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May 2014

Allevo Newsletter

A Quick Look into Mobile Payments

In developing countries, mobile payment solutions have been deployed as a means of extending financial services to the community known as the "unbanked" or "underbanked," which is estimated to be as much as 50% of the world's adult population.

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Open Source (Software) Pitfall

Many people claim that open source is like the Wild West, because everything is out in the open therefore anything is possible due to the lack of rules and governance. All the buzzwords revolving around open source, like open, transparent, free and collaboration often create an image of an unprotected and chaotic workspace, with hackers trying to take advantage at every turn. In this dark scenario, could a highly procedural and regulated institution like a big corporation or bank have an open source policy in place?

FinTP

FINkers United for Dummies continued

It’s time to see how you can actually work in the community. For those of you who want to amaze us with your pieces of code, here are some answers to the questions you may have.

First of all, where can I find the code?
You can either access it on fintp.org/Projects or directly on github.com/FinTP. The code is organized in projects. Before starting anything, it might help you to consult the Readme file (at least, it will help you set up your development environment) or just talk to our software maintainer. The dedicated wiki pages include the corresponding documentation.

Reminder: FINkers United® is an open source community for all financial thinkers’ enthusiasts – from IT developers to financial experts – gathered around the FinTP® Project.
Where does the name come from? Well, from financial thinkers united.