Morgan Stanley is an active participant in the open source community. Firm employees contribute to and make use of open source projects. Open source is about more than code; contributing to communities requires inclusive collaboration.
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FDC3 is an open standard for applications on financial desktop to interoperate and exchange data with each other. Users benefit from a more joined-up experience, which reduces the “friction” in getting tasks done. Applications can launch each other, respond to activity in other apps and request functionality from each other.
CALM aims to move architecture beyond static diagrams by providing a common language that both humans and machines can understand, ensuring that architectural decisions are consistently applied and easily auditable.
TraderX is a Sample Trading Application, designed to be a distributed reference application in the financial services domain which can serve as a starting point for experimentation with various techniques and other open source projects.
The AI Readiness Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a space to address AI-related challenges that are common to all members.
AI, especially Generative AI, is reshaping financial services, enhancing products, client interactions, and productivity. However, challenges like hallucinations and model unpredictability make safe deployment complex. Rapid advancements require flexible governance.
The purpose of the Open Source Readiness (OSR) Special Interest Group (SIG) is to accelerate financial services firms’ journeys toward open source readiness. The concrete goals of the SIG are to 1) advance the readiness of participants’ firms and 2) to provide guidance for the broader industry in the form of white papers, presentations, and blog posts.
Testplan is a Python package that can start a local live environment, setup mocks, connections to services and run tests against these.
desktopJS is a common API across multiple HTML5 containers. By programming to a common API, applications can target multiple HTML5 containers without change.
Morgan Stanley is a primary contributor and maintainer of the Morphir framework. This unique tool facilitates elements of automation and conversion that were previously unavailable in the field of finance-tech.
a language, embedded compiler, and runtime for efficient dynamic expression evaluation, data storage and analysis
The modern-cpp-kafka API is a layer of C++ wrapper based on librdkafka (the C part only), with high quality, but more friendly to users.
Morgan Stanley is proud to work with the following foundations.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure. We bring together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and run the largest open source developer conferences. CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.
The Linux Foundation provides a neutral, trusted hub for developers and organizations to code, manage, and scale open technology projects and ecosystems.
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is an independent 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization whose purpose is to accelerate collaboration and innovation in financial services through the adoption of open source software, standards and best practices.
The OpenSSF is a cross-industry organization that brings together the industry’s most important open source security initiatives and the individuals and companies that support them. The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all.
