--- title: "This Week At FINOS: Week Of September 28, 2026" description: Here's what's happening this week in the FINOS community. Please forward this newsletter to colleagues and industry partners who you think will be interested in FINOS. 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[**This Week's Meetings**](https://www.finos.org/calendar) | [**Upcoming Events**](https://www.finos.org/news-and-events) --- 🗽 **CDM NYC Seminar 2026: Agenda Now Live** 🗽 **October 8 | NYC** Explore our newly released agenda for an afternoon of technical and business deep dives in New York. Sessions include an optional Intro to CDM pre-session, DRR implementation, collateral automation, Transforming Financial Regulation with Open Source & AI, and Implementing AI & the CDM. Space is capped at 75 attendees. ➡️ [**Reserve Your Spot**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2026-10-08-cdm-nyc-seminar-2026) --- ✅ **Nominations Open: FINOS Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)** ✅ Are you an active contributor to a FINOS project or an employee of a FINOS member organization? Nominate yourself for the technical governing body of FINOS. They work in close collaboration with the FINOS team and the Governing Board to provide technical oversight for the projects in the FINOS portfolio. Nominations close October 23 for four vacancies. ➡️[**Nominate Yourself Here**](https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/issues/new?template=toc-candidacy.yml) ➡️[**TOC Responsiblities**](https://github.com/finos/technical-oversight-committee/blob/main/operations/governance.md) --- 🗣️ **FINOS at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe** 🗣️ **October 7 - 9 | Prague** FINOS Executive Director Gabriele Columbro will be taking the stage at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague with a keynote exploring the role of open source in the financial services industry. Gab will also join Francesco Beltramini of ControlPlane for a session on OSERA, “Patching Is Only Half of the Problem: How OSERA Helps Financial Institutions Grow the OSS Supply Chain Resiliency (and Create Opportunities for Maintainers).” ➡️ [**Agenda Details**](https://sched.co/2WCZK) ➡️ [**Learn About OSERA**](https://osera.finos.org/) ### [WEEK OF 28 SEPTEMBER - MEETINGS](https://calendar.finos.org/)   [**Monday, September 28**](https://calendar.finos.org/?view=day&date=2026-09-28) - FDC3 Sail Project Meeting - InnerSource SIG - Labs - CyberThirdEye - SDLC Governance Framework Working Group Meeting - Short [**Tuesday, September 29**](https://calendar.finos.org/?view=day&date=2026-09-29) - CDM Contribution Review Working Group - AI Readiness SIG - Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL) Working Session [**Wednesday, September 30**](https://calendar.finos.org/?view=day&date=2026-09-30) - Spring Bot Project Meeting - CDM Collateral Working Group - Distinguished Engineer Community Quarterly SIG Meeting - Fluxnova - AI Working Group Meeting - Physical Risk and Resilience [**Thursday, October 1**](https://calendar.finos.org/?view=day&date=2026-10-01) - CCC- Working Group: Compliant Financial Infrastructure (EU/APAC) - FDC3 Use Cases and Workflows Discussion Group - FINOS Morphir Project Meeting - Zenith - Emerging Technologies SIG - Architecture as Code Office Hours - CCC - Working Group: Communications / All Hands [**Friday, October 2**](https://calendar.finos.org/?view=day&date=2026-10-02) - A11y Theme Builder Project Meeting - Data Commons - OpenGris Project Meeting ### 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**](https://www.finos.org/hosted-events/2026-10-08-cdm-nyc-seminar-2026) --- 💻 **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**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9617891588996/WN_mWNVM3-vSBuGJK5bpKmtcw) --- 💻 **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**](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/1217891578343/WN_DncZGnGNTo-NH6v6XnYKSw) --- 🗽 **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**](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/) **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**](https://bostonfintechweek.org/agenda/?date=2026-09-22&showSession=986066) --- **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**](https://events.isda.org/CDM-Smart-Contract) --- **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**](https://www.icmagroup.org/events/fintech-and-digitalisation-forum-2026/)  --- **Growing InnerSource Through OSPO Enablement** **October 6 | Virtual** Join FINOS InnerSource SIG Maintainer Pooi Ling Cheong (NatWest) as she shares NatWest's journey of using OSPO-led enablement to grow InnerSource from an emerging practice into a broader organisational initiative. ➡️ [Register Here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-innersource-through-ospo-enablement-tickets-2002064853872) --- Have a great week and please contact [**marketing@finos.org**](mailto:marketing@finos.org) if you have any questions or you would like to take part in any marketing related activities.   Kind regards, FINOS Team [![Sign Up for FINOS Updates](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2419532/7e3e38b2-955b-4ea4-b5fc-292eac773329.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2419532/7e3e38b2-955b-4ea4-b5fc-292eac773329) ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [← This Week At FINOS: Week Of September 21, 2026](https://www.finos.org/this-week-at-finos/week-of-september-21-2026) [![FINOS Logo](https://www.finos.org/hs-fs/hubfs/sofin%20assets/SOFIN%20LOGOS/FINOS_Icon_Wordmark_White.png?width=689&height=971&name=FINOS_Icon_Wordmark_White.png "FINOS Logo")](https://www.finos.org/) [![Twitter logo](https://finos.org/hubfs/2419532/FINOS/website/logos/social-logos/twitter-blue-social-panel.png)](https://twitter.com/finosfoundation) [![GitHub logo](https://finos.org/hubfs/2419532/FINOS/website/logos/social-logos/github-black-social-panel.png)](https://finos.github.io) [![LinkedIn logo](https://finos.org/hubfs/2419532/FINOS/website/logos/social-logos/linkedin-blue-social-panel.png)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/finosfoundation) [![SlideShare logo](https://finos.org/hubfs/2419532/FINOS/website/logos/social-logos/Homepage%20Social%20Panel/slideshare-logo.png)](https://www.slideshare.net/finosfoundation) [![YouTube logo](https://finos.org/hubfs/2419532/FINOS/website/logos/social-logos/Homepage%20Social%20Panel/youtube_logo-1.png)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJAdRALzJ7J7snubrb_Y-Q) [Contact Us](https://www.finos.org/contact-us) [info@finos.org](mailto:info@finos.org) +1 (650) 665-9773 [Privacy | ](https://www.finos.org/privacy-policy)[Terms of Service |](https://www.finos.org/terms-of-service)[Community Code of Conduct |](https://www.finos.org/code-of-conduct)[Email Preferences](https://www.finos.org/hs/manage-preferences/unsubscribe-simple)