In this week’s update: our Community Spotlight shines on Harish Malavade (Fidelity Investments), cyber week savings are here, and join FINOS in Tokyo or Paris on December 11.
🌟 Community Spotlight: Harish Malavade, Fidelity Investments
Harish played a key leadership role in the formation and growth of Fluxnova, a FINOS-hosted orchestration and automation platform developed in collaboration with Fidelity, NatWest Group, Deutsche Bank, and Capital One. As a lead maintainer, Harish continues to guide Fluxnova’s growth with a clear vision for open collaboration and industry-scale impact.
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➡️ FINOS Training & Certification
If you have any questions about FINOS training, please contact us at training@finos.org
🗾 The Transformational Value of Open Source for Financial Services
December 11 | Tokyo
Please join us at this executive event exploring how open source is reshaping financial services globally and its impact on the FSI community in Japan. Gain senior-level insights into leveraging open source for strategic growth, innovation and regulatory compliance.
🇫🇷 Open Source in Finance Developer Day at apidays Paris
December 11| Paris
Building on events in New York and London - a full‑day, code‑level track dedicated to open source innovation in financial services is coming to Paris hosted inside apidays Paris. This one-day program brings together developers, architects, and engineers across financial services to explore how open source is accelerating transformation in regulated industries.
Regular price: 399 € → 320 € with code FINOS20. FINOS Members please reach out to help@finos.org for a FREE discount code to use.
If you have any questions or wish to connect any Europe based colleagues with the FINOS team, please contact us at info@finos.org
WEEK OF 1 DECEMBER - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, December 1
- 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, December 2
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
Wednesday, December 3
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Open Source Readiness SIG - 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 - Open Source Talent Acceleration SIG - Monthly Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, December 4
- 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure - 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 - AI Reference Architecture Library weekly working session - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands - Sign Up
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
Friday, December 5
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🇫🇷 Open Source in Finance Developer Day at apidays Paris
December 11 | Paris
Building on events in New York and London, the event is coming to Paris as a full‑day, code‑level track dedicated to open source innovation in financial services. The full schedule will be released soon!
FINOS Member Benefit: please reach out to help@finos.org for a FREE discount code to use
🗾 The Transformational Value of Open Source for Financial Services
December 11 | Tokyo
Please join us at this executive event exploring how open source is reshaping financial services globally and its impact on the FSI community in Japan. Gain senior-level insights into leveraging open source for strategic growth, innovation and regulatory compliance.
Community EVENTS
Open Source Summit Japan
December 8-10 | Tokyo, Japan
Join our Executive Director Gabriele Columbro for a keynote at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit. It’s where maintainers, technologists, and community leaders come together to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push open source projects forward.
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

