OSFF London 2025 Videos

The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is the premier event bringing together leaders and technologists across financial services and the open-source ecosystem. This conference is uniquely designed to enable partnerships, advance talent development and showcase open technologies enabling the financial industry to scale, modernize, and enhance profitability.

KEYNOTE VIDEOS

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Welcome + Opening Remarks - Gabriele Columbro

Welcome + Opening Remarks - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

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FINOS' New Horizon: From Readiness to ROI - Madeleine Dassule

FINOS' New Horizon: From Readiness to ROI - Madeleine Dassule, Chair, FINOS GB & Independent Advisor (Retired Partner, Chief Information Officer, Wellington Management)

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The Regulated Era of Open Source - Gabriele Columbro

The Regulated Era of Open Source - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

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The CRA and Linux: What it Means for Us - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow, Linux Foundation

With the ratification of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Europe, there has been a lot of misunderstanding of what this means for Linux developers, Linux users, and manufacturers of devices with Linux inside of them. This talk will attempt to provide a rough understanding of the issues involved, who is affected, and what this means for everyone in our ecosystem.

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The Open Source Era of Regulatory Compliance - Gabriele Columbro & Special Guests

Introduction and Overview of Open Source Regulation. Business and Tech Risk Regulation in Open Source. AI Governance Framework Introduction. Challenges and Opportunities in AI Adoption. Common Cloud Controls and AI Governance Collaboration. Business Aligned Regulation and CDM. Climate and Sustainability in Open Source.

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Sustainability Reporting Challenges and Opportunities: An EU Policy Perspective Patrick de Cambourg

Types of Regulations. Importance of Data Quality. Transparency and Standards. Building a Reliable Ecosystem. Challenges and Encouragement.

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An Open Source AI Powered Financial Industry - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS

Introduction and AI Governance Overview. The Rise of Open Source in AI. Open Source AI in the Linux Foundation. AI Ecosystem Components. Getting Involved in Open Source AI.

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FinOps Foundation and FOCUS™: Powering Business Value Through Open Standards - Natalie Daley, Director - Global Head of Cloud Economics & FinOps, HSBC

As cloud and technology usage expands, organizations face growing pressure to manage technology spend with clarity and control. FinOps—an operational framework and cultural practice developed by the open-source FinOps community—is helping teams maximize the business value of investments across Cloud and now other scopes of technology spend, including SaaS, Licenses, Data Center and AI.

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From Vibe to Production: Taming AI for Fearless Development - Dedy Kredo

From Vibe to Production: Taming AI for Fearless Development - Dedy Kredo, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Qodo Welcome to the era of "vibe coding." With AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code fueling unprecedented development speed, we're generating more code, faster than ever. But this velocity introduces a critical risk: Are we sacrificing quality for speed? How do we move beyond the "it just works" feeling of vibe coding to build robust, production-grade software that we can ship with confidence? This talk confronts the core challenge of the AI-driven development lifecycle: bridging the gap between rapid, AI-generated drafts and reliable, maintainable code. We will explore how to instill rigor into this new workflow without losing momentum. Discover how innovative open-source tools like PR-Agent and Qodo Cover are essential for this new landscape. Learn how they empower developers to automatically scale review processes, enforce standards, and uncover critical edge cases that AI might miss.

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Closing Remarks - Gabriele Columbro

OSFF London Closing Remarks - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

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From Vision to Reality: Unlocking Open Source Solutions to Finance’s Biggest Challenges - Bhupesh Vora

FINOS' Open Source Journey. The Importance of Open Standards. AI and Open Source in Financial Services. FINOS' Future Goals and Vision. Key Focus Areas for FINOS. Community Involvement and ROI. Personal Belief in Open Source.

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Developer Call to Action - Kim Prado

Developer Call to Action. Collaboration and Leadership Opportunities. Advancing Skills and Innovation. Community Participation and Training. Acknowledging Contributors and Ambassadors. Final Thoughts and Personal Reflections.

