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title: Open Source Transformation of the Financial Desktop with OpenFin & FINOS
description: When we started the FDC3 organization last October, we put together a small group of 12 interested parties. Our intention was to see if there was appetite in the industry to set real standards for interoperability of desktop applications. And with 4x growth in less than a year, the answer seems to be a resounding “yes”.
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# [Open Source Transformation of the Financial Desktop with OpenFin & FINOS](https://www.finos.org/blog/open-source-transformation-of-the-financial-desktop-with-openfin-and-finos)

 Written by [OpenFin](https://www.finos.org/blog/author/openfin) | 6/1/18 4:17 AM

*The following is a [cross-post](https://openfin.co/blog/open-source-transformation-of-the-financial-desktop-with-openfin-and-finos) from FINOS Gold Member [OpenFin](https://openfin.co/)*

When we started the [FDC3](http://fdc3.org/) organization last October, we put together a small group of 12 interested parties. Our intention was to see if there was appetite in the industry to set real standards for interoperability of desktop applications. And with 4x growth in less than a year, the answer seems to be a resounding “yes”.

Financial desktops are host to dozens of applications at any given time. Throw into that mix high value and high pressure workflows, a wide array of in-house and 3rd party apps and you have an environment ripe for transformation. For many firms across the industry, interoperability is right at the top of their digital transformation agenda.

The primary goal of [FDC3](http://fdc3.org/) is to create a framework of standards that would enable any number of applications on a financial desktop to interoperate in a meaningful way without having any prior knowledge of each other’s APIs. Simply by following a common standard, apps can be discovered and work together to connect workflows, share data, provide analytics, execute trades, and more.

Today, FDC3 is a member program of [FINOS](http://finos.org/), and FDC3 standards are already being put into production use by the community. But, there is still much more to be done; successful standards don’t just appear. We need the full involvement of the fintech community to make this vision a reality.

Here is what you can do:

- **Join** the FDC3 Program and participate!

- **Share** and demo the FDC3 implementations you have done

- **Lead** an FDC3 meet up

- **Commit** to support the FDC3 standards – standards cannot live without implementations

- **Contribute** time to maintaining FDC3 specifications, implementations, and taxonomies you rely on

For inquiries or to learn more about how to join please email [fdc3@finos.org](mailto:fdc3@openfin.co).

[View full post](https://www.finos.org/blog/open-source-transformation-of-the-financial-desktop-with-openfin-and-finos)

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