Financial technology executive brings more than 25 years of global leadership experience to strengthen Devexperts' product portfolio across the investment and trade lifecycle.

DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Devexperts today announced the appointment of Rainer Fuchsluger as Global Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. The privately held global financial technology company provides solutions used by more than 20 million traders worldwide every day.

Fuchsluger joins as Devexperts approaches its 25th anniversary in 2027. The company has more than 800 employees across 10 offices globally, with deep technical domain expertise in capital markets, serving hundreds of clients worldwide. His mandate is to extend Devexperts' value chain across the full investment and trade lifecycle and deliver greater value to clients through advanced technologies such as cloud computing and AI across its portfolio. He will also accelerate the company's international growth strategy.

The appointment follows the departure of Ben Hurley, who has decided to leave Devexperts to pursue new opportunities. Ben spent more than four years with the company, including the past two as CEO.

Fuchsluger's global leadership experience spans financial software, market data, exchange technology and critical market infrastructure, alongside extensive expertise in AI. His career includes senior leadership roles at LSEG, Wolters Kluwer, SS&C and Thomson Reuters. In addition, he served on the Group's Global Sustainability Governance Board at Wolters Kluwer. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Switzerland during his 25 years in the industry.

"Devexperts has always been built on exceptional engineering, advanced technology and long-standing, trusted client relationships. I would like to thank Ben for his leadership and commitment over the past four years and welcome Rainer at an important time for the company," said Michael Babushkin, Founder of Devexperts. "His deep knowledge of global financial markets, combined with a proven track record of scaling technology businesses across major financial centres, will help us build on our strengths and realise our ambitions for international growth."

"Devexperts has built something very special over nearly 25 years, combining deep capital markets expertise, advanced technology and exceptional people with strong client relationships, including banks, brokerages, exchanges and wealth managers," said Rainer Fuchsluger, Global Group CEO of Devexperts. "I'm grateful to Michael and the Board for their confidence in me and excited to build on the company's achievements."

With AI already embedded in more than half of its software development pipeline, Devexperts will build on these and many other capabilities under Fuchsluger's leadership to accelerate product development and deliver greater value to clients.

"Capital markets are evolving rapidly, driven by demand for trusted data and analytics, resilient market infrastructure and the accelerating adoption of cloud computing and AI," Fuchsluger added. "My priority is to stay close to our clients, understand their evolving needs and bring our capabilities closer together across the investment and trade lifecycle. By combining our expertise with continued investment in advanced technologies, we can strengthen our offering and help clients navigate increasingly complex markets without compromising on performance or resilience."

Next year, Devexperts will mark its quarter century with a global programme led by Fuchsluger, recognising the people, clients and technology that have shaped the company while setting out its vision for the future.

About Devexperts

Founded in 2002, Devexperts is a global financial technology company providing trading platforms, market data, exchange connectivity, analytics and critical market infrastructure to the capital markets. With more than 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide, the company serves hundreds of clients, including banks, brokerages, exchanges and wealth management firms. Its technology is used by more than 20 million traders every day.

Its portfolio includes DXtrade, a multi-asset trading and brokerage platform; dxFeed, its global market data and exchange connectivity business; and Devexa, an AI-powered client engagement platform. Together with its market analytics, exchange technology and infrastructure solutions, these capabilities support clients across the investment and trade lifecycle.

Devexperts combines deep capital markets expertise with advanced technology, including AI and cloud computing, to help clients grow, innovate and respond to evolving market demands.

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About Rainer Fuchsluger

Rainer Fuchsluger is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience leading FinTech, data and software businesses across global financial markets. He has deep expertise in capital markets, risk and regulatory technology, SaaS platforms, enterprise data and workflow solutions, developed through senior roles at LSEG, Wolters Kluwer, SS&C and Thomson Reuters. In addition to his business responsibilities, he has served on a Global Sustainability Governance Board. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Switzerland and currently resides in Dublin.

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- London Stock Exchange Group: Commercial leadership, Data & Feeds.

- Wolters Kluwer: Global Head of Strategic Planning & Business Development. Previously CEO / Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting.

