This Week At FINOS

This Week At FINOS: Week Of July 27, 2026

Written by FINOS Team | Jul 27, 2026 6:03:57 AM

In this week’s update: join for our virtual All Community Call, explore FDC 3.0's shift toward security & observability, and learn more about the AI Governance Framework MCP Server.

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🌐 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.

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🖥️ FDC3 3.0: Secure by Design, Ready for AI, and Easier to Build On

The FDC3 3.0 release is one of the most significant updates to the open standard in years, shifting focus toward security, observability, cross-firm interoperability, and modern usage scenarios. This milestone addresses a critical question for the industry: how do you trust what you're receiving and understand where it came from in a world increasingly dominated by web applications, APIs, and AI agents?

➡️ Explore FDC3 3.0

➡️ Join the Next Project Call

🤖 AI Governance Framework: MCP Server Contribution

Contribution spearheaded by Citi, this open source infrastructure acts as the intelligent middleware needed to turn standard AI agents into governed, risk-aware systems. It accelerates automated threat modeling and risk assessment by converting architectural operating landscapes into actionable, governed insights for enterprise AI agents.

➡️ Learn More Here

WEEK OF 27 JULY - MEETINGS

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

Monday, July 27

  • 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Inclusive Engineering Working group - 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
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Git Proxy Project Meeting - Sign Up

Tuesday, July 28

  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Architecture as Code Working Group - DevOps Automation - Sign Up
  • 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up

Wednesday, July 29

  • 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
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Physical Risk and Resilience - Sign Up
  • 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up
  • 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
  • 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS Technical Oversight Committee Meeting - Sign Up

Thursday, July 30

  • 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
  • 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
  • 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Website Improvement - Sign Up
  • 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up

Friday, July 31

  • 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
  • 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - XR in Finance - 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.

➡️ Register Here

🗽 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

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FEATURED EVENTS

C:\>DIR Global 'Agentic Regulator' Hackathon

Registration Closes | July 31

This Cambridge Digitial Innovation & Regulation Initiative hackathon brings together national authorities, regulators, central bankers, AI researchers, engineers, academics, financial institutions and technology partners to collaboratively build the next generation 'Agentic Regulator', including practical, explainable and deployable agentic AI prototypes that can be deployed by regulators and supervisors (financial and non-financial). It runs virtually, with a preliminary round now open until 31 July 2026.

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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