In this week’s update: our Community Spotlight shines on Matthew Bain of Morgan Stanley, last chance to speak at OSFF London, and watch a new Open Source AI YouTube playlist.
⭐ Community Spotlight: Matthew Bain, Morgan Stanley
This quarter we highlight Matthew Bain, Distinguished Engineer and Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, Lead CALM Maintainer and FINOS TOC member, and his role in growing CALM from a community effort into a thriving FINOS project.
➡️ Read Here
🇬🇧 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 AI Video Playlist & FINOS YouTube Channel
Last week we released a multi-week OSFF Open Source AI session playlist, starting with agentic AI talks from OSFF NY. More to come weekly - subscribe to the channel for updates!
OSFF TORONTO SPECIAL SECTION
🍁 OSFF Toronto 2026 Spotlight: The Hands-On Workshops
The Open Source in Finance Forum isn't just about what happens on the main stage on Tuesday. Surrounding the conference - on Monday, April 13th and Wednesday, April 15th - we are hosting a series of focused, highly interactive technical workshops.
Because we are an open-source community, we thrive on active collaboration. These are not passive lectures; they are roll-up-your-sleeves, laptops-open working sessions. To ensure a high-quality, hands-on environment, each room is strictly limited to 40 participants. Whether you are a Chief Risk Officer trying to map AI to OSFI guidelines, or a DevOps lead automating compliance, these sessions are designed to solve specific, highly regulated engineering bottlenecks together.
Find your track and apply for a seat:
For the "Gatekeepers" (Security, Infra, & DevOps):
- GitProxy Secure Gateway Workshop: Led by Elspeth Minty and Thomas Cooper (RBC). Deploy a "Smart Airlock" that gives developers seamless open-source access without triggering InfoSec alarms. [Apply Here]
- Open SDLC Controls Framework: Led by George Kichukov (GitLab) and Michael Long (Kosli). Stop trading velocity for compliance. Learn how to define "Controls as Code" for internal audit. [Apply Here]
- Common Cloud Controls (CCC): Led by Maxime Coquerel (RBC) and Eddie Knight (Sonatype). Move from manual spreadsheets to policy-as-code for secure, multi-cloud architecture. [Apply Here]
For the "Guardians" (Risk, Legal, & Compliance):
- AI Governance Framework Training: An executive-level session for Model Risk and Data Ethics leaders to operationalize safe, compliant Generative AI deployments. [Apply Here]
For the "Builders" (Data Architects, Quants, & Platform Leads):
- HPC Grid Using Cloud Native Services: Led by AWS. Break the capacity ceiling of legacy on-prem compute grids with infinitely scalable, low-latency task scheduling. [Apply Here]
- Unlocking the FINOS CDM: Led by TradeHeader. A hands-on Java session to standardize post-trade derivatives data and end manual trade reconciliation. [Apply Here]
- Fluxnova Developer Experience Deep Dive: Led by Ryan Johnston (Summit58). Architect the next generation of financial workflow automation and orchestrate deterministic Agentic AI. [Apply Here]
Space is strictly limited. These sessions require technical or domain alignment to ensure high-quality collaboration, so please submit your applications early!
🔗 View the full OSFF Toronto Schedule Here
WEEK OF 9 MARCH - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, March 9
- 08:00 AM NYC / 12:00 PM UK - Waltz Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 09:30 AM NYC / 01:30 PM UK - FINOS KDB Project Call - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Git Proxy Project Meeting - Sign Up
Tuesday, March 10
- 11:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up
Wednesday, March 11
- 08:30 PM NYC / 12:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
- 06:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - CDM Physical Risk Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - AI Governance Framework Working Session - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Open Source Talent Acceleration SIG - Monthly Meeting - Sign Up
Thursday, March 12
- 06:00 AM NYC / 10:00 AM UK - CCC - Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - CDM Technology Architecture Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - AI Reference Architecture Library weekly working session - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FDC3 Identity & Security Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Taxonomy - Sign Up
Friday, March 13
- 01:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Applied GenAI bi-weekly call - Sign Up
- 09:15 AM NYC / 01:15 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.
🇬🇧 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.
Community EVENTS
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.
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.
2026 FSI Autism Hackathon Community MeetUp New York
April 8-9 | New York + Virtual
Join FINOS Ambassador and TOC Chair Peter Smulovics at the Annual Hybrid Hackathon dedicated to transforming autism treatment!
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