- SS&C Technologies, ICE and Thomson Reuters: Senior and regional commercial leadership roles across Asia Pacific.

- Education: MBA, Vienna University of Economics and Business. Executive programmes at MIT (AI: Implications for Business Strategy) and the University of Oxford (Leading Sustainable Corporations).

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SciBase: Recalculation of warrants of series TO 2 following rights issue

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In accordance with the terms and conditions for warrants of series TO 2, which were issued in connection with the capital raise announced in April 2024, the number of shares that each warrant entitles the holder to subscribe for and the subscription price shall be recalculated following rights issues. Accordingly, SciBase Holding AB (the "Company" or "SciBase") has carried out a recalculation of warrants of series T0 2 due to the rights issue of shares that the board of directors resolved upon on September 3, 2026 (the "Rights Issue").

Following the completed recalculation, SciBase can announce that the number of shares that each warrant of series TO 2 entitles to subscribe for and the subscription price per share has changed in accordance with the following. Following the recalculation, one (1) warrant of series TO 2 entitles the holder to subscribe for 0.01 shares at a subscription price of SEK 37.47 per share.

Following the recalculation, one (1) warrant of series TO 2 entitles the holder to subscribe for 0.01 new shares in the Company during the period from and including on 3 April 2029, until and including 17 April 2029.

The terms and conditions for the warrants, including potential adjustments due to future share issues, are available on the Company's website.

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Michael Colérus, CEO, tel. +46703413472, e-mail: [email protected]

The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, on October 7, 2026 at 08.00 CET.

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SciBase is a global medical technology company, specializing in early detection and prevention in dermatology. SciBase develops, manufactures, and commercializes Nevisense, a unique point-of-care platform that combines AI and advanced EIS technology to elevate diagnostic accuracy, ensuring proactive skin health management.

Our commitment is to minimize patient suffering, allowing clinicians to improve and save lives through timely detection and intervention and reduce healthcare costs.

Built on more than 20 years of research at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, SciBase is a leader in dermatological advancements.

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Beyond Now launches agentic platform to power CSPs growth in the agentic economy

The Beyond Now Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform brings revenue, multi-party ecosystems and agentic AI together across the entire revenue lifecycle — helping CSPs and technology providers turn AI disruption into growth.

DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Now launched its Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform, enabling Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and technology providers to create, sell and monetize their own, partner and AI-powered services. The platform uses native agents to maximize revenue from their core business, grow through ecosystems, and succeed in a world of AI and increasingly agent-to-agent interactions.

AI is transforming CSPs' and technology providers' revenue lifecycle, creating new growth opportunities — from sovereign AI and GPU-as-a-service to AI applications, services and agents — and new ways to monetize them through usage, tokens and outcomes. But capturing these opportunities requires a new operating model. As agents increasingly work alongside people and systems, CSPs and technology companies need to expose and package their own assets, partner capabilities, AI services and models into intent-based propositions. These must be discoverable, assembled, sold, fulfilled and monetized at speed by people and increasingly by agents.

"AI is creating enormous growth opportunities, yet CSPs have so far captured just 2% of AI revenue. What's holding them back isn't a lack of opportunity, it's the lack of a commercial platform to execute on it and turn AI into real revenue growth," said Angus Ward, CEO of Beyond Now. "While much of the market is focused on building agent environments, agent platforms and agent orchestration models, we believe the bigger opportunity is leveraging agentic AI to grow the business you have today and capture what comes next. That's the thinking behind our new Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform: bringing revenue and ecosystems together in a native agentic environment, so CSPs and technology providers can compete for a greater share of the fast-growing agentic economy."

The platform connects capabilities traditionally fragmented across siloed IT and BSS environments and makes them available for people, systems and AI agents to act on through one commercial foundation. Its headless architecture, shared catalog, single data model and centralized commercial rules connect customers, products, partners, pricing, orders and services, giving people and agents the context to turn customer intent into personalized propositions, execute across the revenue lifecycle and increasingly transact agent-to-agent. For CSPs, this means moving from product to quote, order, fulfillment and cash faster, and automating more work with governed agent autonomy and human oversight. It also means making better use of existing assets and partner capabilities to respond to customer and market opportunities at greater speed and scale.

