Financial Team

Status: Active

Chairs: Zulijun

Mission & What We Do

 * Coordinate with users, service providers and developers to identify and fill the gaps for OpenStack adoptions in financial industry.

Scope

 * Organize technical research teams to define the use cases for financial industry.
 * Promote technical reference architecture (RA), e.g. financial cloud management models, financial cloud network architecture, financial cloud security architecture, etc
 * Develop blueprint for financial cloud platform capabilities, identify the functional gaps, submit the requirement to the Open Source community for development and track the development progress
 * Share success story for use cases, experiences of implementation practice, and best practices in the finance industry.

Organization Structure
The Financial Team is open to all members from financial institutions such as banks, securities agencies and insurance companies over the world, including the financial IT service providers and financial scientific research institutes.

Based on the recommendations from the foundation, a chairperson will be assigned as the overall coordinator and leader of the Financial Team. He/she will be responsible for the program charter, calling for committee meeting and making key decision announcement.

The Financial Team consists of several sub Working Group in specific domains. Currently the planned working groups includes:
 * 1) Requirement definition subWG, which identify gaps when using OpenStack to build financial clouds
 * 2) Case collection subWG, which collect financial cloud user stories and promote successful case sharing
 * 3) Financial cloud Network Reference Architecture  subWG, which focus on SDN-based financial cloud network solutions

News of Financial Team
Get involved with the OpenStack Community Financial Services Team

OpenStack Summit Sydney Spotlights Open Infrastructure Integration - China UnionPay Launches OpenStack Community Financial Services Team

How to join us
If you want to join Financial Team, please send an email to zulijun@unionpay.com(carbon copy to openstack@foxmail.com) with the following details describing your organization's OpenStack applications, financial industry relevance, contact information, etc.

Organization/Institution Name:

Address:

Organization representative:

Organization website:

Organization Introduction: 

OpenStack Applications:   

Areas of concern: <1. Financial network> <2. Advanced storage technology> <3. Container integration> <4. Edge computing>

Would you like to participate in existing sub WG or create a new sub WG? 

Team Meeting
Date/Time: Monday, 0600 UTC (1400PM China Beijing time) IRC channel: We are currently meeting using WeChat conference call. Meeting Notes Archives: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Financial_Team_Minutes

Mail List
Subscribe to the User Committee Mailing List Please add [Financial] tag in the subject line when sending messages to the User Committee Mailing List

Priorities for Current Cycle

 * Recruiting members, welcome to join!!!
 * We are planning for China Bimodal Operation User Conference on January 1, 2017 in Beijing, more information.
 * We are planning for a meeting at OpenStack Vancouver Summit 2018, stay tuned!
 * We held a kick-off meeting at OpenStack Sydney Summit 2017.


 * Organize Sub WG to launch joint technical research
 * 1) Identify 20+ gaps when using OpenStack to build financial clouds
 * 2) Abstract  2 financial cloud user stories and promote successful case sharing
 * 3) Research on financial cloud network reference architectures (RAs)

OpenStack Technical Papers and Documents

 * 中国银联与上海银行 - SDN下一代金融云网络联合研究与应用实践
 * UnionPay's Financial Cloud Achieves "Five High" Production Requirements Using OpenStack

Other References 其他参考资料

 * 开源软件成熟度评测报告 | Open Source Software Maturity Analysis
 * JSON 组件 | JSON
 * 分布式消息中间件 | Message Queue
 * 区块链成熟度评测报告 | Blockchain Analysis

'We need volunteers to help translating the documents from Chinese to English. If you are interested, please contact us! (zulijun@unionpay.com, wei.w.hu@intel.com)'