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Our inaugural Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) in Toronto brought together over 300 technologists, quants, compliance officers, and open-source advocates to map the future of collaborative development. The energy in the room proved what we’ve known for a while: open source in financial services has moved definitively from promise to proof.

As FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro noted in his opening remarks, "truly it's about building a more profitable, more resilient and faster innovating industry."

Here is a look back at the overarching themes, keynotes, and breakout sessions that dominated OSFF Toronto 2026..

(If you were not able to join us in person, all of the videos from the presentations can be found on the FINOS website here.)

Open Resource Broker (ORB) has officially joined the FINOS ecosystem. Contributed jointly by Morgan Stanley and Amazon Web Services (AWS) under the Apache 2.0 license, ORB represents a significant step forward in making compute capacity management more portable, automated, and sustainable for the financial services industry.

The Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project has established a new Steering Committee to guide the next phase of development, strengthen cross-industry governance, and support growing adoption across financial services.

Dive into a broad update on FDC3, the open standard for interoperability between applications on financial desktops, with a video of the recent General Meeting held in March 2026.

After a year of research and deliberation by the FINOS Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) with FINOS Staff and Governing Board input, a new Project Lifecycle is being rolled out for projects.

Retail banking has invested heavily in digital platforms over the past two decades. Core modernisation, channel digitisation, cloud migration, and API enablement have all delivered visible improvements, particularly at the customer interface.

Across every bank, you can feel the same tension: we have modern technology everywhere, yet the information behind it still lives in silos. The front end looks digital, but the plumbing underneath remains stitched together from systems that were never designed to talk. Each department guards its own data, its own definitions, and its own language. What should be a simple movement of information often turns into a slow relay from one application to another.

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