In this week’s update: final call to take our 2026 survey, dive into a FINOS Ambassador recap of OSFF London 2026, and CDM 7.0 is officially live!
⏳ Final Call: State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey
Help us understand how open source software, standards, data, frameworks and AI tools are used across the financial services industry, where they are delivering value, and the challenges firms still face. We need your help to set the industry benchmark for 2026: please take 10 minutes to complete the 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey.
Survey closes August 7th
📖 Ambassador Recap: My OSFF London 2026 Story
FINOS Ambassador Neil McGonigle (Fidelity) recaps OSFF London, highlighting a major "agentic shift" across financial services. As AI rapidly transitions from experimentation to execution, institutions are leveraging open source collaboration to establish the shared control layers required for enterprise deployment.
➡️ Read More about OSFF London 2026
📢 CDM 7.0 Production Release
Common Domain Model (CDM) 7.0 is officially live! Consolidating over 130 individual upgrades, this monumental release moves entirely away from synonym-based mappings to Functional Ingestion Mappings, allowing anyone with CDM knowledge to make changes. It also significantly expands the Legal Agreement capabilities with ISDA Foundations integration, introduces the initial components of the Smart Contracts Framework, and much more.
➡️ Read the Full Release Notes Here
WEEK OF 3 AUGUST - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, August 3
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - InnerSource SIG - Sign Up
- 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 Meeting - Short - Sign Up
Tuesday, August 4
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - AI Readiness SIG - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, August 5
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Open Source Readiness SIG - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Physical Risk and Resilience - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Open Source Talent Acceleration SIG - Monthly Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, August 6
- 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (EU/APAC) - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Reference Architecture Library weekly working session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Use Cases and Workflows Discussion Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Zenith - Emerging Technologies SIG - 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: Communications / All Hands - Sign Up
Friday, August 7
- 09:15 AM NYC / 02:15 PM UK - A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Data Commons - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - OpenGris Project Meeting - Sign Up
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
📢 FINOS All Community Call
August 12 | Virtual
Join us for our quarterly All Community Call as the FINOS team and community share key updates from across the foundation. This session covers OSFF London recaps, Board and new TOC member updates, OSFF New York previews, and critical project updates across Fluxnova, OSERA, FDC3 3.0, and the new FINOS AI Fund.
🗽 OSFF New York
November 4-5 | NYC
Join us in NYC on November 4–5 for two days of technical deep-dives and executive strategy. Day 1 focuses on Fluxnova Con and enterprise process orchestration, with broader conference tracks covering AI Governance, OSERA, FDC3, HPC, and open compliance. Full workshop schedules and speaker announcements are coming soon.
➡️ Register Here with Code TWAFOSFFNY20 for 20% Off
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
