In this week’s update: explore our landmark announcement to form OSERA to mutualize open source backpatching across the financial services ecosystem, and share your insights in the newly launched 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey.
🛡️ OSERA: Intent to Form the Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance
Critical infrastructure like finance runs on open source, but fixing vulnerabilities addresses only half the problem. In regulated environments, getting fixes into production—timely, at scale, and with evidence—is what delivers true operational resilience.
Following The Linux Foundation’s launch of Akrites, FINOS, alongside Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Moderne, Morgan Stanley, RBC, Sonatype, and TD, has announced the intent to form OSERA. This neutral, openly governed home will:
- Mutualize open source backpatching on shared high-priority packages—a fix produced once, consumed by all.
- Promote vendor-neutral, industry-wide remediation standards tailored for regulated frameworks.
- Accelerate evidence-based, compliant consumption at scale, proving “patched, tested, deployed” without a manual fire drill.
The announcement follows a successful end-to-end pilot which tested four backpatched critical Java frameworks in banks’ environments with no change to CI tooling. As AI collapses vulnerability discovery from weeks to minutes, OSERA delivers secure open source in production, at scale—without the lock-in.
✍️ 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services Survey
This year’s survey explores the practical realities shaping the future of open source in financial services, including OSS value and ROI, modern AI and AI agents, open and industry-shared data, dependency management, regulatory pressure, and barriers to contribution.
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WEEK OF 29 JUNE - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, June 29
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Inclusive Engineering Working group - 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, June 30
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, July 1
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Distinguished Engineer Community Quarterly SIG Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Open Source Readiness SIG - 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
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Open Source Talent Acceleration SIG - Monthly Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, July 2
- 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
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Use Cases and Workflows Discussion 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
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
Friday, July 3
- 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
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
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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