The platform is composable, modular, multi-tenant and event-driven, with open APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. Organizations can deploy capabilities alongside existing technology and expand over time, providing a path to agentic transformation without requiring wholesale replacement of core IT and BSS systems.

The platform is designed around three connected growth priorities:

- Maximize revenue: Turn customer intent into revenue faster by connecting discovery, selling, fulfillment and monetization, supporting everything from dynamic bundling, subscriptions and usage to outcomes, AI consumption and tokens.

- Multiply ecosystems: Combine first-party assets, partner capabilities and AI services into multi-party propositions, co-create and co-sell with solution and channel partners, and scale B2B2X models. Orchestrate orders, fulfillment, monetization and settlement across the multi-party ecosystem.

- Accelerate with agentic AI: Agentic AI is native to the platform, putting role-based agents to work across the revenue lifecycle alongside people and systems. Organizations can also build or bring their own agents and models, with the orchestration, business context and governance needed for agents to act individually or together.

Beyond Now works with CSPs and technology companies around the world, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, NTT and Verizon. The platform supports B2C, B2B and B2B2X business models.

More information about the Beyond Now Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform is available at: https://www.beyondnow.com/platform

About Beyond Now

Beyond Now: Growth. Activated.

Beyond Now is a fast-growing Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration platform for the age of AI, unlocking monetization and growth opportunities for communications and technology companies.

The Beyond Now Platform enables organizations to sell, monetize and orchestrate their own, multi-party and AI-powered services, connecting human, digital, system-to-system and increasingly agent-to-agent interactions across the entire revenue lifecycle.

Trusted by global leaders including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, Verizon, e& and BT, and supported by strategic alliances with AWS, Google, Microsoft, Accenture and HCLTech, Beyond Now delivers the platform — and the partnership — for the growth you need now, and everything next.

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United Nations Spotlight Initiative launches Sync or Storm, a new interactive game to help prevent violence against women and girls before it starts

Built on Equimundo: Center for Masculinity & Social Justice's research into boyhood and masculinity, the game aims to raise awareness among young people about the attitudes and behaviours that contribute towards violence against women and girls.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Nations Spotlight Initiative has introduced Sync or Storm, an immersive adventure game for young people, as part of the #WithHer digital advocacy campaign to build awareness, encourage positive intervention, and advance efforts to end violence against women and girls.

With nearly one in three women experiencing violence during their lifetime, the need for prevention is critical. As digital spaces become an increasingly important part of young people's lives, Sync or Storm reaches kids where they already spend their time, using interactive gameplay to encourage positive behaviours and collaborative problem-solving.

"Gaming has become an important space where young people connect, interact and shape how they see the world," said Koye Adeboye, Head of Communications for the United Nations Spotlight Initiative. "Through this campaign, we aim to reach some of the estimated 43 million Roblox users under the age of 13 who play every day. If we are serious about preventing violence before it starts, we need to engage young people in the spaces where they spend their time."

Developed by Bad Ape in collaboration with Equimundo and Spotlight Initiative, the interactive game encourages young players to reflect on how their actions affect others.

The game's foundation is informed by Equimundo's Man Box research in the US, UK and Mexico, which found that those with the most rigid views of manhood were up to five times more likely to bully or sexually harass others, and were also more likely to report depression and suicidal thoughts (Hill et al., 2020). The Global Early Adolescent Study also surveyed 10–14-year-olds globally and showed that gender norms are already entrenched by early adolescence.

Caroline Hayes, Senior Technical Specialist, Digital Strategies at Equimundo, said: "Boys don't form harmful ideas about manhood in isolation; they absorb them from the culture around them, including the games they play. Sync or Storm shows boys at a formative age that respect and cooperation are expressions of strength. That's exactly the kind of prevention work we need more of."

Sync or Storm is now available on Roblox.

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Linux Foundation Europe Report Finds Digital Sovereignty Drives European Tech Strategy, but Governance and AI Strain Present Major Hurdles

European organizations report strong returns from open source as AI adoption, regulation and technology sovereignty reshape software strategy

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, today released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe report in collaboration with LF Europe, LF Research and NeoNephos. The fifth annual report revealed that digital sovereignty is now firmly embedded in European technology strategy. Ninety-four percent of organizations say digital sovereignty is important, including 61% that consider it very important, while organizations with advanced open source governance report an average return of more than 4x their investment, compared with 3.6x among organizations without formal governance.

