This Week At FINOS

This Week At FINOS: Week Of February 23, 2026

Written by FINOS Team | Feb 23, 2026 11:28:29 AM

In this week’s update: the OSFF Toronto schedule and Tech Stack Track are live, the OSFF London CFP deadline is less than a month away, and the latest FDC3 sessions are now on YouTube.

This Week's Meetings | Upcoming Events | 

State of Open Source in Financial Services Report 

🇨🇦 OSFF Toronto: Schedule is Live!

April 14 | Toronto

The full program for the Open Source Finance Forum (OSFF) Toronto is officially live. We are bringing the global open source financial services community to the University of Toronto on April 14th for a day dedicated to the intersection of open source innovation and modern banking.

➡️ View Schedule

🇬🇧 OSFF London: Submit Your Proposal to Speak

CFP Closes: 15 March

We are looking for thought leaders ready to address the industry's most pressing challenges through the lens of collaboration and mutualization. We welcome talks on a wide range of topics relevant to open source in financial services. Our talk themes this year center around our strategic initiatives.

➡️ Submit a CFP

📽️ FDC3 Video Playlist & FINOS YouTube Channel

Last week we released a new OSFF New York FDC3 session playlist, featuring the latest thinking and practical implementations of FDC3 for desktop interoperability—a quick way to get up to speed on real-world use cases.

➡️ FDC3 YouTube Playlist

➡️ FDC3 Project

 

OSFF TORONTO SPECIAL SECTION

🍁 OSFF Toronto 2026 Spotlight: The FINOS Ecosystem & Tech Stack Track

If you are joining us at OSFF Toronto this April, you won't want to miss the FINOS Ecosystem / Tech Stack track taking over the University of Toronto on Tuesday, April 14th!

Track Overview: This year’s track is heavily focused on the practical, real-world application of open source within financial services. It tackles everything from proving the concrete ROI of upstream open-source contributions to securing interoperability with FDC3. A massive theme this year is the intersection of AI and finance, featuring deep dives into Agentic AI, multi-agent reference architectures (AIGF), and the state of open-source AI in Canada. Attendees will also get hands-on insights into unified cloud capacity provisioning (ORB), architecture as code (CALM), workflow automation (Fluxnova), and the push for shared, standardized industry data (CDM and the new Open Data Commons).

Check out a preview of this track on the Open Source in Finance Podcast

Tuesday, April 14th Schedule - The Ballroom East:

  • 10:45 am: Winning the Case for Open Source Contribution: ROI, Risk, and Real-World Evidence (Elspeth Minty, Rob Moffat, Mimi Flynn, Mark Paulsen)
  • 11:30 am: FDC3 Security & Identity: Demos, Live Coding and a Release Candidate (Rob Moffat, Chris Stair)
  • 12:35 pm: What's the State of Open Source AI in Canada? (Hilary Carter, Anna Hermansen)
  • 12:55 pm: Agentic AI and the Future of Software Development (Colin Eberhardt)
  • 1:35 pm: Open Resource Broker: A Unified API for Cloud Capacity Provisioning in HPC (Flamur Gogolli, Kirill Bogdanov)
  • 2:20 pm: From AIGF Reference Architecture To Reusable Reference Implementations: Multi-Agent Systems (Francesco Beltramini, William Rizzo)
  • 3:05 pm: Fluxnova Intro, Applied Demo & Performance Overview (Ryan Johnston)
  • 3:55 pm: Introduction To the Common Architecture Language Model (CALM) (Khalid Elsawaf)
  • 4:40 pm: The Common Domain Model: One Model, Many Market Use Cases (Lyteck Lynhiavu)
  • 5:25 pm: Building the Open Data Commons: Why Finance Needs a Shared Entity Graph (Jose Plehn, Nora Anwar, Hilary Carter, Jane Gavronsky)

🔗 Click here to view the full schedule and read the session abstracts!

 

WEEK OF 23 FEBRUARY - MEETINGS

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

Monday, February 23

  • 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, February 24

  • 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Collateral Working Group - Sign Up
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Architecture as Code Working Group - DevOps Automation - Sign Up
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up

Wednesday, February 25

  • 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 - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
  • 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up

Thursday, February 26

  • 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
  • 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure - 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 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

Friday, February 27

  • 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
  • 08:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - TraderX - Monthly - Sign Up
  • 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

🇨🇦 Inaugural OSFF Toronto: Schedule live!

April 14 | Toronto

For the first time the Open Source in Finance Forum is coming to Canada. Unlike our larger global summits, OSFF Toronto is designed as an exclusive, high-impact event for approximately 250 attendees.

➡️ Register Today

🇬🇧 OSFF London: Registration Now Open!

June 25 | London

OSFF is the premier event that connects the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation. This conference is uniquely designed to foster partnerships, advance talent development and accelerate technological advancements across the finance industry; building faster, trusted and secure solutions.

➡️ Register Here with Code TWAFOSFFLN20 for 20% Off 

🇬🇧 OSFF London: Submit Your Proposal to Speak

CFP Closes: 15 March

We are looking for thought leaders ready to address the industry's most pressing challenges through the lens of collaboration and mutualization. We welcome talks on a wide range of topics relevant to open source in financial services. Our talk themes this year center around our strategic initiatives.

➡️ Submit a CFP

🌐 Open Source in Finance Forum

April 14 | Toronto 🇨🇦 

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 Toronto. 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.

➡️ Explore Upcoming Forums

 

Community EVENTS

AI Tinkerers Milan: Agentic Orchestration in Financial Services

February 24 | Milan

Join Luca Borella, FINOS AI Strategic Initiative Program Manager, at AI Tinkerers Milan for a deep dive into Agentic Orchestration in Regulated Industries — where real-world demos meet hard-earned implementation lessons.

Event Details Here

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.

Event Details Here

Aeron Community MeetUp London

March 12 | London

Attend FINOS Silver Member Adaptive's Aeron Community MeetUps for the latest updates on low-latency messaging and fault-tolerant trading technology.

Event Details Here

Aeron Community MeetUp New York

March 26 | New York

Attend FINOS Silver Member Adaptive's Aeron Community MeetUps for the latest updates on low-latency messaging and fault-tolerant trading technology.

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