This week’s update is an event schedule edition: the OSFF New York program is now live, first talks for FINOS Developer Day London are announced, and FINOS leadership are on the keynote stage at Open Source Summit Europe 2025. Full details below.
🗽 OSFF New York 2025 — Schedule Now Live
October 21–22 | New York City
The industry’s premier open source conference for financial services returns this fall. Early Bird pricing ends September 7.
Program Highlights:
- Day 1: Value & ROI of FINOS, with updates on projects and strategic initiatives including FDC3, CDM, OSR, and more.
- Day 2: Deep dives on open source AI, software supply-chain security, regulation & compliance, and Hot Topics lightning talks.
🎡 FINOS Developer Day at apidays London
September 22 | London
A limited number of FREE full apidays London passes (£999 value) are available for the FINOS community. That means access to the entire multi-day event — but most importantly, a dedicated developer track built around FINOS projects delivered by the engineers and maintainers building the future of open source in finance.
FINOS Developer Day Highlights:
- Common Domain Model: Open Standards and Automation in Post-trade
- AI Governance Framework: Using the OpenAI Agents SDK to Create Production Ready Scalable Application Agents
- More sessions to be announced!
➡️ Reserve your FREE seat (limited availability)
🌐 Open Source Summit Europe 2025
August 25–27 | Amsterdam
Attending OSS EU this week? Be sure to catch FINOS leadership on the keynote stage:
- Morning Keynotes: Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Executive Director & LF Europe General Manager
- August 27 Keynote & Panel: Madeleine Dassule, FINOS Executive Advisor & Governing Board Chair Emeritus
🤖 ICYMI - Bank of America Support for our Common Controls for AI Strategic Initiative
"Bank of America is proud to support FINOS’ mission to establish an industry-wide AI controls framework… [to] strengthen the financial services industry’s ability to deliver secure and innovative AI solutions.” - Duncan McInnes, CIO for Global Markets Technology, Bank of America
🔗 Learn More About AI in Financial Services
WEEK OF 25 AUGUST - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, August 25
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - SDLC Governance Framework Working Group - Dev Ops Automation - Sign Up
Tuesday, August 26
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Architecture as Code Working Group - DevOps Automation - Sign Up
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, August 27
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
Thursday, August 28
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Standard Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - 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: Compliant Financial Infrastructure - Sign Up
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
Friday, August 29
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09:15 AM NYC / 02:15 PM UK - A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting - Sign Up
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🗽 Open Source in Finance Forum – New York
October 21-22 | New York City
Join FINOS's flagship conference where financial services leaders and technologists meet to accelerate open collaboration and advance strategic initiatives like FDC3, CDM, and FINOS CCC. Connect with peers, see real-world implementations, and remember that FINOS Members attend for free! Reach out to osff@finos.org for your code.
🍴 Fork the Bank: How Open Source is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
September 9 | Webinar
Join us for a Complimentary Live Webinar Presented by Linux Foundation Education & FINOS. This session introduces skills and certifications that can help you or your team stay ahead—whether you're advancing in your current role, leading others, or looking to break into the world of IT finance. You'll learn how open source is redefining innovation in financial services— and beyond.
🛠️ Future-Proof Your Trade Reporting: CDM/DRR Integration Masterclass with Regnosys
September 18 | Virtual
Many firms see the value in CDM and DRR—but hesitate due to perceived complexity. This hands-on masterclass shows you how to integrate DRR into your internal systems faster and more efficiently using Rune’s Translate 2.0 and the Rosetta platform.
➡️ Register for the Masterclass
🤖 Evaluate & Benchmark AI for Financial Institutions
September 19-20 | London
Join us in London for two events designed to set the industry standard for trustworthy, production‑ready GenAI in financial services. Our contributors now need a clear, community‑owned process to expand prior work into a full Evaluation & Benchmarking Suite.
➡️ Register for the Scoping Workshop and/or TechSprint
Community EVENTS
October 21st (Zurich + Virtual):
This FINOS Associate Member Scion Association event offers an opportunity to explore how the technology is helping critical sectors stay connected, stay compliant, and stay ahead – while building a more secure society for us all.
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
