprecedented crisis posed by COVID-19 and adapts to a new reality made of remote workplaces and social distancing, I can’t avoid thinking every day how lucky we are to work in technology and, even more, how grateful we are to have born and been raised in Open Source technology.

Author: Gabriele Columbro - Executive Director, FINOS

In This Article

• With COVID-19 now upon us, many firms are having to suddenly shift to new patterns of remote, distributed work
• Open Source communities have been working in a remote, distributed, time-shifted way for decades and have been extremely productive
• Open Source is a safe harbor for shared technology investments in a context that requires even more efficiency and risk mitigation
• Post COVID-19, open source will make even more sense, not just for tech companies but for every industry

Guest Speaker: Tobie Langel, Open Source Strategist and Principal at UnlockOpen presents on leveraging open source culture to recruit, retain, and foster top talent.

This video was from a live webinar conducted for the FINOS Open Source Readiness (OSR) project. The OSR project meets bi-weekly for guest presentations, knowledge-sharing between financial industry firms solving similar issues on their road to open source readiness, and discussion of open source strategy. Take a look at upcoming meeting agendas and join us!

FINOS is pleased to announce that Waltz has been successfully contributed to the FDX Program and is now available as a FINOS hosted project through GitHub.

Primarily developed by Khartec Ltd and FINOS Platinum Member, Deutsche Bank, Waltz helps large organisations understand their technology landscape in a consistent, well-documented and easily digestible format. Waltz shows where applications reside, what they do and how they are connected. Waltz has been used to assist with key performance metrics, data lineage, regulatory responses and application rationalisation / migration programs. 

FINOS Silver Member EPAM recently sat down with Brad Levy, formerly managing director and global head of loans at FINOS Gold Member IHS Markit and CEO of MarkitServ—the firm’s post-trade service for OTC derivatives—to discuss how open source in financial services is gaining momentum.