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FINOS Community + Member Awards - Kim Prado & Gabriele Columbro

Breaking the Status Quo Award. FINOS Champion Award. Coaching Awards. Adoption Achiever Award. Outstanding Leadership Award. Most Active Individual Award. Trailblazer Award.

OSFF London Keynote Slides

Follow along with all of the action at OSFF London with the slides from the keynote presentations.

An Open Source AI Powered Industry

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Leveraging Modern Agentic AI Platforms for Financial Services Automation & Innovation - Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA

This presentation will highlight the potential of Agentic AI to revolutionize financial services, including task automation, enhanced data analysis, and improved decision making. Relevant open source tools and models will be presented and their application in financial systems will be demonstrated.

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Practical Use of AI Agents in Finance With Example - Ranadip Chatterjee, Google

Gen AI agents and agentic architectures are the talk of the day. But, in practice, how do we get real business benefits from this hyped tech? Here we go through a practical example in Financial Services on how agents can be used for real business benefits. Includes a demo of a real world usecase.

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AI Adoption: A Human Problem - Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic

This talk will take a broad look at the current challenges surrounding AI adoption and explore what we as both people and organisations need to do to become truly AI-ready. We’ll also highlight the latest efforts from FINOS, including the release of the AI Governance Framework v1, a significant milestone on the journey to successful AI adoption.

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Amplify AI Productivity and Trust With Morphir - Attila Mihaly, Morgan Stanley

AI-powered code generation holds great promise, but how can we ensure correctness, transparency, and trust—especially in financial software? This session explores how Morphir, an open-source framework for domain modeling and business logic, integrates with AI to boost productivity while maintaining rigor.

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openGRIS: An Open Standard for Grid Resource Scheduling in Financial Systems - Ritesh Bansal, Citi

The proposed openGRIS system aims to act as a "router" for compute tasks, intelligently directing them to the most suitable resources based on user-defined criteria. This includes considerations like cost, time of day, and required hardware features (e.g., GPUs). The system is envisioned to support both long-running simulations on thousands of cores and on-demand access for interactive tasks like Jupyter notebooks.

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Tackling Tech Debt at Financial Industry Scale - Jonathan Schneider, Moderne & Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley

The software developed in the Financial Services Industry is made up of tens of thousands of source code repos, billions of lines of code, and a heavy dependency on open source libraries and components. Balancing business delivery with code maintenance and modernization is already a major challenge, and with the pace of change in the open source ecosystem and threat landscape, this is accelerating rapidly. Learn more about a new generation of technology which can help us tackle this problem at scale, and learn how we, through our FINOS community, can work on these challenges together to fundamentally change how we deal with code modernization.

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Adopting AI Agents as a Tool for Everyone - Adewalei Abati , Block

In this talk, we’ll explore how AI agents can be seamlessly integrated into existing workflows, helping finance professionals and teams work faster, reduce repetitive tasks, surface insights instantly, and support better decision-making—without replacing human expertise. Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a way to plug into existing financial services and platforms - automating your entire workflow.

Guarding the Vaults

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Open Source Maturity - OSS Value Creation Through Regulatory Compliance - Marcel Scholze & Katharina Grauf, PwC GmbH Germany

This talk will introduce an Open Source Maturity Model designed to align the value creation potential of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) with the regulatory demands of the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), alongside industry standards.

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Trust but Verify: Fixing Broken Licensing Compliance in SBOMs - Abdullah Garcia, J.P. Morgan

Attendees will gain insights into best practices for verifying SBOM data, mitigating legal and security risks, and improving compliance workflows. Join me to learn why an SBOM without integrity verification is meaningless—and how to fix it.

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Open Source Software as a Balance Sheet: Using AI to Quantify the ROI of Open Source Security - Tobias Heldt & Josh Taboga, XOR

Despite millions invested in cybersecurity tools, financial institutions struggle to understand, measure and mitigate their open source risk exposure, leaving them vulnerable and uncertain about ROI to invest in Open Source. Open Source as a Balance Sheet empowers OSPOs, cybersecurity, and financial leaders to turn open source from an unknown liability into quantifiable, strategic financial assets.

