Here's what's happening in the week of October 19th, 2020 within the FINOS community. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a note to community+subscribe@finos.org and you'll be added to the mailing list.
Monday, October 19th
- No project meetings planned.
- [external event] (Day 1 of 5) Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) Techsprint on Financial Crime
- FINOS is happy to be providing an open source platform for AIR's TechSprint on Financial Crime taking place during the week of October 19-23. This TechSprint will bring together a diverse set of stakeholders, including regulators, FinTechs, law enforcement officers and cryptocurrency experts, with an aim to surface new models of traceability and technological solutions to improve anti-money laundering tools and processes around cryptocurrencies.
- Join here
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Currency Reference Data workstream
- [external event] 10.50am ET / 3.50pm BST Mojaloop Community Event
- The Mojaloop Foundation promotes Open Source Software to empower organizations to create interoperable digital payment systems to increase financial inclusion. FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro will join a Q&A session with Paula Hunter, Executive Director, Mojaloop at 10.50am ET / 3.50pm BST.
- Agenda | Register here for free
- [external event] October 20 OpenUK Awards
- The First Edition of the OpenUK Awards is being held on 20 October 2020, online, 6pm and celebrates Open Technology, being Open Source Software, Open Source hardware and Open Data with 6 Awards.
Wednesday, October 21st
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. ODP Project
Thursday, October 22nd
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. Cloud Service Certification Project
- 10am ET / 3pm BST. FDC3 Standard Working Group
Friday, October 23rd
- No project meetings planned.
- [external event] (Day 5 of 5) Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) Techsprint on Financial Crime
- FINOS is happy to be providing an open source platform for AIR's TechSprint on Financial Crime taking place during the week of October 19-23. This TechSprint will bring together a diverse set of stakeholders, including regulators, FinTechs, law enforcement officers and cryptocurrency experts, with an aim to surface new models of traceability and technological solutions to improve anti-money laundering tools and processes around cryptocurrencies.
- Join here
Looking Ahead:
- October 26-29 Open Source Summit Europe
- October 28 Open Source Readiness project Guest presentation: Open Data Licensing by Kathleen Lu, Attorney, Mapbox
- Open data and open data licensing has many similarities to open source and open source licensing, but also several unique aspects. This talk provides an introductory primer on open data and open data licensing, covering the following issues: Why Open Data?, The Legal Landscape, Overview of Licenses, Issues to Consider, When providing open data, When using open data.
- Join here
- November 4-6 Open Core Summit Digital
- The Second Annual Global COSS (Commercial Open-Source) Ecosystem Conference: join this year from the comfort of your home, online! FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro will be speaking at this event.
- Register here for free
- November 12-13 Open Source Strategy Forum
- Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
- Register here
- November 16-18 CB Insights Future of Fintech
- With financial services bracing for uncertain times, forecasts of a recession and a drop in funding, the Future of Fintech will address today’s most pressing challenges and identify what’s next for the industry.
- Register Here
- November 17 FinJS at Home
- Speakers include FINOS vice-chair Kim Prado (RBC), Colin Eberhardt (Scott Logic), and representatives from FINOS members Adaptive and Openfin. View the full speaker lineup at www.finjs.io.
- Register here
Have a great week and please contact me at james@finos.org if you have any questions and especially if you would like to present at a future FINOS virtual meetup.
