Use Cases and Workflows Discussion Group - 5th September 2024

[mistryvinay]

Group overview

Newly rebranded "Use Cases and Workflows" discussion group for FDC3, replacing "Context Data and Intents".

The remit of this discussion group is:

• talking about existing or potential financial use-cases
• unlocking the power of standardisation
• discussing new ways to collaborate either inside the organisation or firm-to-firm
• sharing expert insights about how to make the most out of FDC3
• and collaborating to shaping the future of financial workflows.

Relevant issue tags

Current open issues that relate to the discussion group:

Specific issues will also be tagged with the labels:

Meeting Date

Thursday 5 September 2024 - 9am (US eastern timezone EST) / 2pm (London, BST)

Zoom info

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Agenda

• Convene & roll call, review meeting notices (5mins)
• Review action items from previous meeting (5mins)
  • Use Cases and Workflows Discussion Group - 1st August 2024 #1299
• Discussion of open issues (10mins)
  • NatWest Group FDC3 Use Case Exploration #1164
  • Understanding the FDC3 End-User Personas #1173
  • Review proposals for types related to persona workflows the list below (20 mins)
    • FDC3 Trader Persona #1183
    • FDC3 Wealth Manager Persona #1218
    • FDC3 Business Analyst Persona #1219
    • FDC3 Interdealer Broker Persona #1220
    • FDC3 Client Services Persona #1221
    • FDC3 Operations Persona #1222
    • FDC3 Portfolio Manager Persona #1223
    • FDC3 Research Analyst Persona #1224
• AOB & Adjourn (5mins)

Minutes

• Roll call and introduction for Use Cases and Workflows Discussion Group
• Walk through of previous exercise in identifying FDC3 end user personas
  • Understanding the FDC3 End-User Personas #1173
• Drill down on FDC3 Trader Persona #1183
  • Review of proposed types listed here
  • @madeleine raised concern with usage of CreateOrder and how it could be perceived to created an actual order as opposed to sharing context to another application/system (e.g. OMS).
  • FDC3 is focused around interop and not having to type things in twice
  • @kriswest mentioned intention was to help you jump off into a form for creating an order locally that you'd then submit to another system, somewhere else.
  • @mjkingnyc when creating orders from a buy side PM to a buyside trader, seen as an internal function. When passing orders between firms, FIX is the default infrastructure that would be used.
  • @kriswest covered the standard prefixes which are part of the standard.
  • Updated the proposal to StartOrder to avoid any confusion
• Partnering with FIX Community to better understand workflows
  • @madeleine mentioned collaborative work with FIX community and possible ways of including FIX identifiers within FDC3 context objects.
    • Enabling use-cases like tracking order progress within external systems.
    • @kriswest many objects have the ability to reference multiple ID's. We could look to support a FIX ID.
• ViewRisk Context Type Proposal
  • Explored what would be required to support ViewRisk context type
  • @kriswest typical information for viewing risk on organization, whole portfolio, position, an instrument product.
  • @mjkingnyc lets view risk as a position. Because it's typically a single instrument. Or even in a complex derivatives world, it's represented by one thing.
  • @kriswest Position is one of the existing standard types, There is a ticket open to enhance position, it's essentially defined by an instrument. Like all context types it has an ID field which can point to one or more identifiers.
• ViewBlockTrades and ViewLiquidity Context Type Proposals
  • @mjkingnyc showed interest in reviewing the requirements to build context types for ViewBlockTrades and ViewLiquidity
• Walkthrough of generating context pages from schema files
  • @robmoffat referenced this work and the set of instructions on how to submit new types to the FDC3 project
  • @kriswest @mistryvinay discuss what's remaining for automation of documentation before sharing with community.

Action Items

• @mjkingnyc explore definition of Context type for ViewBlockTrades and ViewLiquidity
• @yeahjim1 share Context proposals for FDC3 Trader Persona with ISV's to gauge feedback and interest.
• @pvoznyuk review CDM model https://cdm.finos.org/
• @robmoffat review the CDM object builder https://github.com/finos/cdm-object-builder
• @unqorkRules schedule demo of how CDM models are used within Unqork

Untracked attendees

Full name	Affiliation	GitHub username

[mistryvinay]

Vinay Mistry / Symphony 🎵

[robmoffat]

Rob Moffat / FINOS 📦

[yeahjim1]

Jim Bunting / interop

[mjkingnyc]

Mike King/ S3 Partners

[kriswest]

Kris West / interop.io 🚀

[pvoznyuk]

Pavlo Vozniuk / RBC CM