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Beyond Threat Modelling: Formal Verification for Cloud Native Infrastructure - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & Luca Viganò, King's College London

In this talk, we will: Highlight the limits of traditional threat modelling in providing security guarantees, Explain how formal methods can verify cloud native systems and deliver provable security guarantees, Guide the audience through assessing unknown threats and show how standards like FINOS Common Cloud Controls mitigate both known and unknown threats.

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High-Performance Software Security and Memory Safety - Jon Bauman, Rust Foundation

The sheer volume of existing C++ code and the value it represents makes rewriting it all infeasible on a timescale less than several decades, so large C++ codebases need to invest in high-performance interoperability to mitigate risk and potentially to comply with upcoming regulatory mandates. This talk will outline the current state of this strategy and the potential for innovation which can bring greater safety to performance-critical applications within finance and beyond.

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Security Superpowers With eBPF and Tetragon - Liz Rice, Isovalent at Cisco

eBPF is a technology that allows dynamic, bespoke programs to change the way the kernel behaves. This talk introduces eBPF and shows how the Tetragon open source project applies it to provide powerful runtime security capabilities that can detect and even prevent malicious activities such as suspicious file access, network connections, and privilege escalation, with very low overhead. In the financial sector, security is paramount, and this talk will explore the likely evolution for standardized security tooling based on eBPF and Tetragon.

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Breaking Barriers: Secure & Compliant CI/CD in Highly Regulated Industries - Bryan Ross, GitLab & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane

This joint session from GitLab and ControlPlane explores how financial institutions can leverage GitOps and modern CI/CD pipelines to overcome regulatory roadblocks without sacrificing speed or security. The presenters will demonstrate practical approaches to securing the software supply chain in highly regulated environments, focusing on build integrity, artifact verification, and policy-driven deployments. Through real-world financial services case studies, they'll showcase how automation can transform compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.

Mutualizing Risk & Compliance in the Open

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DORA: How To Balance Compliance With Innovation - Monica Sasso, Red Hat

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a game-changer for the EU financial services industry, establishing uniform ICT risk management, incident reporting, and third-party risk regulations. Unlike previous sector-specific frameworks, DORA mandates a horizontal implementation across entire firms, ensuring a ‘Minimum Viable Bank’—continuity of critical services amid disruption.

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K8s vs. Agent Smith: Exploding GPUs and the AI Governance Framework - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane

In a broad and detailed appraisal of end-to-end AI security for FINOS members we examine how to run LLM agent workloads on Kubernetes using the AI Readiness Governance Framework — without getting lost in the Matrix..

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Cloud Compliance vs. Cost Efficiency: Can Fintech Have Both? - Kate Obiidykhata, Percona

Regulated fintech organizations must ensure compliance with stringent data regulations while maintaining cost efficiency in the cloud. However, compliance-driven choices—such as data residency requirements, encryption mandates, and audit logging—can lead to hidden costs, especially in cloud storage and database management.

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Taming Multi-Cloud Security: Progress on Common Cloud Controls - Michael Lysaght & Sonali Mendis

Join two project maintainers of the Common Cloud Controls (CCC) project as they showcase how it streamlines the creation of threat-informed controls and integrates them into reusable assets via the Compliant Financial Infrastructure (CFI) project. This session will provide insights into building scalable, open-source security controls that help financial institutions accelerate cloud adoption while maintaining regulatory compliance.

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CALM - Architecture Lifecycle Management - Konadu Appiah & Joseph Brown-Pobee, Turntabl.io

Lightning talk showcasing an architects persona using CALM (Common Architecture Language Model). CALM enables software architects to define, validate, and visualize system architectures in a standardized, machine-readable format, bridging the gap between architectural intent and implementation.

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Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code - James Gough, Morgan Stanley

In this session, you will learn how Architecture as Code with CALM, an open-source initiative from FINOS, provides a structured approach to defining Patterns and Architectures that incorporate security and resilience from the start. You will see how CALM CLI can generate and validate architectures against predefined patterns, ensuring security compliance without compromising developer experience.