The findings point to a critical next step: European organizations seeking greater control over their technology supply chains must move beyond simply consuming open source software and participate in the openly governed ecosystems that develop and sustain it. European developers account for nearly 40% of contributions to foundational infrastructure projects including Kubernetes and OpenStack. At the same time, 94% of organizations are using or piloting generative AI coding tools, 48% maintain private forks of open source projects and 63% have increased investment in open source dependency management in response to regulatory pressure.

"Europe has clearly heard the message on digital sovereignty. The next step is participation," said Thierry Carrez, general manager, Linux Foundation Europe. "Open source gives organizations a way to reduce dependence on any single vendor or country, but consuming open source alone doesn't give you effective control over the technology. By contributing upstream and participating in open governance, European organizations can achieve greater autonomy, efficiently leveraging the global open source technology commons."

Additional findings from the 2026 report include:

- Governance remains uneven: 31% of European organizations still lack a formal open source governance framework, highlighting a gap between widespread adoption and strategic management of open source.

- AI is increasing the value of open source: 76% say generative AI coding tools increase the value they receive from open source, while 48% have increased their open source usage as a result.

- Private forks carry significant maintenance costs: Organizations maintaining private forks spend an average of 311 hours per release cycle patching 9.5 forks, while 28% cannot track those costs at all.

- Open source strengthens technical talent: 76% say open source involvement improves engineering skills and 53% say it supports recruitment and retention.

"Five years of research confirms how critical open source is to Europe's tech landscape," said Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research, Linux Foundation. "With the 2026 Tech Sovereignty Package expected to spur €2 billion in digital infrastructure investment, realizing that value requires more than adopting software – it demands strong governance and active community contribution."

The full 2026 State of Open Source in Europe report is now available. To learn more about membership to the Linux Foundation Europe, visit https://linuxfoundation.eu/en/join. For information about how to contribute to open source projects, review the Linux Foundation Open Source Guide book.

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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SciBase resolves on a set-off issue of shares to the guarantor in connection with the completed rights issue

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SciBase Holding AB (publ) ("SciBase" or the "Company") has today, on 7 October 2026, resolved on a set-off issue of 60,000 shares to Bergs Securities AB ("Bergs Securities") in its capacity as guarantor in the Company's recently completed rights issue of shares (the "Rights Issue"), for part of the guarantee compensation, in accordance with the terms of the guarantee commitment announced on 3 September 2026 (the "Compensation Issue"). The resolution by the Board of Directors has been made pursuant to the authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting on 19 May 2026. The subscription price amounts to SEK 15 per share, corresponding to the subscription price in the Rights Issue, and payment for the shares has been made by way of set-off against the part of Bergs Securities' claim, amounting to SEK 0.9 million, for guarantee compensation that they elected to receive in the form of new shares. All shares in the Compensation Issue have been subscribed for and allotted.

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Background

On 3 September 2026, the Board of Directors of SciBase resolved on the Rights Issue, the outcome of which was announced on 1 October 2026. In connection with the Rights Issue, Bergs Securities provided a guarantee commitment of approximately SEK 24.2 million. For the guarantee commitment, guarantee compensation is payable amounting to 10 percent of the guaranteed amount in cash or, alternatively, 12 percent of the guaranteed amount in newly issued shares in the Company at a subscription price corresponding to the subscription price in the Rights Issue. The guarantee compensation shall, according to the guarantee agreement, be paid in full or in part in either form.

Bergs Securities has notified the Company that it wishes to receive part of the guarantee compensation, totalling SEK 0.9 million, in the form of newly issued shares.

The Compensation Issue

In order to fulfil the Company's contractual obligation towards the guarantor, the Board of Directors has today, pursuant to the authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting on 19 May 2026, resolved on the Compensation Issue. The subscription price amounts to SEK 15 per share, which corresponds to the subscription price in the Rights Issue. Payment for the shares is made by way of set-off against part of Bergs Securities' claim for guarantee compensation of SEK 0.9 million. All shares in the Compensation Issue have been subscribed for and allotted.

