In this week’s update: read our newest press release welcoming Microsoft to our Governing Board, join the FINOS team at XT25 in London on 12 June, and catch up on FINOS at apidays in an Ambassador Blog. Full details below.
Together with GitHub, Microsoft elevates its membership to Platinum to accelerate critical initiatives to foster compliant open source, cloud and AI adoption in financial services.
🎡 XT25 FINTECH CONFERENCE - JUXT
12 June 2025 | London, UK
FINOS member, JUXT are putting the final touches to their premier invite-only fintech event XT25, which runs this Thursday. FINOS representatives Rimma Perelmuter and Rob Moffat are speaking.
🌠 FINOS Showcases Open Source & AI Innovation at Fintech Developer Day During apidays New York
In a blog from FINOS Ambassador Vinod Goje of Bank of America, read about our first Developer Day where the FINOS Community covered standardization, interoperability, governance, AI innovation in financial services, and more!
OSFF LONDON TRACK HIGHLIGHTS
Open Source in Finance Forum London (OSFF) is TWO WEEKS AWAY!
Below are two talk track highlights on Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open (including AI and DORA), and Guarding the Vaults (Security).
Mutualizing Risk and Compliance in the Open
This track brings together banks, fintechs, and open source leaders to address how financial institutions can collaborate on shared frameworks for compliance, cloud security, and regulatory readiness. From DORA to multi-cloud risk, attendees will gain strategies and tools to meet regulatory demands while accelerating innovation across AI, APIs, and architecture.
- DORA: How To Balance Compliance With Innovation - Monica Sasso, Red Hat
- K8s vs. Agent Smith: Exploding GPUs and the AI Readiness Governance Framework - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane
- Cloud Compliance vs. Cost Efficiency: Can Fintech Have Both? - Kate Obiidykhata, Percona
- Taming Multi-Cloud Security: Progress on Common Cloud Controls - Michael Lysaght, Citi & Sonali Mendis, Scott Logic
- CALM - Architecture Lifecycle Management - Konadu Appiah & Joseph Brown-Pobee, Turntabl.io
- Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code - James Gough, Morgan Stanley
- Learning To Trust Again: How Open Source Can Be Leveraged in Highly Regulated Industries - Liam Follin, KPMG
- The Rise of Internal Forks: How AI Is Reshaping Code Integration and Its Risks To the Financial Serv - Daniel Forsgren, FossID
This track tackles the critical intersection of open source security, compliance, and software supply chain assurance in financial services. From SBOMs and secure CI/CD to AI-driven ROI on OSS security, attendees will explore cutting-edge tools and practices to strengthen trust, safety, and resilience in digital infrastructure.
- Open Source Maturity - OSS Value Creation Through Regulatory Compliance - Marcel Scholze & Katharina Grauf, PwC GmbH Germany
- Trust but Verify: Fixing Broken Licensing Compliance in SBOMs - Abdullah Garcia, J.P. Morgan
- Open Source Software as a Balance Sheet: Using AI to quantify the ROI of Open Source Security - Tobias Heldt, CyberFame.io & Madison Oliver, GitHub
- Beyond Threat Modelling: Formal Verification for Cloud Native Infrastructure - Francesco Beltramini, ControlPlane & Luca Viganò, King's College London
- High-Performance Software Security and Memory Safety - Jon Bauman, Rust Foundation
- Security Superpowers With eBPF and Tetragon - Liz Rice, Isovalent at Cisco
- Breaking Barriers: Secure & Compliant CI/CD in Highly Regulated Industries - Bryan Ross, GitLab & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
June 24, 2025 | London, UK
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WEEK OF 9 JUNE - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, June 9
- 08:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - Waltz Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 09:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - FINOS KDB Project Call - Sign Up
Tuesday, June 10
- 07:00 AM NYC / 12:00 PM UK - FINOS Office Hours: DTCC India Hackathon - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FINOS Common Cloud Controls - Steering - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Automated Change Deployment - DevOps Automation - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Automated Change Deployment - DevOps Automation - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - AI Readiness SIG - Sign Up
Wednesday, June 11
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 07:00 AM NYC / 12:00 PM UK - FINOS Office Hours: DTCC India Hackathon - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Physical Risk Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Compliant Financial Infrastructure : All Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS Technical Oversight Committee Public Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, June 12
- 03:30 AM NYC / 08:30 AM UK - XT25 All Day, London - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Technology Architecture Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Zenith Brain Trust - FINOS Emerging Technologies SIG - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Identity & Security Working 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 - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CCC- Working Group: Taxonomy - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Community Structure - Sign Up
Friday, June 13
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🇪🇸 Structured Finance Hackathon 2025
May 30 - June 12, 2025 | Virtual + Barcelona
Join FINOS and OS-Climate at this hybrid competition bringing together developers, data scientists, and finance professionals to solve a set of predefined challenges in one of the most complex corners of financial services.
🇬🇧 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!
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🌍 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
XT25 FINTECH CONFERENCE - JUXT
June 12th (London):
Engineering Leaders from global banks, fintech companies and hedge funds are meeting in London organised by FINOS Member JUXT to explore how groundbreaking technology concepts, tools and solutions are shaping the future of financial services.
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