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Learning To Trust Again: How Open Source Can Be Leveraged in Highly Regulated Industr... Liam Follin

In the highly regulated world of financial services, trust is paramount. This talk explores how internal teams can trust open-source software (OSS) to provide a compliant financial infrastructure, using romantic comedies as analogies. Just as trust in relationships is built over time, so too is trust in technology, especially where compliance, security, and risk management are critical.

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The Rise of Internal Forks: How AI Is Reshaping Code Integration and Its Risks To the Financial Serv Daniel Forsgren

As financial institutions accelerate their digital transformation, the integration of third-party code has become a necessity—but also a hidden risk. The rise of AI-assisted development is increasing the prevalence of internal forks, where modified external code becomes unmanaged and invisible to traditional security and compliance processes. In a highly regulated industry like financial services, these forks pose significant challenges, including security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and technical debt that can impact operational resilience. This session will explore how AI is reshaping software integration, why financial firms must proactively address internal forks, and how modern Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools can provide much-needed visibility and control. Learn how to leverage AI-driven development while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and risk management.

Supercharge Your Open Source Journey

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Open Source in Finance: Maintaining the New Strategic Stack - James McLeod, NatWest Group

This talk explores how projects like Git Proxy, FDC3, the Common Domain Model, Common Cloud Controls, and AI Readiness are building momentum across the industry and how they increasingly rely on each other. What’s emerging is a shared, collaborative infrastructure built by and for the financial services industry.

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Navigating Challenges in Open Source and InnerSource Management: From Brea... Carlos Navarro Segarra

Join us for an engaging lightning session that will delve into the complex challenges of managing Open Source and InnerSource initiatives within a highly regulated landscape. We will examine how to establish effective health assessment criteria that encompass maturity, success, and adoption metrics.

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Strengthening Open Source Engagement: Recognising and Rewarding Contr... Neil McGonigle & John Kelly

Open source thrives on engagement, yet sustaining long-term contributor involvement remains a challenge—especially within large companies. In this talk, we’ll share how we built a strong internal open source community by recognising and rewarding contributors, reinforcing engagement, and fostering a culture of participation. We’ll walk through the strategies we implemented, from career growth opportunities to conference travel incentives, and the use of gamification.

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Opening the Gate: How GitProxy Is Accelerating Open Source Contribu... Thomas Cooper & Dávid Serfőző

In this session, you’ll hear from two organizations: one just beginning to explore GitProxy and another actively maintaining it. Together, they’ll share share perspectives on the value GitProxy offers, and how multiple banks and tech firms have contributed features, improved security workflows, and shaped a tool that makes open source contribution not only possible, but efficient, auditable, and scalable.

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Fireside Chat: Breaking Barriers - How Financial Institutions Shift f... Nick Veenhof & James McLeod

James McLeod and Nick Veenhof will discuss pathways for financial institutions to actively contribute to open source. They will explore effective OSPO strategies and innovative approaches such as co-creating open source software together. This conversation will reveal practical methods for financial organizations to overcome traditional barriers, manage regulatory concerns, and build meaningful participation in open source communities.

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The State of Open Source in Financial Services in the UK - Sam Marland, Red Hat

Open source is transforming the financial services landscape in the UK, from accelerating innovation to enhancing regulatory compliance and reducing vendor lock-in. This talk explores the current state of open source adoption across banks, fintechs, and regulatory bodies, highlighting key trends, successful use cases, and emerging challenges. We’ll touch on the role of open collaboration, the importance of community governance, and how UK institutions are balancing openness with security and compliance. Whether you’re a developer, a decision-maker, or simply curious about the open source shift, this session offers a snapshot of where the industry stands—and where it’s headed.