Reasons for the deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights

The reason for the deviation from the shareholders' preferential rights is to fulfil the Company's obligation towards Bergs Securities under the guarantee agreement entered into in connection with the Rights Issue. The Board of Directors considers it to be in the interest of the Company and its shareholders that part of the guarantee compensation is paid in the form of newly issued shares rather than in cash, as the Company thereby retains cash that can be used in its operations. The terms of the guarantee compensation, including the possibility to receive the compensation in newly issued shares and the maximum number of shares that could be issued, were announced in connection with the resolution on the Rights Issue on 3 September 2026.

The subscription price in the Compensation Issue was determined through arm's length negotiations between the Company and Bergs Securities when the letter of intent regarding the guarantee commitment was entered into, and corresponds to the subscription price in the Rights Issue. Against this background, the Board of Directors considers the subscription price to be on market terms.

Number of shares, share capital and dilution

Through the Compensation Issue, the number of shares in SciBase increases by 60,000 shares, from 14,059,787 shares to 14,119,787 shares, and the share capital increases by SEK 300,000, from SEK 70,298,935 to SEK 70,598,935, calculated following registration of the Rights Issue with the Swedish Companies Registration Office. The Compensation Issue entails a dilution of approximately 0.4 percent of the number of shares and votes in the Company.

Advisers

SciBase has engaged Bergs Securities and Birchtree Advisory as financial advisers and BAHR as legal adviser in connection with the Rights Issue. Bergs Securities is also acting as issuing agent in connection with the Rights Issue.

For further information, please contact:

Michael Colérus, Chief Financial Officer, telephone +46 70 341 34 72

Certified Adviser (CA):

DNB Carnegie Investment Bank AB (publ)

Telephone: +46 8 588 68 570,

E-mail: [email protected] 

About SciBase:

SciBase is a global medical technology company specialising in early detection and prevention within dermatology. SciBase develops, manufactures and commercialises Nevisense, a unique point-of-care platform that combines AI and advanced EIS technology to enhance diagnostic accuracy and ensure proactive skin health management.

Our commitment is to minimise patient suffering, enabling physicians to improve and save lives through early detection and intervention and to reduce healthcare costs.

SciBase is built on more than 20 years of research at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and is at the forefront of advances in dermatology.

The Company has been listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2 June 2015 and the company's Certified Adviser is Carnegie Investment Bank AB (publ). Read more at www.scibase.com. For press releases and financial reports, visit: https://investors.scibase.se.

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This press release does not constitute an offer of, or an invitation to, acquire or subscribe for any securities in SciBase in any jurisdiction, either from SciBase or from anyone else. This press release is not a prospectus within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation") and has not been approved by any regulatory authority in any jurisdiction. No prospectus has been prepared in connection with the Rights Issue. The Company has prepared and published an information document in respect of the Rights Issue, which is available on the Company's website (https://investors.scibase.se). No prospectus or information document will be prepared or published in connection with the Compensation Issue.

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New open framework drives industry-wide alignment on SBOM practices in light of increasing regulatory and cybersecurity requirements within automotive ecosystem

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the release of the OpenChain Automotive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Framework 1.0, an open framework that defines a common approach for creating and sharing high-quality SBOMs tailored to the automotive industry.

As software becomes increasingly critical to modern vehicles, organizations are under growing pressure to improve visibility into software components and dependencies while meeting evolving regulatory and cybersecurity requirements. The OpenChain Automotive SBOM Framework provides a practical baseline that can be adopted and refined across the industry in order to meet these challenges facing the automotive industry.

Key elements of the framework include:

- A defined structure for describing software components and dependencies in Automotive SBOMs

- Guidance on required and recommended data fields, including completeness and quality criteria

- Alignment with existing SBOM standards such as SPDX (ISO/IEC 5962)

- Usage scenarios for suppliers and OEMs, including data exchange across the automotive supply chain

The framework provides guidance on how software component information should be described and exchanged using established formats, enabling suppliers and OEMs to produce SBOMs that meet shared expectations for completeness, consistency, and usability. It is designed to support practical use cases including software transparency, supply chain communication, and regulatory readiness.

