This Week at FINOS: Week of November 22, 2021

We are still processing the tremendous amount of excitement and success from last week's Open Source Strategy Forum and Member meetings. This year's OSSF NY and Member Meetings were all about coming together as a community, driving new ideas, and promoting collaboration across the financial services industry.

Over the two day period, over 250 individuals from over 140 different organizations stemming from banks, to consultancies and tech firms, came together in person to meet and drive an open dialogue around different opportunities and approaches in transforming finance through open technology and standards. We feel incredibly enriched from the invaluable learnings, takeaways, and community insights from our NY OSSF and Member Meetings, and want to share some key takeaways with the wider community:

Example OSSF takeaways :

• The integration of Legend and Databricks
• Strong FSI interest around extending the FDC3 standard and the introduction of free online FDC3 training
• Kick-off of the Compliant Financial Infrastructure and Open Compliance for CDMC projects

Here's what's happening in the week of November 22nd, 2021 within the FINOS community. 

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Monday, November 22nd

• 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Product Control Common Template project
• Our project co-chairs, Abhishek Agarwalla and Poon Kenneth, will be reviewing the participant testing for the PCCT workflow in Legend and will demo how you can replicate the testing on internal installations.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Tuesday, November 23rd

• 10am ET / 2pm GMT. Currency Ref. Data Work Stream Meeting
• The objective of the Currency Reference Data  work stream is to create a standard object to represent currency data and create a central cloud based repository of the currency data. Modeling is being done in the FINOS hosted instance of Legend Studio.
• Calendar invite | Webex | Agenda

Wednesday, November 24th

• 11am ET / 4pm BST. FINOS Office Hours - Your FINOS Questions Answered
• FINOS Office Hours are hosted by Director of Community James McLeod to answer FINOS questions and help people join / start contributing to FINOS.
• Calendar invite | Webex

Thursday, November 25th

• (US Holiday) No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Friday, November 26th

• No project or SIG meetings planned for today.

Upcoming events:

December 8, 2021: FINOS APAC WEBINAR: How Open Source is Driving Innovation in Financial Services and How You Can Get Involved

•  7am GMT, 9am Israel, 3pm Hong Kong, 11pm PST, midnight MST

• Leading financial services companies are embracing open source as a key driver for innovation and efficiency. Companies globally are collaborating to deliver better code, faster, and solve industry challenges.
• This is a rare opportunity for leaders in Asia Pacific financial services and fintech companies to hear how OSS is changing the industry and how they can get involved.
• Register here for FINOS APAC WEBINAR

Have a great week and please contact julia@finos.org or james@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in a FINOS virtual meetup or podcast.