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What Happens When Part of a Financial Transaction Fails Mid-flight—After Charging a C... Rob Holland

In this 15-minute talk and live demo, we'll walk through how small failures in financial systems can lead to big inconsistencies—and how Durable Execution helps teams prevent them. We'll simulate a real transaction system under failure conditions and you'll observe how a Durable Execution platform enables the application to overcome them and complete successfully—despite intermittent failures, service outages, and even a crash of the application itself.

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From Cloud Foundry to Cloud-Native: Empower Application Deploym... Paula Kennedy & Derik Evangelista

In this talk, we will demonstrate how Kratix can be used to replicate—and surpass—the experience of deploying applications to the cloud. We’ll explore how Kratix, combined with Shipwright, enables developers to build and deploy applications from source or as pre-built container images with ease. You'll learn how Shipwright supports a variety of build strategies and tools, offering the flexibility to use custom inputs while maintaining a streamlined workflow.

The Business Case for Open Source

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Open Eyes, Open Source: Mission-critical Trade Surveill... Michael Gavronsky & Sunjay-Kumar Tripathi

We plan to present and demonstrate how Timebase was leveraged in the following case studies • Mission critical trade surveillance solution that addresses bank’s trading and regulatory compliance • Demo that examines a market manipulation event to showcase Timebase out of the box capabilities in solving market surveillance challenges

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Open Source for Climate Risk: Leveraging OS-Climate’s PhysRisk Libr... Elena de Toledo & Matt Sandoe

Meet OS-Climate’s PhysRisk library, an open, transparent, and auditable framework that integrates high-quality climate data with advanced risk modeling techniques. Participants will explore methodologies for evaluating physical climate risks under different climate scenarios across diverse sectors, learning how to integrate geospatial data, vulnerability models, and risk-scoring techniques into their risk assessments. Attendees will gain actionable insights into climate risk quantification and strategic risk management—leveraging open-source tools to build climate resilience across industries.

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Using Artificial Intelligence To Fight the Environmental Crisis - Richard Harmon & Steve Tebbe

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act represents a major regulatory milestone, embedding environmental sustainability into AI governance. It introduces principles for developing AI systems sustainably, mandates energy consumption logging for high-risk AI, and requires lifecycle environmental impact assessments. Future efforts must strengthen enforcement to ensure AI development aligns with global environmental goals.

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An Open-Source Data Platform for Financial Institutions - Marius Bogoevici, Red Hat

In this presentation we will introduce one of the foundational pieces of OS-Climate Data Commons: its data platform that provides its constituents - producers and consumers of data - with a toolbox for sharing datasets, as well as easily creating and sharing new datasets on the platform.

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TRAC D.A.P. – a Modern Approach To Structural Analytics and Regulat... Alex Frankl & Martin Traverse

TRAC D.A.P. – a FINOS project – offers a new approach. Built around a universal metadata model, the platform is self-describing and stateful, enabling users to: - Upload models and build complex deployments in minutes - Fully automate governance documentation - Self-serve with confidence, absent any change risk - Use the same resources for production and experimental models runs - Replicate any prior calculation with ease.

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Combatting Greenwashing Using AI Workflows and Agents - Oliver Cronk, Scott Logic Ltd

We'll cover: How AI can assist in parsing complex ESG reports and frameworks (Corporate Sustainability Reports, ESG Ratings, TNFD, GRI) Practical approaches to materiality assessment using AI Techniques for detecting subtle forms of greenwashing Real-world validation results from testing with major corporations Balancing AI automation with human expertise Open source architecture for community enhancement

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Learn How Open Source Is Powering Mainframe Modernization - Joe Winchester & Louisa Seers, IBM

Mainframe computers are old, mostly depicted with black and white photos of operators loading tape drives or else history boards telling of their use in the moon landings. Despite their age however, they remain the backbone of financial transactional IT, and are undergoing a revival powered by by a large stack of open source languages and packages. This talk will cover how the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project is at the forefront of this, bringing test tools like Galasa, Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ plugins from the Zowe project, ports of 300 tools like bash, curl, openssl to give a current linux environment. With languages like python, Java, node.js being on the platform, as well as the LinuxOn Z environment this is no longer your grandparent's machine. We'll show how open source is at the driving edge of bringing the platform into the 21st century, and also how the blend of open source and enterprise computing cope when they meet.

