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The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is excited to open the Open Source Strategy Forum 2018 for registrations and to share our vision for this year’s event!

When we launched OSSF last year, it was the first major event dedicated to open source in financial services. Many large firms were exploring for the first time how open source collaboration could fit into their broader technology strategy, so OSSF 2017 focused on the “why” of open source: how not only using but contributing to open source could increase the return on technical investment.

 

While open source has gradually become central to the business models of even the most reluctant firms in the software industry, software development in financial services remains uniquely siloed. For all of their technical sophistication and business savvy, few firms are ready to make the jump from consuming open source to contributing to an open source project.