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This article gives a high-level view of the advantages of open source for stakeholders in financial services institutions, as well as the ecosystem that supports them. 

Why use and contribute to open source in finance? Open source's power is found in leveraging a collaborative development as well as the security and quality of code, with more eyeballs on the code. Banks and fintechs can lower costs of development, speed up time to market, and reduce vendor lock-in.

There are many other advantages for financial services industry firms as well with open source, but the first Open Source in Finance 101 will discuss:

• Why use and then contribute back to open source in financial services.
• How financial services developers can produce a better product by leveraging collaborative development
• How security and quality of source code can be improved through open source

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Dawn Foster, Director Open Source Community Strategy at VMware. 

This is the beginning of our series on the bedrock benefits of open source. Dawn and Grizz talk about how collaboration breeds creativity, how to be a good corporate citizen in open source, and also about Dawn's path, and how she's been able to turn her fascination in open source communities into a career.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, we return to our FINOS Debrief episodes (now monthly) that wrap up the past month in the FINOS Ecosystem - and look forward to the next month and beyond.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, FINOS CTO Jane Gavronsky, Senior Technical Architect Rob Moffat, and Head of Marketing Grizz Griswold do a retrospective of the most recent edition of the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) London from July 2022. We talk about the keynotes, the hallway track, roundtables, and key takeaways from the event. 

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Kris West, Principal Engineer at Cosaic, and Lead Maintainer for the FDC3 Project to talk about the release of FDC3 v2.0, Kris' role as a maintainer, and the "why" on changing a standard like FDC3.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Nava Levy, AI/ML Developer Advocate at Redis to talk about her OSFF talk: "The Challenges of Deploying Real-time AI for Finance and how Open Source can help". Plus, we talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning and deep learning, how it can apply to finance, and how open source has a place in all of this.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Ana Jiménez Santamaría, OSPO Program Manager at the TODO Group to talk about her OSFF talk: "OSPOs in Finance: Ways to Overcome Industry Barriers to Accelerate OS Adoption". Plus, we talk about what an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is, some benefits, and where we think the future might lead for OSPOs in financial services.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Elena Lape, Co-Founder of Holographic Inc. to talk about her OSFF talk: "How to get them to Commit?". Plus, we talk about developer relations, open source in financial institutions, and open source buzzwords, and what some of them really mean.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.