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Man the a16z marketing machine is working hard unfortunately at cost of quality. For those interested in FS and open source today, especially through a capital

Man the a16z marketing machine is working hard unfortunately at cost of quality. For those interested in FS and open source today, especially through a capital markets lens check out: https://www.finos.org https://www.finos.org Lots of great projects, one I used recently and a favourite was this: https://github.com/finos/perspective https://github.com/finos/perspective

texodus 5y ago
I work on perspective, glad you dig it! We just released 1.0 this week after 4+ years of open-source-first development. Perspective was, in a previous life, a proprietary internal engine for Python/desktop applications at JPMC, that was ported and open-sourced to FINOS as a web assembly based browser component. Open sourcing perspective had a huge impact on the project, not just from the awesome community contributions and engagement and support from FINOS itself, but (as a huge surprise to me) the perspective project's visibility within our company.
- lifeisstillgood 5y ago
  >>> runtime mode allows ludicrously-sized datasets I think I am in love :-) This is what WebAssembly is supposed to for! Could it easily find the "how to contribute" if there is one please point me at it :-)
hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
I went to the finos website and looked at their list of repositories, and literally none of them looked like things I'd be interested in from a financial services/banking perspective. I saw a lot of very "high level infrastructure" repos for things like processing JSON, standardizing models, etc. The example you gave, Perspective, honestly looks like the most interesting of the ones I saw, but it's still a generic data visualization component. I contrast that with the Moov.io repos (full disclosure, I'm familiar with them though I haven't contributed), and they're actually nitty gritty details of dealing with the banking system (at least in the US), things like processing ACH files, wires, ISO 8583 (card network) messages, Image Cash Letter, watchlists needed for KYC and OFAC checks, etc.: https://github.com/moov-io https://github.com/moov-io TBH it just sounds like a very apples-to-oranges comparison.
- carnitine 5y ago
  As they said FinOS is from a capital markets perspective. Anything at a ‘nitty-gritty’ level is going to be proprietary for competition purposes.
tixocloud 5y ago
Thanks for the sharing the plug to finos. We’ve been developing capital markets solutions and looking for a place to contribute our engineering work.

texodus 5y ago

I work on perspective, glad you dig it! We just released 1.0 this week after 4+ years of open-source-first development. Perspective was, in a previous life, a proprietary internal engine for Python/desktop applications at JPMC, that was ported and open-sourced to FINOS as a web assembly based browser component. Open sourcing perspective had a huge impact on the project, not just from the awesome community contributions and engagement and support from FINOS itself, but (as a huge surprise to me) the perspective project's visibility within our company.

lifeisstillgood 5y ago
>>> runtime mode allows ludicrously-sized datasets I think I am in love :-) This is what WebAssembly is supposed to for! Could it easily find the "how to contribute" if there is one please point me at it :-)

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago

I went to the finos website and looked at their list of repositories, and literally none of them looked like things I'd be interested in from a financial services/banking perspective. I saw a lot of very "high level infrastructure" repos for things like processing JSON, standardizing models, etc. The example you gave, Perspective, honestly looks like the most interesting of the ones I saw, but it's still a generic data visualization component. I contrast that with the Moov.io repos (full disclosure, I'm familiar with them though I haven't contributed), and they're actually nitty gritty details of dealing with the banking system (at least in the US), things like processing ACH files, wires, ISO 8583 (card network) messages, Image Cash Letter, watchlists needed for KYC and OFAC checks, etc.: https://github.com/moov-io https://github.com/moov-io TBH it just sounds like a very apples-to-oranges comparison.

carnitine 5y ago
As they said FinOS is from a capital markets perspective. Anything at a ‘nitty-gritty’ level is going to be proprietary for competition purposes.

tixocloud 5y ago

Thanks for the sharing the plug to finos. We’ve been developing capital markets solutions and looking for a place to contribute our engineering work.