This week, we're shining a spotlight on Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services, highlighting this week's AI risks webinar, SEC Roundtable insights, an AI Governance Framework Workshop, and apidays New York.
🤖 The Unexpected Risks of AI in Finance: What You’re Not Watching Could Cost You featuring Sonatype & NVIDIA - FINOS OSinFinance Webinar
May 7, 2025 | 11:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM BST | Virtual
Join experts from Sonatype, NVIDIA, and FINOS as they reveal the overlooked hardware, software supply chain, and regulatory risks that AI introduces into financial environments. Learn critical strategies to spot and mitigate threats you didn't know were present as your firm adopts AI.
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
📰 Navigating the AI Frontier in Finance - Insights from the SEC Roundtable
This blog post provides valuable insights from the recent SEC Roundtable on AI in the Financial Industry, including FINOS's stake in the conversation and a deep dive into governance discussions. It reinforces the importance of the work being done within FINOS to create practical, open-source solutions for the financial services industry as it embraces AI.
🗽 AI Governance Framework Workshop
May 13th | NYC + Virtual
Join us for an immersive exploration of the FINOS AI Governance Framework.
This workshop is a key opportunity to dive deeper into the AI Governance Framework, collaborate with peers, and directly contribute to its development.
🗽 Open Source in Finance Developer Day by FINOS @ apidays NYC
May 14–15, 2025 | New York, NY
FINOS Members get free access to both days of apidays NYC (a $990 value!), including a dedicated FINOS OSinFinance Developer Track on May 15 packed with hands-on sessions on GenAI, FDC3, CDM, Legend, GitProxy, and more for financial engineers.
Use Free FINOS Member Code: email events@finos.org for your code if you are a FINOS Member
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
WEEK OF 6 May - MEETINGS
Here's what's happening during this week in the FINOS community, visit the calendar here for meeting links:
Tuesday, May 6
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS Regulation Innovation SIG (monthly meeting) - Sign Up
Wednesday, May 7
- 05:30 AM NYC / 10:30 AM UK - Spring Bot Project Meeting - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - CDM Tokenized Assets Working Group - 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 - OS in Finance Webinar Series: Sonatype & NVIDIA - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CDM Derivatives Working Group - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - FINOS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion SIG - Monthly Meeting - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - Evolution at Scale - DevOps Automation Working Group - Sign Up
Thursday, May 8
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - Zenith Brain Trust - FINOS Emerging Technologies SIG - Sign Up
- 10:00 AM NYC / 03:00 PM UK - FDC3 Identity & Security Working Group - Sign Up
- 10:30 AM NYC / 03:30 PM UK - Architecture as Code Office Hours - Sign Up
- 11:00 AM NYC / 04:00 PM UK - Backstage Working Group - FINOS DevOps Automation SIG - Sign Up
- 11:30 AM NYC / 04:30 PM UK - CCC- Working Group: Taxonomy - Sign Up
- 12:00 PM NYC / 05:00 PM UK - CCC - Working Group: Community Structure - Sign Up
- 01:00 PM NYC / 06:00 PM UK - FINOS LLM Exploration Weekly Call - Sign Up
Friday, May 9
- 09:15 AM NYC / 02:15 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
🤖 FINOS OSinFinance Webinar – The Unexpected Risks of AI in Finance: What You’re Not Watching Could Cost You featuring Sonatype & NVIDIA
May 7, 2025 | 11:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM BST | Virtual
Join experts from Sonatype, NVIDIA, and FINOS as they reveal the overlooked hardware, software supply chain, and regulatory risks that AI introduces into financial environments. Learn critical strategies to spot and mitigate threats you didn't know were present as your firm adopts AI.
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
🗽 AI Governance Framework Workshop
May 13th | NYC + Virtual
Join us for an immersive exploration of the FINOS AI Governance Framework.
This workshop is designed for policy makers, technology leaders, and industry innovators interested in learning more about FINOS AI Governance Framework.
May 14–15, 2025 | New York, NY
FINOS Members get free access to both days of apidays NYC (a $990 value!), including a dedicated FINOS OSinFinance Developer Track on May 15 packed with hands-on sessions on FDC3, CDM, Legend, GitProxy, GenAI, and more for financial engineers. Don't miss this chance to connect and deepen your technical skills alongside peers in open finance.
Use Free FINOS Member Code: email events@finos.org for your code if you are a FINOS Member
📄 Why Attend & Full Details (PDF) - to share with colleagues
🇬🇧 Open Source in Finance Forum – London
June 24, 2025 | London, UK
Join FINOS's flagship European conference where financial services leaders and technologists meet to accelerate open collaboration and advance strategic initiatives like FDC3, CDM, and CCC. Connect with peers, see real-world implementations, and remember that FINOS Members attend for free!
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🌍 Global Digital Collaboration on Wallets & Credentials (GC25)
July 1–2, 2025 | Geneva, Switzerland
GC25 is a landmark, invite-only working summit convening intergovernmental organizations, standards bodies, and open source communities to shape the future of digital credentials, identity, and wallets. As a FINOS Member, you have exclusive access to participate and help represent financial services alongside global leaders from ICAO, WHO, World Bank, UNDP, W3C, ISO, Linux Foundation, OpenWallet, and more, in building the next-gen digital trust infrastructure.
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🇮🇹 LF Europe Roadshow – Finance Track (with FINOS)
July 8, 2025 | Milan, Italy
FINOS is bringing the open source finance conversation to continental Europe! Join us at the LF Europe Roadshow in Milan for a regional opportunity to connect on key themes like AI governance, FDC3, CDM, and cloud compliance, featuring real-world implementations.
➡️ Register & Learn More - Agenda coming soon
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Community EVENTS
AERON COMMUNITY MEETUPS - ADAPTIVE
June 4th (New York) & June 25th (London):
Join FINOS Member Adaptive's Aeron Community MeetUps for the latest updates on low-latency messaging and fault-tolerant trading technology incl. guest speakers, use case presentations, technical deep dives, Q&A sessions and networking.
XT25 FINTECH CONFERENCE - JUXT
June 12th (London):
Engineering Leaders from global banks, fintech companies and hedge funds are meeting in London organised by FINOS Member JUXT to explore how groundbreaking technology concepts, tools and solutions are shaping the future of financial services.
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
