This Week At FINOS

This Week At FINOS: Week Of September 21, 2026

Written by FINOS Team | Sep 21, 2026, 9:00:00 AM

In this week’s update: catch FINOS on stage at Boston Fintech Week, read Probabl's new blog on agentic AI in banking featuring Gabriele Columbro and Hilary Carter, and register for our Q4 All Community Call.

This Week's Meetings | Upcoming Events

📆 In Boston for Fintech Week? Join Gab Columbro on the Main Stage

Catch FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro on Tuesday, September 22 for "Owning the Stack: Open Source Fintech AI Innovation". Gab joins Jose M. Plehn, Gregg Schoenberg, and Tricia Wang at Morris Auditorium to discuss why open source is essential for controlling AI models, data pipelines, and enterprise risk.

➡️ View Agenda Here

🤖 What Blocks Agentic AI in Banking? Gab Columbro & Hilary Carter Weigh In

Probabl interviewed FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro and Linux Foundation SVP of Research Hilary Carter to explore the necessary conditions for agentic AI in financial services. Read how open source governance, machine-readable compliance, and shared standards help banks move AI agents from internal experiments into trusted production workflows.

➡️ Read the Blog

💻 Q4 FINOS All Community Call

October 21 | Virtual

With OSFF New York right around the corner, we have massive foundation updates, deep dives into our rapidly expanding AI initiatives, and the latest release news from our top project maintainers. Whether you are tracking the progress of our AI Governance as Code, Fluxnova, or SDLC Common Controls, this session is your direct line to the heart of the FINOS ecosystem.

➡️ Register Here

WEEK OF 21 SEPTEMBER - MEETINGS

Monday, September 21

  • Inclusive Engineering Working group
  • InnerSource SIG
  • Labs - CyberThirdEye
  • KDB Project Meeting
  • Git Proxy Project Meeting

Tuesday, September 22

  • Architecture as Code Working Group - DevOps Automation
  • Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session

Wednesday, September 23

  • Spring Bot Project Meeting
  • AI Governance Framework Working Session
  • Physical Risk and Resilience
  • CDM Derivatives Working Group
  • FINOS Technical Oversight Committee Meeting

Thursday, September 24

  • CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (EU/APAC)
  • FDC3 Standard Working Group
  • Architecture as Code Office Hours
  • CCC - Working Group: Website Improvement
  • CCC Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (NA/LATAM)
  • Applied GenAI bi-weekly call

Friday, September 25

  • Trader X Project Meeting
  • A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting
  • Data Commons
  • XR in Finance

FINOS EVENTS

🗽 CDM NYC Seminar 2026

October 8 | NYC

Join FINOS and the CDM community for an afternoon of presentations and discussions regarding the Common Domain Model benefits across the securities processing lifecycle. The afternoon includes a keynote address, four 30-minute presentations, and a networking reception to close out the event.

➡️ Register Here

💻 OS in Finance Webinar: How Frontier AI Changes Tolerable Risk - Chainguard | October 14 | Virtual

Frontier AI models can now surface dormant vulnerabilities and chain weaknesses across the software supply chain faster than traditional security processes can investigate and patch them. Join FINOS Gold Member Chainguard and their Field CISO, John Sapp, to explore how financial institutions can rethink open source governance as risks accelerate. This session will cover why vulnerability exploitation has overtaken phishing as a leading FinServ attack vector and how to build stronger software integrity into your lifecycle without disrupting business-critical systems.

➡️ Register Here

💻 Q4 FINOS All Community Call

October 21 | Virtual

With OSFF New York right around the corner, we have massive foundation updates, deep dives into our rapidly expanding AI initiatives, and the latest release news from our top project maintainers. Whether you are tracking the progress of our AI Governance as Code, Fluxnova, or SDLC Common Controls, this session is your direct line to the heart of the FINOS ecosystem.

➡️ Register Here

🗽 OSFF New York

November 4-5 | NYC

Join us in NYC on November 4–5 for two days of technical deep-dives and executive strategy. Day 1 focuses on Fluxnova Con and enterprise process orchestration, with broader conference tracks covering AI Governance, OSERA, FDC3, HPC, and open compliance. Full workshop schedules and speaker announcements are coming soon.

➡️ Register Here with Code TWAFOSFFNY20 for 20% Off

FEATURED EVENTS

Boston Fintech Week

September 22-25 | Boston

Join FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro at Boston Fintech Week on September 22 for the panel session, "Owning the Stack: Open Source Fintech AI Innovation."

➡️ View Gab's Session Here

CDM Smart Contracts Taskforce: Interest Rate Resets

September 23 | Virtual

In this session, Tokenovate, together with ISDA, will demonstrate how Smart Contracts extend the CDM into standardised execution of multi-step processes. They will show how related benefits reduce operational risk - thus creating a foundation for greater efficiency and interoperability across the financial markets.

➡️ Register Here

ICMA FinTech & Digitalisation Forum 2026

September 29 | London

The Forum returns in 2026 for a full day of insightful discussion on the future of capital markets. The in-person event will look at the ongoing digital transformation of capital markets, including DLT-based bonds, the integration of AI into various parts of the bond workflow, the rise of stablecoins and the importance of data standards for the adoption of new technology and interoperability.

➡️ Register Here 

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