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title: FINOS In The News - How Open Source 'Can Become The Default' In Financial Services Collaboration
description: FINOS, and Executive Director Gab Columbro (@mindthegabz), were featured in a recent Benzinga article.
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# [FINOS In The News - How Open Source 'Can Become The Default' In Financial Services Collaboration](https://www.finos.org/news/how-open-source-can-become-the-default-in-financial-services-collaboration)

 Written by [FINOS Team](https://www.finos.org/news/author/finos-team) | Oct 25, 2018 2:44:59 PM

FINOS, and Executive Director Gab Columbro ([@mindthegabz](https://www.finos.org/news/@mindthegabz)), were featured in a recent Benzinga article. Here's a snippet:

"The finance industry is going through a technological revolution — sometimes in fits and starts.

Amid the waves of change that have come with the advent of mobile, cloud and blockchain technology, a group of industry players have embraced open source technology as an accelerator of technological innovation.

Those players, including Wall Street’s largest banks, are gathering at the [Open Source Strategy Forum](https://opensourcestrategyforum.org/) in London Nov. 14, said Gabriele Columbro, the executive director of the conference's organizer: the Fintech Open Source Foundation, or FINOS."

[Read the Full Article Here](https://www.benzinga.com/fintech/18/10/12549623/how-open-source-can-become-the-default-in-financial-services-collaboration)

[View full post](https://www.finos.org/news/how-open-source-can-become-the-default-in-financial-services-collaboration)

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