"As software-defined vehicles grow in complexity, improving transparency and traceability across software components is becoming essential," said Mary Meixia Wang, General Manager of the OpenChain Project. "This first release provides practical guidance and helps advance more consistent SBOM practices across the automotive ecosystem."

The initiative began with early discussions between Keisuke Takase (Toyota), Ayumi Watanabe (Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.), and Masato Endo (Chair, OpenChain Automotive Working Group), reflecting a shared commitment to improving software transparency, traceability, and productivity in the automotive industry. It has since grown through collaboration with organizations, industry associations, and subject matter experts across the automotive and software ecosystems. Their input helped identify common challenges and shape a practical, broadly applicable framework grounded in real-world needs and emerging industry expectations.

The Automotive SBOM Project is part of the OpenChain Automotive Working Group and is designed to complement existing standards such as SPDX (ISO/IEC 5962). The framework does not replace these standards, but instead provides guidance on how they can be applied consistently within the automotive industry.

The project is open to participation from organizations and individuals worldwide and will continue to evolve based on industry feedback and adoption. To learn more about the OpenChain Project and visit the website or access the OpenChain Automotive SBOM Framework, here.

Supporting Quotes

"The release of the OpenChain Automotive SBOM Framework marks a significant milestone for the automotive industry. By establishing a common approach to creating and sharing high-quality, trustworthy SBOM data, this framework enhances transparency and trust across the entire supply chain. We believe its adoption will help improve supply chain reliability and contribute to greater engineering productivity and innovation across the automotive industry."

– Jiro Watabe, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.

"As the scale and complexity of automotive software development continue to grow with the advancement of software-defined vehicles, sharing reliable SBOM information across the supply chain is becoming increasingly important. We expect the OpenChain Automotive SBOM Framework to enable the industry to openly share effective processes and best practices, helping create an environment where engineers can focus more of their time and expertise on delivering value to customers."

– Hirofumi Inoue, President of Advanced R&D and Engineering Company, Toyota Motor Corporation

"Effective use of SBOMs is more than just generating or publishing them on-demand. Differing requirements and expectations between organizations and regulators open the door to SBOM quality issues – something that a shared framework and clear guidance on structures and data quality helps resolve at scale."

– Tim Mackey, Head of Software Supply Chain Risk Strategy, Black Duck Software, Inc.

"The Automotive SBOM gives the industry a much-needed common format for improving software supply chain transparency. FossID is excited to support it by helping automotive teams generate, import, translate, and validate SBOMs according to the new standard. Reliably automating the process is one way we plan to help accelerate the use of the Automotive SBOM across manufacturers and their supplier ecosystems."

– Stuart Dross, CEO, FossID

"As vehicle development becomes increasingly software-centric, including through the advancement of software-defined vehicles, visibility into software composition is becoming an important area of focus. Through its participation in this initiative toward SBOM standardization, Nissan will contribute to the development of a common foundation for the industry."

– Sugimoto Kazma, General Manager, Software Platform and Architecture Engineering Department, Software Defined Vehicle Engineering Division, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

"Volvo Cars has embedded SBOM practices into its vehicle development processes through our 'Continuous SBOM' program launched last year. By promoting a common approach across the supply chain, we can improve transparency and collaboration for us all while helping drive the evolution of Automotive SBOMs from license compliance and cybersecurity artifacts to become a foundation for software trust, provenance, safety, lifecycle governance, and supply chain intelligence."

– Carl-Eric Mols, Global Open Source Strategy Lead, Volvo Cars

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The OpenChain Project, hosted by the Linux Foundation, focuses on building trust in the open source supply chain. It develops open standards for open source compliance and security, helping organizations manage software licensing and risk across global ecosystems.

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The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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Within 100 days, OSERA welcomed 6 Premier members, established an open standard for AI-scale remediation and attestation of vulnerabilities in open source software, and delivered patches for more than 50 commonly used projects in the Java ecosystem.

