In this week’s update: join project workshops before & after OSFF London and submit your proposal to speak at OSFF New York. Full details below.
Take the 2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey
👉 Join Project Workshops Before and After OSFF London
Extend your OSFF experience by registering for one of our hands-on project workshops in London. Whether you're exploring open source AI frameworks, implementing CDM workflows, or tackling AI governance and cloud compliance, these sessions offer deep dives with FINOS project leaders:
- GenAI Tabletop Exercise for FSIs - 23 June
- AI Use Case Framework Workshop – 23 June (hybrid)
- CDM: Implementing Workflows and Business Events – 23 June (hybrid)
- Common Cloud Controls + AI Workshop – 25 June
📣 OSFF New York Call for Proposals Now Open
Want to speak at OSFF New York (October 21-22)? We’re now accepting talk proposals from practitioners across the financial open source ecosystem.
OSFF LONDON TRACK HIGHLIGHTS
Open Source in Finance Forum London (OSFF) is ONE WEEK AWAY!
Below are two talk track highlights on Supercharge Your Open Source Journey (Open Source Readiness), and The Business Case for Open Source (OS-Climate & more).
Supercharge Your Open Source Journey
This track empowers financial institutions to evolve from passive consumers to active contributors in the open source ecosystem. With sessions focused on contribution enablers, cultural transformation, and inner-source adoption, attendees will gain practical strategies to scale their impact and innovation through open collaboration.
- Open Source in Finance: Maintaining the New Strategic Stack - James McLeod, NatWest Group
- Navigating Challenges in Open Source and InnerSource Management: From Breakups To Breakthroughs - Carlos Navarro Segarra, AXA Group Operations
- Strengthening Open Source Engagement: Recognising and Rewarding Contributors - Neil McGonigle & John Kelly, Fidelity Investments
- Opening the Gate: How GitProxy Is Accelerating Open Source Contribution in Financial Services - Thomas Cooper, RBC & Dávid Serfőző, G-Research
- Fireside Chat: Breaking Barriers - How Financial Institutions Shift from Consumers To Makers of Open Source - Nick Veenhof, GitLab & James McLeod, NatWest Group
- The State of Open Source in Financial Services in the UK - Sam Marland, Red Hat
- What Happens When Part of a Financial Transaction Fails Mid-flight—After Charging a Card, but Before Updating the Ledger? - Rob Holland, Temporal
- From Cloud Foundry to Cloud-Native: Empower Application Deployment with Kratix and Shipwright - Paula Kennedy & Derik Evangelista, Syntasso
The Business Case for Open Source
This track showcases how open source delivers real business value in finance—powering everything from regulatory compliance and trade surveillance to climate risk analytics and mainframe modernization. Attendees will hear concrete use cases proving that open source is not just a tech choice, but a strategic enabler for innovation, efficiency, and modernization.
- Open Eyes, Open Source: Mission-critical Trade Surveillance Powered by TimeBase FINOS Project - Michael Gavronsky, EPAM Systems & Asis Mohanty, Deutsche Bank
- Open Source for Climate Risk: Leveraging OS-Climate’s PhysRisk Library - Elena de Toledo, Arfima Financial Services & Matt Sandoe, OS-Climate
- Using Artificial Intelligence To Fight the Environmental Crisis - Richard Harmon, Red Hat & Steve Tebbe, OS-Cllimate
- An Open-Source Data Platform for Financial Institutions - Marius Bogoevici, Red Hat
- TRAC D.A.P. – a Modern Approach To Structural Analytics and Regulatory Calculations - Alex Frankl & Martin Traverse, finTRAC
- Combatting Greenwashing Using AI Workflows and Agents - Oliver Cronk, Scott Logic Ltd
- Learn How Open Source Is Powering Mainframe Modernization - Joe Winchester & Louisa Seers, IBM
June 24, 2025 | London, UK
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
WEEK OF 16 JUNE - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, June 16
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Git Proxy Project Meeting - Sign Up
Tuesday, June 17
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 General Meeting - Sign Up
Wednesday, June 18
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Open Source Readiness SIG - Checkpoint Session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Tokenized Assets Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
Thursday, June 19
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Web Browsers + Bridging Discussion group - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Security - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Backstage Working Group - FINOS DevOps Automation SIG - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Delivery - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS DevOps Automation - Special Interest Group - Sign Up
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
Friday, June 20
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🇬🇧 Open Source in Finance Forum – London
June 24, 2025 | London, UK
Join FINOS's flagship European conference where financial services leaders and technologists meet to accelerate open collaboration and advance strategic initiatives like FDC3, CDM, and CCC. Connect with peers, see real-world implementations, and remember that FINOS Members attend for free!
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
🌍 Global Digital Collaboration on Wallets & Credentials (GC25)
July 1–2, 2025 | Geneva, Switzerland
GC25 is a landmark, invite-only working summit convening intergovernmental organizations, standards bodies, and open source communities to shape the future of digital credentials, identity, and wallets. As a FINOS Member, you have exclusive access to participate and help represent financial services alongside global leaders from ICAO, WHO, World Bank, UNDP, W3C, ISO, Linux Foundation, OpenWallet, and more, in building the next-gen digital trust infrastructure.
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
🇮🇹 LF Europe Roadshow – Finance Track (with FINOS)
July 8, 2025 | Milan, Italy
FINOS is bringing the open source finance conversation to continental Europe! Join us at the LF Europe Roadshow in Milan for a regional opportunity to connect on key themes like AI governance, FDC3, CDM, and cloud compliance, featuring real-world implementations.
➡️ Register & Learn More - Agenda coming soon
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
Community EVENTS
June 18th (London):
Join FINOS Members Gitlab and Google Cloud as they bring together leaders to explore the critical shift from simply using AI as a development aid to building truly AI-driven software innovation engines across the entire SDLC.
AERON COMMUNITY MEETUP - ADAPTIVE
June 25th (London):
Join FINOS Member Adaptive's Aeron Community MeetUps for the latest updates on low-latency messaging and fault-tolerant trading technology incl. guest speakers, use case presentations, technical deep dives, Q&A sessions and networking.
Have a great week and please contact marketing@finos.org if you have any questions or you would like to take part in any marketing related activities.
Kind regards,
FINOS Team
