Navigating the Agentic AI Guardrails: Why Open Source is the Key to AI in Regulated Industries

Last week, I had the pleasure of standing before a packed room at the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF), a FINOS-hosted event taking place (at long last!) in my home town of Toronto. The audience was filled with familiar faces from Canadian and global banks, and the burgeoning fintech ecosystem, including a few cryptoasset pioneers. I was reminded of my own roots in the financial services sector, which began with obtaining my securities license through our regulator, the Ontario Securities Commission, and how the intersection of technology and regulation shapes so many of the conversations and activities within FINOS, except on a global regulatory scale.