Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium
What Is It?
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.
What are the Benefits?
Use Cases
The design of FDC3 is based on a set of foundational interoperability use-cases, validated by firms across the industry.
This ensures the standard meets the real-world needs of the financial industry, not just assumptions.
The Standard
The FDC3 standard consists of five main parts...
Who is Using FDC3?
The FDC3 standards are created and used by leading organizations across the financial industry. For more detail on who's using FDC3, developer tools, training and examples see the community page.
FDC3 Conformance
FDC3 has a conformance framework that works to ensure compatibility with the standard.
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 | BlackRock's Aladdin (currently unpublished) Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 30th September 2024 | |
| BMO X 9.0.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification in October 2025. | |
| Connectifi v1.1.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 26th April 2023 | |
 | FDC3 Sail 1.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 6th December 2022 | |
| OpenFin - 31.111.74.3 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 22nd February 2023 | OpenFin - 32.114.76.14 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 19th October 2023 HERE Enterprise Browser 9.0.1 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 5th December 2025 |
| Finsemble v8.3.0-beta.3 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 2nd December 2022 Glue42 Enterprise v3.17.0 / Glue FDC3 v2.6.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 2nd December 2022 Glue42 Core+ v1.0 Browser Extension v1.4 / Glue FDC3 v2.6.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 6th December 2022 Glue42 Core v2.6.1 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 13th March 2023 | Finsemble Version 8.9.0-beta.2 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 9th June 2023 Glue42 Enterprise v3.20.0.19 / Glue FDC3 v3.2.2 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 9th June 2023 Glue42 Core+ v1.5.5 / Glue FDC3 v3.2.2 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 9th June 2023 Glue42 Core (@glue42/web-platform - v1.26.1, @glue42/web - v2.21.0, @glue42/fdc3 - v3.2.2) Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 9th June 2023 |
| Morgan Stanley ComposeUI version alpha-5 Certified Conformant With FDC3 2.0 Specification on 30th September 2024 |
FDC3 Training and Certification
Introduction to FDC3 (LFEL1000)
This FREE entry-level course is designed for business technologists who are looking to adopt application interoperability within their technology landscape and for developers who want to build interoperable applications using the FDC3 Standard.
MOREDeveloping Solutions with FDC3 (LFD237)
This course is designed for developers who are looking to build interoperable applications using the FDC3 standard, as well as community participants who provide FDC3 technology and services.
LFD237 is priced at $299 but free seats are available to FINOS members.
MOREFDC3 Certified Practitioner (FCFP)
The FCFP is a professional certification designed for technical business analysts, software developers and FDC3 implementers in the finance, insurance, banking, and investment industries.
FCFP is priced at $250 but free seats are available to FINOS members.
MOREGet Involved
Join the General List to stay up to date with the project.
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Collaborate with the Community
Most FDC3 collaboration takes place in the FDC3 GitHub repository, where you can raise issues, submit pull requests and view meeting minutes.
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Working Groups
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If you're interested in discussing business workflows and other use cases that you can implementation with FDC3, you can join the Use Cases & Workflows Discussion Group
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If you're interested in Desktop Agent bridging, you can join their next Discussion Group call
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If you're implementing a Desktop Agent in a Web Browser and interested in helping define standards for doing so, you can join the FDC3 for Web Browsers Discussion Group
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Participate in the Standard's ideation
The Standard Working Group meets once a month to shape the next version of the Standard: you can find meeting details in the FINOS Project Calendar.
If you'd like to formally enroll as a voting Standard participant, please use this link: fdc3-participants+subscribe@finos.org to send a templated email email to join the enrolled voting participants group. Please note that standard participants are bound to the provisions as described in the FDC3 Governance document.
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Are you using FDC3?
If you are an existing user of the FDC3 Standard, we would love to hear from you: just email the FDC3 General List with details about how you are using it.
We'd also like to list you as a user on our Community page, you can directly send a pull request or contact us (particularly if you need help with legal evaluation of your logo).
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General Meeting
- You can also attend the quarterly FDC3 General Meeting: you can find meeting details in the FINOS Project Calendar.