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Open Source in Finance Podcast: Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Sebastian Javier Marchano, Developer for Taler System and founder and organizer of the React.js Buenos Aires Community. Sebastian will be taking the stage at the FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) on July 13th in London talking about "Building an Open Source Payment System" specifically with GNU Taler. But then we get into the value of open sourcing a payments system, some central bank talk, and open source benefits in general.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

 

Open Source in Finance Podcast: The FDC3 Journey - Riko Eksteen, Adaptive Financial Consulting

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Riko Eksteen, Head of Desktop Strategy for Adaptive Financial Consulting to talk about The FDC3 Journey. Riko will be taking the stage at the FINOS Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) on July 13th in London talking about what is new in FDC3, but we wanted to have a more in depth talk on Riko's journey, and the journey that FDC3 has taken over the years. Plus, we delve into the importance of open sourcing an interoperability standards project like FDC3, and the inherent benefits you derive from that process.

Episode show notes and transcript are available below.

 

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Introducing FINOS Waltz, the Open Enterprise Project

On this episode of the podcast, FINOS Director of Community, James McLeod sits down with the Waltz maintainers from Deutsche Bank. This is on the heels of the Open Source in Finance Meetup held in London where they announced the Waltz public instance demo.
 
Episode show notes and transcript are available below.
 

Open Source in Finance Podcast: Jevon Beckles, Scott Logic & Alexandra Stratigos, FINOS

In this episode of the podcast - Grizz sits down with Jevon Beckles of Scott Logic & Alexandra Stratigos of FINOS to discuss the forming of the FINOS DEI (Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion) Special Interest Group that has just been announced the FINOS Community - but has been around for years in other forms. We also discuss inclusion of all the humans into this niche of open source technology in financial services and fintech - but also how to be more inclusive of non-developer types into this community as well.
 
Episode show notes and transcript are available below.
 

FINOS Hires Two New Team Members in Marketing and Projects

We’re excited to announce two new members to the FINOS team; Niamh Parker joined us as our new Marketing Manager and Rob Moffat as our Senior Technical Architect. 
 

Open Source in Finance Podcast:  Compliant Financial Infrastructure & Eddie Knight - Managing Consultant, Synechron

In this episode of the of the podcast, James McLeod, FINOS Director of Community sits down with Eddie Knight, Managing Consultant at Synechron, and one of the leads on the FINOS Compliant Financial Infrastructure (CFI) Project. Eddie recently spoke at our Open Source in Finance Meetup in New York a couple of weeks ago. We talk about some of his developer and contributor journey, Synechron's role in open source, and the CFI project as well.
 
 
Episode show notes and transcript are available below.
 

Open Source in Finance Podcast:  FINOS New Senior Technical Architect - Rob Moffat

In this episode of the podcast - Grizz sits down with Rob Moffat, our new Senior Technical Architect, to discuss his developer journey from banks to FINOS, and then a developer's thoughts on the power of open source in financial services.
 
 
Episode show notes and transcript are available below.
 

Open Source in Finance Meetup:  CFI and CDMC - March 2022

Our FINOS Community had an incredible time both in-person, and online for the first Open Source in Finance Meetup of the year! We gathered in midtown New York at our silver member Synechron's beautiful office, with food, drink, discussion, and a few of great presentations on FINOS, the Compliant Financial Infrastructure Project, and the CDMC standard as well.
 
 
Video and slides are available below.
 
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