In this week’s update: Agentic AI Foundation launched, AI use case gathering, an ambassador blog on the future of retail banking, and a live demo.
🤖 Agentic AI Foundation: The Standards for Fluxnova & Governance
The Linux Foundation’s launch of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) and the contribution of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, signals a major shift in how agents will interoperate. For financial services, this aligns perfectly with our roadmap: Fluxnova serves as the critical orchestration engine to manage these agent workflows, while our Open Source AI Governance framework provides the necessary guardrails. Together, we are building a secure, standardized stack for the future of finance.
🤖 Building Better AI in Finance: Use Case Gathering
We’re kicking off a new FINOS community effort to co-create an open framework for evaluating AI systems in financial services. First step? Real-world use cases from you, to ensure that what we build reflects actual needs and pain points across the industry.
📰 Ambassador Blog: Open Source and the Future of Retail Banking
Dive into our newest ambassador blog from Dr. Gulzar Singh covering retail banking, the resilience of open source, and the importance of CDM (Common Domain Model) and FDC3.
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🏗️ Live Demo: Morgan Stanley Builds a Trading System in 10 Minutes
At OSFF NY, Morgan Stanley’s Khal Elsawaf proved the power of "Architecture as Code" by building a complex trading system live in under 10 minutes, using natural language AI prompts instead of raw JSON. By leveraging the Common Architecture Language Model (CALM), he demonstrated how to banish diagram drift and auto-generate documentation that stays in perfect sync with your actual build.
WEEK OF 15 DECEMBER - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, December 15
- 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 16
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Fluxnova Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
Wednesday, December 17
- 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
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Open Source Readiness SIG - Checkpoint Session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Tokenized Assets Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
Thursday, December 18
- 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 Standards Working 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
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
🌐 Save the Dates: Open Source in Finance Forum
Spring 2026 | Montreal 🇨🇦
June 25 | London 🇬🇧
November 4-5 | New York 🗽
In 2026, our flagship event, Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF), returns to London and New York and, for the first time, expands to Montreal. These events offer a unique opportunity to showcase innovation and help shape the future of open source in finance alongside leaders from across financial services, technology, and the open source community.
Community EVENTS
CDM (Common Domain Model) Showcase
March 4 | London
Following the lifecycle of a trade, members of ICMA, ISDA, and ISLA will highlight benefits of the Common Domain Model during a full-day interactive conference.
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
