Welcome to your weekly FINOS briefing. In this week’s update: register for our virtual All Community Call, preview the AI Implementaiton & Engineering Track at OSFF London, and explore the path to reusable assurance in a new Ambassador blog on Common Cloud Controls.
📢 FINOS All Community Call
May 26 | Virtual
Join us for our quarterly "All Community Call" where the FINOS team and community will provide updates on what's been happening within the Foundation as well as what's coming up.
🇬🇧 OSFF London Track Spotlight: AI Implementation & Engineering
June 25 | London
Uncover the next frontier of intelligent systems with our AI Implementation & Engineering track, which kicks off with a rigorous focus on the practicalities of Agentic AI—from securing trustworthy, multi-party workflows to implementing bounded autonomy within cloud-native environments. As the day progresses, the sessions delve into sophisticated technical applications, including graph-grounded retrieval for complex financial disclosures, the move toward automated incident resolution, and platform engineering for quantitative models.
➡️ Register Here with Code TWAFOSFFLN20 for 20% Off
📰 Common Cloud Controls: Making Cloud Assurance Reusable in Financial Services - Dr. Gulzar Singh, FINOS Ambassador
Cloud adoption in financial services has matured, but assurance has not kept pace. Banks and insurers have moved critical workloads into public and hybrid cloud environments, yet the underlying control work remains stubbornly repetitive. The same questions are asked by different teams, in different formats, at different times. This is the gap that Common Cloud Controls is designed to address.
➡️ Read More
WEEK OF 11 May - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Monday, May 11
- 08:00 AM NYC / 01:00 PM UK - Waltz Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - Labs - CyberThirdEye - Sign Up
- 09:30 AM NYC / 02:30 PM UK - KDB Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - SDLC Governance Framework Working Group Meeting - Dev Ops Automation - Sign Up
Tuesday, May 12
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - AI Readiness SIG - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - CDM Steering Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Sign Up
- 08:30 PM NYC / 01:30 AM UK - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session - Sign Up
Wednesday, May 13
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Physical Risk Working Group - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Physical Risk and Resilience - Sign Up
Thursday, May 14
- 06:00 AM NYC / 11:00 AM UK - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (EU/APAC) - Sign Up
- 09:00 AM NYC / 02:00 PM UK - CDM Technology Architecture Working Group - 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 Identity & Security Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Zenith - Emerging Technologies SIG - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands - Sign Up
Friday, May 15
- 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
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - OpenGris Project Meeting - Sign Up
Visit the FINOS Calendar to stay informed of the most recent updates and calendar invitations.
FINOS EVENTS
📢 FINOS All Community Call
May 26 | Virtual
Join us for our quarterly "All Community Call" where the FINOS team and community will provide updates on what's been happening within the Foundation as well as what's coming up.
🇬🇧 OSFF London: Schedule live!
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 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.
➡️ Register Here with Code TWAFOSFFNY20 for 20% Off
Community EVENTS
2026 FSI Autism Hackathon Community MeetUp New York
May 27-28 | 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
