“Financial services” and “open source technology” might seem diametrically opposed. After all, how are institutions supposed to work together when there are decades of legacy technology systems to wade through and books of regulations to follow?

However, several entrepreneurs and financial services executives believe an interconnected industry is possible. Four of them met to speak at the Benzinga Fintech Summit in San Francisco last month to discuss how the finance industry can learn to open up a little in a panel titled "Building A Financial Services Ecosystem: How To Best Integrate Data & Tools."

Photo: Gabriele Columbro, executive director of the Symphony Software Foundation and Andy Ambrose, CEO of LiveOak Technologies sit on the Collaboration Tools panel at the Benzinga Fintech Summit.