The open source movement among financial services firms, including those working in capital markets, under the leadership of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) shows no sign of slowing down with the news last week that FINOS has more than 100 members — a year-over-year increase of 20 percent. Some of the new FINOS members… Read More >>
Common Cloud Controls Will Expand Capabilities: FINOS
(The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) and financial services giant Citi recently announced that they launched an open standard project that will formulate consistent controls for cloud computing cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance that cloud service providers (CSPs) can use as the basis for a common set of services. The “Common Cloud Controls (CCC)” effort is… Read More >>
Should Buy-Side IT Teams Embrace Open Source?
(FTF News recently reached out to Madeleine Dassule, partner and co-head, technology, at Wellington Management. Dassule has joined the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) board of directors, a move that coincided with Wellington joining the nonprofit organization. FINOS is a proponent of open source technology, open standards, and collaborative efforts among software development groups in… Read More >>
Q&A: Securities Firms Are More Open to Collaboration
(Systems and software based upon open source technology have permeated the securities trading industry even though firms had reservations about the movement for years. In fact, Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services sector project of the Linux Foundation, had a membership surge in 2021 via a 34 percent increase in new corporate members… Read More >>
Symphony Software Foundation Expands into FINOS
The Symphony Software Foundation is now the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a development in response to an industry demand for an organization to support financial services via a wider variety of more collaborative, open source efforts. FINOS is slated to officially launch April 24 in New York City via Nasdaq’s headquarters. The Symphony Software… Read More >>
