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:
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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Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, June 29
Tuesday, June 30
Wednesday, July 1
Thursday, July 2
Friday, July 3
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
🗽 OSFF New York
November 4-5 | NYC
As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with a unique venue to maximize open source ROI. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, access to top talent, and overall faster innovation. OSFF 2026 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.
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FINOS Team