The Open Connective Tissue of Financial Services

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FDC3 for the Web: The Next Evolution in Financial Application Interoperability - Julianna Langston

FDC3 has revolutionized interoperability in financial services, but until now, its full potential has been limited to desktop containers. FDC3 2.2 changes that by bringing FDC3 to the web for seamless app-to-app communication across any platform for a true “write once, run anywhere” experience—no extensions, no workarounds, just frictionless interoperability.

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Many Apps, One Identity : The Power of FDC3 - Yannick Malins, Symphony & Matthew Harvey, NatWest

In today’s fast-paced financial and enterprise environments, users expect a seamless experience as they move between applications. But without a standardized way to share user identity, workflows become fragmented, productivity suffers, and security risks increase. Enter FDC3, the open standard for inter-application communication. In this session, we’ll explore how FDC3 2.3 will allow sharing user identity across applications securely and efficiently—eliminating redundant logins, reducing manual data entry, and enabling a more connected ecosystem.

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FDC3 Sub-agents for App Composition - Derek Novavi & Kris West

This talk provides an overview of the motivation, the opportunity, the challenges, and the proposed changes to the FDC3 Standard to enable 'sub-agents' and multiple app scopes - for both browsers and other containers.

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Voice-Driven AI Agents for FDC3: Exploring Natural Interfaces for Financial Desktop Integration - Chris Watson, Elgin White

This presentation explores the integration of AI agents with FDC3 standards through voice interaction, featuring a live demonstration using FINOS SAIL. We'll examine how this approach addresses two UX challenges for financial professionals: the manual selection required in current FDC3 intent resolution and the attention-splitting nature of chat interfaces in trading environments.

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Implementing FDC3 - A Vendor’s Strategic Shift To Ad... Vickey Sanders, Aaron Haines & Yatin Thakker

The Implementation: -What drove the top-down product and business leadership strategy to support FDC3. -How a large-scale, central technology standard for FDC3 was set up for success and implemented. -Which new requirements emerged including content enrichment and symbology translation, iframe support and multi-machine interoperability without tech-stack dependencies. -How collaboration with partners and clients accelerated the journey and opened up an ecosystem The Solution: LSEG migrated their Workspace apps to FDC3 from their internal messaging framework, opening up scalability. The Workspace apps became portable and ready for integration for internal and external clients while LSEG gained operational efficiencies. Leveraging Open Source, LSEG and Here are expanding the ecosystem of vendors using FDC3.

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Cafex: Revolutionizing Test Automation in Financial Service... Hari Kishan Kurapati & Prateek Kapoor

S&P Global will be presenting a real-time implementation success story in standardizing and revolutionizing Test Automation Framework in Financial Services using Open-Source Principles in partnership with FINOS. Cafe X, which stands for Centralized Automation Framework Enabler, is an open-source Python testing framework developed by S&P Global in response to the identified inefficiencies in the fintech industry's testing processes. This innovative framework aims to streamline QA and testing efforts, ultimately saving valuable time and resources. Unlike other frameworks that focus on a single testing layer, Cafe X provides comprehensive multi-layer testing capabilities, enabling seamless testing across various layers, including User Interface (UI), Application Programming Interface (API), Database, and data-related tests. This case is joint effort between S&P Global & FINOS to bring the best for Open Source Community.

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Modernizing the Financial Infrastru... Daniela Barbosa, Julio Faura, William Lovell & Prashant Malik

A report from the front lines of implementing tokenization, smart contracts, and digital currencies to improve efficiency and liquidity, open new markets, reduce risk and more. Technology leaders from regulatory, banking, and fintech organizations will sit down with Daniela Barbosa of LF Decentralized Trust for a discussion of their work implementing decentralized technologies. Attendees will hear first hand about what is driving adoption of these technologies by financial services institutions worldwide as well as the challenges and successes that have come with bringing them to market. The conversation will also delve into the roles open development, open governance and standards play in driving innovation and ensuring stability and trust.

