Recent acquisitions of open source companies by large and established corporate technology vendors signal that the technology is maturing into mainstream enterprise play. Organisations like the Open Bank Project and Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) have come about with the aim of pioneering open source adoption by highlighting the benefits of collaboration within the sector. But over the course of the last few years, that thinking has begun to change. Historically, banks have been hesitant to adopt open source software. To reduce the risk of significant disruption, financial services firms require the right technology infrastructure to be agile and responsive to potential changes. In a post-Brexit world, the industry is facing regulatory uncertainty at a whole different scale, with banking executives having to understand the implications of different scenarios, including no-deal. Kris Sharma, Finance Sector Lead at Canonical, explores the value of open source technologies in steering financial services through times of disruption.
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