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The financial services industry is taking a major leap forward in open, AI-native desktop infrastructure. Today, FINOS is thrilled to announce FINOS Workspace: an open-source, self-hosted desktop platform that brings analytical applications, market data widgets, and AI-assisted workflows into a single interface.
FDC3 is a standard that allows applications across the industry to work together in seamless, joined-up workflows. A user can select an instrument in one application and have another display its chart, news or trading information, without each pair of applications needing its own integration.
Start your week with a hands-on workshop, before heading into two days of talks with senior leaders and technologists from banking, technology, open source and policy.
The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) New York is just days away. On November 4-5, 900+ leaders from the world’s largest financial institutions, technology providers and open source communities will gather at Convene Brookfield Place to share what’s working, launch what’s next and make the connections that move the industry forward.
A single threat investigation in a financial institution can take six hours. Sometimes more. An analyst sits across multiple dashboards, manually pulling signals from firewalls, endpoints, identity systems, and proxies, trying to stitch a coherent picture together before the window closes. By the time that picture is clear, the damage may already be done. And the analyst who built it is a little more burned out than they were yesterday.
This is not a hypothetical. This is Tuesday in most security operations centers across financial services.
Join us for a recap of our 2026 Q4 All Community Call, where we shared exciting updates from across the FINOS ecosystem! In this session, we covered key announcements, upcoming events, and the latest initiatives in open source in finance.
Whether you missed the live call or want to revisit some of the insights, we’ve got you covered with the full recording and slides below. Don't miss out on this opportunity to stay connected with the FINOS community and catch up on the latest developments.
What began across the Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance (OSERA) as targeted patching experiments has expanded into an extensive patch library covering older Java ecosystems, complex build variations, and end-of-life frameworks. To bridge the gap between open source fix creation and enterprise deployment, the industry needs a stable, transparent, bank-consumable format. Through FINOS, the financial services community is establishing OSERA Remediation Standards - an open specification defining what any patch must prove before it can be safely consumed in a regulated production environment.
In today’s highly regulated technology landscape, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) must be executed with rigor, discipline, and an increasing focus on compliance. Operating under the FINOS DevOps Automation Special Interest Group (SIG), the SDLC Common Controls Catalog (SDLC Controls) is an official FINOS incubating project creating a shared, open reference library for software governance controls across the financial services industry. By establishing common definitions, implementations, and patterns, the working group reduces duplication, prevents drift, and enables institutions to focus on innovation rather than reinventing control frameworks.
As financial institutions rapidly adopt generative AI into their software engineering workflows, maintaining auditability through an open format that prevents vendor lock-in has become a critical governance priority. To address this gap, konspekt has been contributed to FINOS Labs as an individual open-source contribution from maintainer Denis Urusov. konspekt is a proposed open standard for a portable, human-readable record of project decisions, open questions, artifacts, and provenance as work evolves across generative-AI tools. It gives engineering teams a durable, vendor-neutral audit trail that lives outside any single conversation, model, or platform.
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