Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure and Technology
ISLA
Open Data
Wednesday, February 8 • 5:00pm – 5:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor
Data is the life blood of many industries but it plays a vital role in the financial services and particularly capital markets world. As the industry drastically accelerates the pace of open collaboration, we will discuss how the industry is embracing open data collaboration to drive true industry wide standardisation.
Not only we’ll hear it from Goldman Sachs, maintainer of the Legend open source data modeling platform, but we’ll hear why established global industry bodies like ICMA, ISDA and ISLA have decided to open source their Common Domain Model, the global standard representing financial products and their lifecycle, into FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, the Linux Foundation project building open collaboration bridges across Wall Street, the City of London and the global financial industry.
Chris joined ISLA in February 2022 as a Senior Associate – Market Infrastructure & Technology within the Regulation, Digital & Market Practice group. In this role he is responsible for supporting the Association’s important work on development of securities lending products within the Common Domain Model (CDM). The CDM is a standard codified representation of transactions, events, agreements and processes, and is a key initiative to digitally transform the industry. Chris is also the chair of our CDM working group. Prior to ISLA, Chris held a role as a Software Engineer Specialist at FIS, with a track record of over 25 years of successful delivery in the financial services industry.
