Gem Soup’s mission is to create the leading community of FpML software developers and users, provide the best FpML tools, and thereby add extraordinary value to the derivatives industry.

The value principle that underlies Gem Soup is the following: By sharing development of key enabling technologies, a cooperating community of FpML users will reduce the cost, effort, and risk of adopting FpML industry-wide. Gem Soup exists to help firms capture that value.

Gem Soup’s name is based on the famous trading floor Legend about the three hungry investment bankers who structured a delectable potage by adding a gem to a cauldron of boiling water and persuading investors to provide the few missing ingredients.

Please read more in this section about the Legend of the Gem Soup (which inspired our name), Commentaries about how the legend relates to our community source model, about the People behind Gem Soup, about other Services provided by Gem Soup, and about how to Contact Us. And please explore the rest of our site to learn more about our flexible Products, our innovative community source Model, our Membership (and how to become one), and about recent News.