Fidelity Investments has upgraded its membership in the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) to the Platinum level, further solidifying its role in the formation of Fluxnova, a FINOS-hosted open-source orchestration platform, officials say. A Platinum membership with FINOS is priced at $200,000 annually. Fluxnova is intended to address “needs around workflow automation, vendor independence, and long-term infrastructure sustainability,”… Read More >>
DTCC & FINOS Host an Open Source A.I. Hackathon
Officials at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) and the Fintech Open-Source Foundation (FINOS) recently announced that they are conducting the annual “Innovate.DTCC: Industry-Powered AI Hackathon,” from Feb. 23 to Feb 27, 2026. Participation in the hackathon is team-based only and individual entries are not allowed, officials note. “Teams may be of any size;… Read More >>
CDM Is a Good Fit for DLT: Q&A
(Securities operations rely on software, software-based systems, and a web of application links that offer essential integrations. What can help Ops teams in these situations are models that ease the implementation challenges. One such aid is the Common Domain Model (CDM), a financial product and event model that includes code generators, producing software libraries in… Read More >>
ISDA & Tokenovate to Push for CDM-Based Ops
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Tokenovate, a provider of workflows supporting collateral and post-trade management, have launched a task force within the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) to hasten the creation of operations that leverage the Common Domain Model (CDM). The task force effort is in response to “growing market demand for… Read More >>
FINOS Platform Can Help Orchestrate Ops
An open-source orchestration platform, dubbed Fluxnova, launched by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) at its Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) in New York City this week, can help improve back-office functions such as reconciliation, reporting, and regulatory workflows, officials say. Hosted by FINOS, Fluxnova was developed in partnership with Fidelity Investments, NatWest Group,… Read More >>
Microsoft Joins FINOS as Platinum Member
Microsoft has become a Platinum Member of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), part of the Linux Foundation, and will be expanding its leadership role within the FINOS community, officials say. “With this expanded engagement, Microsoft is the first cloud service provider joining the FINOS Governing Board, represented by Allison Nachtigal, vice president, Azure chief… Read More >>
It’s Full Speed Ahead for FINOS
The open source movement among financial services firms, including those working in capital markets, under the leadership of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) shows no sign of slowing down with the news last week that FINOS has more than 100 members — a year-over-year increase of 20 percent. Some of the new FINOS members… Read More >>
BlackRock & Morgan Stanley Embrace Desktop Integration Standard
A greater level of desktop application interoperability between buy- and sell-side firms may be coming as BlackRock and Morgan Stanley embraced an open source standard overseen by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), which held its annual Open Source in Finance Forum in New York City (OSFF NY) last week. The standard known as FDC3… Read More >>
FINOS Enlists Industry in A.I. Governance Framework Launch
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is calling “groundbreaking” its first draft of the “A.I. Governance Framework” for financial institutions, a vendor-agnostic document that focuses on 15 risks and 15 controls tailored for artificial intelligence systems that use Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are computational models “capable of language generation or other natural language processing… Read More >>
Open Source Helps Wall Street Innovate Faster
(Gabriele Columbro, executive director for the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), spoke to FTF News about a variety of subjects during the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) sponsored by FINOS and held in New York City last week. Columbro focused on the Common Cloud Controls (CCC) effort to formulate consistent controls for cloud computing… Read More >>