Ushering a new Era with the Common Domain Model

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CDM Extension for Property Collateral & Physical Hazard Risks - Johnny Mattimore & David Kelly

The current CDM delivers meaningful workflow and cost benefits for banks. Given the material increase in existing and future exposure that banks have to physical risk events on property assets, extending the CDM will provide comprehensive foundation data fields to support end-to-end workflows for the integration of physical hazards like flood, fire and wind.

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CDM in Motion: New Horizons, Community, and Work... Eteri Dvalishvili, Lyteck Lynhiavu & David Shone

Explore the latest developments and opportunities in the CDM community as we chart new horizons. This session spotlights latest areas of development, evolving governance, active working groups, and how you can get involved.

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Unleashing the Power of CDM: Bridging Integration and Model-Driven Design - Nicholas Moger

Discover how the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM) can transform your software development lifecycle (SDLC). This session demonstrates the power of object-driven development and forward engineering, going beyond surface-level integration to embrace true model-driven development. We'll unpack advanced features of CDM and Rune, highlight missed opportunities, and provide practical insights for rethinking your SDLC. Break free from black-box development and step into the future of innovation with CDM!

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A Guide To Integrating CDM and Digital Regulatory Reporting - Leo Labeis, REGnosys

This session will demonstrate how users may start integrating CDM within their organisation and benefitting from some of its practical applications, such as ISDA's Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR). The session will expose recent developments to open-source the mapping technology in the CDM and its underlying DSL (Rune), and how users can start leveraging it for their implementation.

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Tokenising CDM - Ciarán McGonagle, Tokenovate

The CDM is a foundational standard for modelling financial products, but it does not yet fully accommodate tokenised assets and blockchain-based settlements. This session will explore an initiative to extend the CDM to cover tokenised financial instruments, enabling greater integration between traditional and digital markets. I will discuss how CDM can standardise tokenisation attributes, support on-chain and hybrid settlement models, and enhance interoperability across financial infrastructures. Attendees will gain insight into how open-source collaboration can drive standardisation, reduce fragmentation, and create more transparent, efficient financial markets.

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CDM Interoperability With RDF and Knowledge Graphs - Malcolm Sparks, JUXT LTD.

The Common Domain Model allows us to move away from maintaining the proprietary data models at the centre of our data systems. RDF is a established and mature standard for representing datasets across web sites. In fact, an analysis from 2017 found that 44% of web domains contain some form of embedded structured data in RDF. This scale of adoption has meant that LLMs excel at synthesizing information and context when presented with RDF. It turns out that it's straight-forward to express CDM models as RDF data, and in this talk I'll explain how, and also outline some of the many options that follow on from this: 1. Re-using existing RDF tooling to publish the CDM standard as a searchable website. 2. Integrate CDM-based financial trading information with FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology), XBRL, FRO, LSEG PermIDs and other data domains, such as those used in regulatory reporting 3. Incorporate CDM data in wider departmental Knowledge Graphs or Data Products supporting Agentic AI.

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We Need to Talk More About Standardizing Legal Contracts - Paul Hands, Document Risk Solutions

The CDM has begun carving the path of moving the structure of legal contracts into the modern field of technology. Thousands of different representations of legal contracts across hundreds of companies have been built in private repos, applications and internal workflows, and the CDM is the first real cross body attempt to represent this information in a standardized way. In this session I want to expand on why that is so important to organizations for cost saving, competition and collaboration, and also to describe the direction that I believe the CDM should take and will begin to take as we move through 2025 and 2026. Namely, to remove some of the flexibility that the CDM affords across contracts, so we can be more prescriptive in the structure and type casting of these contracts. The importance of the CDM to continue standardizing these contracts hinges more on the strong typing of each contract, over a general, one size fits all contracts approach. This is reflected in that in the past 40 years since the first ISDA master agreement, a 'one contract to fit all trades' has never been successful. The CDM should evolve to reflect this reality.

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