Panel Discussion: Collaborating on a Model and... Vijayesh Chandel & Elaine Fraser & Sailesh Pandey
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 09/10/2021

Panel Discussion: Collaborating on a Model and Data Standard - Vijayesh Chandel & Elaine Fraser, Goldman Sachs & Sailesh Pandey, Nomura

FINOS and Legend facilitated collaboration on a model for Currency reference data, with different companies in the financial industry coming together to discuss requirements, current issues around sourcing what is needed for trading and standardising the business information.

A draft model was created and populated with an agreed ‘base’ list of currencies: starting from the ISO standard, enriching this with the issuing country and enhancing it for trading currencies not recognised in ISO (e.g. for ‘offshore’ trading).

We will show how this collaboration was achieved, describe the current state of the model and currency list, then cover the next steps of allowing access to the list via the model.