--- title: FINOS Friday Update Newsletter - 5 November 21 description: "FINOS FRIDAY UPDATE NEWSLETTER\n\n5 NOVEMBER 21\n\nHappy Friday! In this issue we share news on contributions, partnerships, meetings, meetups, and major events. Read on to find plenty of ways to engage with the FINOS Community and projects." image: https://www.finos.org/hubfs/finos-generic-newsletter.png --- [![FINOS](https://www.finos.org/hs-fs/hubfs/sofin%20assets/SOFIN%20LOGOS/finos-logo.png?width=543&height=126&name=finos-logo.png "FINOS")](https://finos.org) - [Projects](https://www.finos.org/projects) - [Artificial Intelligence (AI)](https://ai.finos.org/) - [Common Domain Model (CDM)](https://www.finos.org/common-domain-model) - [FDC3](https://www.finos.org/fdc3) - [Fluxnova](https://fluxnova.finos.org) - [FINOS Common Cloud Controls](https://www.finos.org/common-cloud-controls-project) - [High Performance Computing (HPC)](https://hpc.finos.org) - [OSERA](https://osera.finos.org/) - [Open Source Readiness Initiative](https://www.finos.org/open-source-readiness) - [OS-Climate](https://www.finos.org/os-climate) - [Try our Projects](https://www.finos.org/project-sandbox) - [All Projects Landscape](https://landscape.finos.org/) - [Community](https://www.finos.org/engage-with-our-community) - 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[Join our Slack channel](https://finos-lf.slack.com/messages/finos-community/) - [Recognize a contributor](https://github.com/finos/community/issues/new?assignees=mcleo-d&labels=community-recognition&template=Community-Recognition.md&title=FINOS+Community+Recognition) - [Ambassador Program](https://www.finos.org/ambassador-program) - [Membership](https://www.finos.org/membership-benefits) - [Members](https://www.finos.org/members) - [Inquire](https://www.finos.org/membership-benefits#become-a-member) - [Join](https://joinnow.platform.linuxfoundation.org/?project=finos) - [Member ROI Summary & Calculator](https://www.finos.org/roi-report-calculator) - [Dependency Consumption Analysis](https://www.finos.org/dependency-consumption-analysis) - Resources - [2025 Mission & Vision](https://www.finos.org/2024-in-review-2025-vision) - [Research & Case Studies](https://www.finos.org/research-case-studies) - [Training](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/finos/) - [Open Source Maturity Model](https://osr.finos.org/docs/bok/OSMM/Introduction) - [Contributions Live Dashboard](https://metrics.finos.org) - [Our Github Organization](https://github.com/finos/) - [Our Developer Toolchain](https://odp.finos.org/) - [FINOS Store](https://store-finos.myshopify.com/) - News & Events - [This Week At FINOS](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos) - [Community Blog](https://www.finos.org/blog) - [Newsletter](https://www.finos.org/newsletter) - [Podcast: Open Source in Finance](https://www.finos.org/open-source-in-finance-podcast) - [Press Releases](https://www.finos.org/press) - [FINOS Events](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events) - [Community Events](https://www.finos.org/featured-events) - [Community Spotlight](https://www.finos.org/community-spotlight) - [Stay Informed](https://www.finos.org/sign-up) - [About](https://www.finos.org/about-us) - [Stay Informed](https://www.finos.org/sign-up) - [FAQs](https://www.finos.org/faq) - [Contact Us](https://www.finos.org/contact-us) - [Governing Board](https://www.finos.org/governing-board) - [Technical Oversight Committee](https://www.finos.org/technical-oversight-committee) - [Team](https://www.finos.org/team) - [Governance](https://www.finos.org/governance) - [Code of Conduct](https://www.finos.org/code-of-conduct) - [OSFF + Videos](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum) - [OSFF 2026](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum/) - [OSFF Toronto 2026 Videos](https://www.finos.org/osff-toronto-2026-videos) - [OSFF New York 2025 Videos](https://www.finos.org/osff-nyc-2025-videos) - [OSFF London 2026 Videos](https://www.finos.org/osff-london-2026-videos) - [apidays Paris 2025 Videos](https://www.finos.org/apidays) ![Newsletter](https://www.finos.org/hubfs/FINOS/website/banner-backgrounds/Community%20(Teal%2080).png) # Newsletter ## FINOS Friday Update Newsletter - 5 November 21 November 05, 2021  ![finos-generic-newsletter](https://www.finos.org/hs-fs/hubfs/finos-generic-newsletter.png?width=2000&name=finos-generic-newsletter.png)   FINOS FRIDAY UPDATE NEWSLETTER # 5 NOVEMBER 21 Happy Friday! In this issue we share news on contributions, partnerships, meetings, meetups, and major events. Read on to find plenty of ways to engage with the FINOS Community and projects. ### NEW YORK 9 & 10 NOV - MEMBER MEETING & OSSF Last chance - The FINOS Member Meeting & OSSF are next week... Members get in free to both events. ### Member (only) Meeting Tuesday, November 9th, 12pm-6pm, New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York [**Full Schedule**](https://sched.co/pMzv) **|** [**Registration (Free registration for FINOS Members)**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-strategy-forum-new-york/register/) ### Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) Wednesday, November 10th, 8am-6:30pm, New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York [**Full Schedule**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-strategy-forum-new-york/program/schedule/) **|** [**Registration (FINOS Members register for free)**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-strategy-forum-new-york/register/)   ### FINOS NEWS ### FINOS AND EDM COUNCIL PARTNERSHIP Wednesday, FINOS and the EDM Council (a cross-industry trade association for data management and analytics) announced a partnership, to accelerate the implementation of the [**Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework**](https://edmcouncil.org/page/CDMC) via an end-to-end open source testing and infrastructure-as-code suite. This would be the first open source suite to accelerate cloud compliance for financial services. This partnership will allow automatic configuration of deployments to reach full compliance through the FINOS’ [**Compliant Financial Infrastructure**](https://github.com/finos/compliant-financial-infrastructure) project (formerly known as Cloud Service Certification) which will host infrastructure-as-code for the leading CSPs. [****Read More About The Partnership Here****](https://finos.org/press/finos-and-edm-council-partner-to-develop-first-open-source-suite-for-accelerating-cloud-compliance-for-financial-services)   --- ### GAB SHORTLISTED FOR BENZINGA FINTECH AWARDS Thank you for voting for our Executive Director Gabriele Columbro for the Benzinga Fintech Awards in the "Most Impactful Fintech Executive". Gab is listed in the top three of the category that had a lot of great nominations. [Benzinga Award Finalists](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/benzinga-unveils-global-fintech-awards-195500781.html)   --- ### THE STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES (REPORT) PODCAST We just recorded an interview with two of the authors of the report, Hilary Carter, VP of Research, Linux Foundation & Tosha Ellison, Strategic Advisor, FINOS - so get more insight into the why and how of the survey, unexpected findings, and key takeaways. [**Download the Report**](https://finos.org/state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-2021) **| **[**Listen to the Podcast**](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-interview-hilary-carter-and-tosha-ellison)   ### FINOS PROJECTS AND COMMUNITY ### FDC3 WORKBENCH CONTRIBUTION Introducing FDC3 Workbench Contributed to FINOS by the developers of Finsemble ([**Press Release**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cosaic-open-sources-fdc3-workbench-to-bolster-interoperability-across-the-finance-industry-301404921.html)) Now you can easily implement and test FDC3 support in your application with the open source FDC3 workbench. Learn the FDC3 API and verify that your application communicates correctly with other applications using FDC3 protocol. [**FDC3 Website**](https://fdc3.finos.org/) **|** [****FDC3 GitHub Repo |****](https://github.com/finos/FDC3)[**Use the FDC3 Workbench**](https://fdc3.finos.org/toolbox/fdc3-workbench/)   --- ### SYMPHONY WDK CONTRIBUTION Symphony WDK was successfully contributed to the Application / Symphony Ecosystem and it's now available as a FINOS hosted project at [**https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk**](https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk). The WDK 1.0 is the latest version of the Symphony Workflow Developer Kit, enabling developers to define Symphony-based workflows using a descriptive language. The most current release is 1.0.0-RC, available for download: [**https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk/tree/1.0-rc**](https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk/tree/1.0-rc) Documentation is available at [**https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk/blob/1.0-rc/docs/getting-started.md**](https://github.com/finos/symphony-wdk/blob/1.0-rc/docs/getting-started.md). We are also preparing a free training and certification program that will be available soon on[**https://developers.symphony.com/**](https://developers.symphony.com/).   --- ### PROJECT RECRUITMENT: COMPLIANT FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE & OPEN COMPLIANCE FOR CDMC With this week FINOS and the EDM Council announcing the first open source cloud compliance standards for financial services, there is now a need new maintainers for the [**Compliant Financial Infrastructure**](https://github.com/finos/compliant-financial-infrastructure) and [**Open Compliance for CDMC**](https://github.com/finos/open-compliance-cdmc)projects. Visit the links below to apply. [**Maintainers Wanted for Compliant Financial Infrastructure**](https://github.com/finos/compliant-financial-infrastructure/issues/156) [**Maintainers Wanted for Open Compliance for CDMC**](https://github.com/finos/open-compliance-cdmc/issues/1)   --- ### FINOS APAC Webinar in November 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. How can financial services and fintech companies in Asia Pacific join and benefit from this collaboration? FINOS, along with Morgan Stanley, and Wipro will hold this special Asia Pacific webinar on Wednesday 17th November to answer these and other key questions. [**See Panelists & Register Here**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5616360449067/WN_o4ctgeCeS0OGjzepnuQmAw)   --- ### FINANCIAL OBJECTS: PRODUCT CONTROL COMMON TEMPLATE MEETING We have scheduled our next Product Control Common Template working group meeting on Monday, 8 November @ 10am ET / 3pm GMT. Join for a quick recap of the proposed data transformation workflow with a full demo. The project leads will be sharing important updates on the project as well as sharing details on how banks & vendors can replicate the testing on their internal installations.  [**Financial Objects SIG Repo**](https://github.com/finos/financial-objects/issues) **|** [**Calendar Invite**](https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=ZTg3OGppbm1sYTRzN2c3ZGZrZjI0a2hrbXBfMjAyMTExMDhUMTUwMDAwWiBmaW5vcy5vcmdfZmFjOG1vMXJmYzZlaHNjZzBkODBmaThqaWdAZw&tmsrc=finos.org_fac8mo1rfc6ehscg0d80fi8jig%40group.calendar.google.com)   ### JOIN US AT THESE RELEVANT EVENTS 9-10 November - Members Meeting & Open Source Strategy Forum - NYC [More Info & Register Here](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-strategy-forum-new-york/) --- 17 November - FINOS APAC Meetup [More Info & Register Here](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5616360449067/WN_o4ctgeCeS0OGjzepnuQmAw)   ### recent podcasts  [**State of Open Source in Financial Services Interview**](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-interview-hilary-carter-and-tosha-ellison)[-](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-linux-foundation-research-and-the-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-21-october-21)**Hilary Carter, Linux Foundation Research & Tosha Ellison, FINOS** [**FINOS Debrief 29 October 21**](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-finos-debrief-29-october-21)[- Grizz Griswold, FINOS](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-linux-foundation-research-and-the-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-21-october-21) [Linux Foundation Research & The State of Open Source in Financial Services - **Hilary Carter, Linux Foundation, Gilles Gravier, Wipro Ltd., & Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic**](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-linux-foundation-research-and-the-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-21-october-21) [**FINOS & OSSF London Debrief 14 October 21**](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-finos-ossf-london-debrief-14-october-21)[- Grizz Griswold, FINOS](https://finos.org/blog/open-source-in-finance-podcast-linux-foundation-research-and-the-state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-21-october-21)   Subscribe and listen to our podcasts on Open Source in Finance.  [**Apple Podcasts **](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finos-open-source-in-fintech-podcast/id1512371068)| [**Anchor.fm **](https://anchor.fm/finos)| [**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/show/431XdfX2fBdCUsopwh8td3) | [**Google Podcasts **](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xZjQ0NTg4MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==)   ### LEARN MORE [**This Week at FINOS Blog**](https://finos.org/this-week-at-finos) - See what is happening at FINOS each week. [**FINOS Landscape**](https://landscape.finos.org/) - See our landscape of FINOS open source and open standard projects. [**Community Calendar**](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=finos.org_fac8mo1rfc6ehscg0d80fi8jig%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York)- Scroll through the calendar to find a meeting to join. [**FINOS Slack Channels**](https://finos.org/blog/finos-announces-new-community-slack?utm_campaign=20210428%20-%20FINOS%20All%20Community%20Call%20-%20Q2%202021&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Zgn2rjI2nlAwd4d3Mf5LKC8CmqUJ1wzZYFYOTKgWIuCxaowceMq1Y0ZiFrWPAcWoelavo) - The FINOS Slack provides our Community another public channel to discuss work in FINOS and open source in finance more generally. [**All FINOS Project Good First Issues**](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Afinos+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22&unscoped_q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)- A good place to start contributing to, and making a difference in, open source in financial services is by taking a look at the FINOS Good First Issues (GFI) List on GitHub. [**Project Status Dashboard**](https://metrics.finos.org/goto/7bfcb03f027a1406c997d731d4715ea7) - See a live snapshot of our community contributors and activity. [**Events**](https://finos.org/news-and-events) - Check out our upcoming events or email [**marketing@finos.org**](mailto:marketing@finos.org) if you'd like to partner with us or have an event idea. [**FINOS Virtual "Meetups" Videos & Slides**](https://finos.org/knowledge-base#finos-event-videos) - Access replays of our virtual "meetups" based around the FINOS Community and Projects since we can't all be in the same room right now. [**FINOS Open Source in Finance Podcasts**](https://anchor.fm/finos) - Subscribe and listen to the first open source in financial services and banking podcast for deeper dives on our virtual "meetup" and other topics.     **Interested in FINOS open source projects? 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