Dear FINOS Community,

Welcome to our first 2023 newsletter and Happy New Year on behalf of the whole FINOS team! After a momentous 2022, I hope you had a fantastic and well deserved holiday season and are ready for a game-changing 2023.

Yes, if I project the 2022 trends of outstanding growth along all dimensions, I firmly believe game-changing is the only appropriate word to describe this year's opportunities. Last year we reached a critical mass of almost 70 Members across the globe, we hosted an ever more mature landscape of 50+ projects being used in production across the industry and most importantly, like measured in our 2022 report, the industry itself has accelerated the pace at which they adopt, contribute and invest in open source strategically.

So in 2023 it behooves us to take a page out of the big tech book and unleash the ultimate power of open collaboration model to solve some of the most pressing collective challenges in financial services and innovate financial technology for good. More concretely, we have reached a level of maturity for which it's time to think bigger and commence (or accelerate) broad support initiatives that will fundamentally change how this industry operates, very much like OpenWallet Foundation is doing to digital credentials or Overture is doing for enterprise maps.

Whether it'll be identity, open data, CDBC, KYC or any other regulation, an entirely payment protocol, it will depend on your input and contributions as a community and how well we align to your collective priorities and corporate strategies. I encourage you all, old and new, to get involved and help us make a real impact whether it's through ideas, contributions, introductions and leadership in our activities. 

Cheers to an exciting 2023! Let's make this the year open source changed financial services, for good.

Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS

We're now one week away from our Open Source in Finance Forum, New York. We can't wait to see you all there! If you haven't already, register here. We have a jam-packed schedule including keynotes from Discover's Dr. Angel Diaz, RedHat's Cara Delia, Goldman Sach's Rohan Deshpande, LinkedIn's Sara Chipps and much more. As well as that, we have project expo demonstrations showcasing FINOS projects including FDC3, CDM (Common Domain Model), Timebase, Symphony and more!  

We’re delighted to welcome FINOS newest team member, Eteri Dvalishvili. Eteri is joining us as a Project Manager based out of Brooklyn, New York. She'll be at OSFF next week along with the rest of the team. Connect with Eteri on LinkedIn here. 

This month we also announced the addition of seven new members to FINOS. Read more and meet the new members here.

Thank you to everyone who joined our Q4 All Community Call yesterday. We covered lots of exciting things including, Open Source Finance Forum New York, project updates and much more. In case you missed it, you can view the recording here. 

We’re delighted to announce a new contribution - FINOS Security Scanning, an initiative for driving security best practices across hosted projects. This helps FINOS project maintainers quickly enable continuous scanning on their hosted codebase, as an additional tool of security options. Read more here.  

Congratulations to our Chief Technology Officer, Jane Gavronsky for being named as a finalist for the Markets Choice Women in Finance Awards. The winners will be announced on November 17th. 

Our Head of Marketing, Grizz Griswold will be at All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina next week. Get in touch on LinkedIn if you’ll be there and if you want to feature in our podcast, schedule an interview with Grizz onsite.

The schedule for the Open Source in Finance Forum, NYC is now live.  Don’t forget! FINOS member employees attend for free. Contact osff@finos.org to get your access code.

Thank you to everyone who joined the Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin. We had exciting announcements including our Executive Director Gabriele Columbro being appointed General Manager of the newly launched Linux Foundation Europe. Read our recap blog here. Get an insight into Gab's new role during a video interview here. 

We're excited to feature in Goldman Sach's new blog post about how FINOS project, Legend has empowered global markets engineering. Read the full article here.

Don't forget! Register here for the Open Source in Finance Forum, NYC! FINOS member employees attend for free. Contact osff@finos.org to get your access code. 

Hurry! The deadline to submit a proposal for our Open Source in Finance Forum NYC is approaching on Monday September 12. Don't miss your chance to speak at the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. Submit a proposal or register here. 

Congratulations to our Executive Director Gabriele Columbro on being named as a finalist for the US Fintech Awards, under the Director of the Year category. The awards will be held virtually on September 15 at 4pm EDT. You can register here to tune into the ceremony.

The 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services survey has been extended to September 21. If you work in a financial services organization, please take the survey now! You even get a 25% discount for Linux Foundation training and certification courses for completing the survey.