This Week At FINOS

This Week At FINOS: Week Of December 8, 2025

Written by FINOS Team | Dec 8, 2025 11:15:00 AM

In this week’s update: join FINOS in Paris on December 11, CDM training passes 1,000 users, AI framework use case gathering, and daily CALM learning.

This Week's Meetings | Upcoming Events | 

State of Open Source in Financial Services Report 

🇫🇷 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.

➡️ Register Here for 20% OFF

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

🏫 CDM (Common Domain Model) Training Passes 1,000 Users

The Introduction to the Common Domain Model (CDM) course has now successfully trained more than 1,000 participants from banks, asset managers, custodians, exchanges, and service providers within the global financial industry. The course was developed by TradeHeader and is hosted on the Linux Foundation Training portal, in collaboration with FINOS..

➡️ TradeHeader Press Release 

🤖 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.

➡️ Share Your Use Case

 ❄️ Advent of CALM Learning

 An opportunity to learn all about CALM (Common Architecture Language Model), in daily bite sized lessons from the 1st to the 24th December. 

➡️ Learn Here

WEEK OF 8 DECEMBER - MEETINGS

Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:

Monday, December 8

  • 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 - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - Sign Up
  • 09:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - FINOS KDB Project Call - Sign Up
  • 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - SDLC Governance Framework Working Group - Dev Ops Automation - Sign Up

Tuesday, December 9

  • 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FINOS Common Cloud Controls - Steering - Sign Up
  • 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Collateral Working Group - Sign Up
  • 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - AI Readiness SIG - Sign Up

Wednesday, December 10

  • 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 - CDM Physical Risk Working Group - Sign Up
  • 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - 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, December 11

  • 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure - 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 - FDC3 Identity & Security Working Group - 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 - Zenith Brain Trust - FINOS 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 - 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 - FINOS DevOps Automation - Special Interest Group - Sign Up

Friday, December 12

  • 04:30 AM NYC / 09:30 AM UK - Distinguished Engineer Community Monthly SIG Meeting - Sign Up
  • 09:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - CDM Smart Contract Taskforce - 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

🇫🇷 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

➡️ Register Here - 20% Off

🗾 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.

➡️ Register Here

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.

Event Details Here

ISDA Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and the Common Domain Model – Ark51’s Journey to Digitize ISDA Documentation

December 10 | Virtual

Join ISDA’s Vernon Alden-Smith and Paul Hands of Ark 51 on Wednesday for a webinar discussing the production-ready developments using artificial intelligence (AI) and the Common Domain Model (CDM) to digitize documentation.

Event Details Here

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