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services vertical of the Linux Foundation, today announced at Open Source Summit Europe that the Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance (OSERA) is operational. Initial funding comes from six Premier members including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, NatWest, and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

Financial institutions rely heavily on similar open source software stacks. When a security vulnerability is discovered in one of these widely used projects, banks can end up developing or commissioning the same fixes separately OSERA addresses these redundancies by giving financial institutions a shared, open and transparent way to identify, fix and verify vulnerabilities in the open source software they rely on. By working together, members can reduce duplicated effort while helping strengthen the software that underpins the financial services industry.

What's available today

Following the intent-to-form announcement in June, in a matter of weeks, OSERA delivered:

- An open standard for fixing and verifying vulnerabilities: Within 3 weeks of operation, OSERA released the first version of its patching and attestation standard, developed through collaboration between financial institutions, patch producers and open source infrastructure leaders. The standard sets out the requirements a fix must adhere to before it can be trusted and used at scale, helping organizations adopt fixes more consistently and with greater confidence.

- First wave of high value patched projects: The alliance prioritized and delivered secure package updates with standard attestations across more than 50 widely used open source projects in the Spring and Java ecosystems. These remediations addressed publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities (CVE) and are available for immediate production usage by OSERA members. Moving forward, vendor maintainers will address newly disclosed vulnerabilities on these managed lines under a severity-based software license agreement (SLA).

"An open, verifiable standard for remediation delivers trust at scale," said Dov Katz, Managing Director and Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley, and Chair of the OSERA Remediation Standards Working Group. "That v0.1 was able to be published so efficiently shows the sector's desire to set its own high standard for what a patch must prove before anyone consumes it. This is especially critical to enable actual risk mitigation in production, as the industry at large is consuming open source from the community and from multiple patch vendors and coalitions."

To review the supported lines and the Remediation Standards, review the OSERA Prospectus.

A sovereign option for open source supply chain resiliency in the era of AI

Because financial institutions often rely on the same open source software, addressing vulnerabilities independently creates unnecessary cost and duplication across the industry. This is compounded by research showing that 1 in 5 financial institutions have separate teams maintaining private versions of the same projects, creating a "fork tax" that increases maintenance costs and technology risk.

As cyber threats evolve, addressing known vulnerabilities quickly and consistently is increasingly important. OSERA provides an open, member-governed approach that enables financial institutions, technology providers and maintainers to coordinate vulnerability responses that strengthen the open source software the industry relies on.

New resiliency regulations such as DORA, NIS2 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act are increasing expectations for global institutions to demonstrate robust, repeatable approaches to managing software vulnerabilities across complex technology ecosystems. OSERA can work alongside existing commercial and community support models: its source code is public, its governance is member-led under the Linux Foundation, and its standards are open. Recent efforts also demonstrate that organizations can use the service without changing their existing development processes, using existing proxies and package coordinates without requiring CI changes.

"OSERA turns open source resiliency from a fragmented internal burden into a collective operational capability and we are proving it with fast delivery this year, not a roadmap," said Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director of FINOS. "Upstream initiatives like Akrites secure the commons. OSERA is the regulated downstream: signed, standards-gated remediation delivered into production environments, on terms the industry itself sets."

Looking ahead

The alliance has defined a target delivery schedule through the end of 2026:

- Produce a minimum of 80 patches per month. Under the alliance's SLA, vendor maintainer Moderne will deliver patches to a secured platform with quarantine gates, being built by open source security experts ControlPlane. Growing participation from HeroDevs, RapidFort, Sonatype and Scott Logic will continue to develop the standardization process and accelerate production use of supported software versions.

- Deliver the first end-to-end release of the OSERA platform at the Open Source in Finance Forum NY in November. This is expected to continue driving down the cost per patch, enabling increased software coverage and capacity to respond to increases in AI vulnerabilities.

- Develop a per-project sponsorship model that lets firms directly fund and boost projects they depend on, in addition to the common pool prioritization.

- Collaborate with sister initiatives like Akrites. OSERA is highly complementary to Linux Foundation initiatives like Akrites, and will promote collaboration on remediation standards, and financial services priorities to compound value and avoid duplication.

Designed for every industry constituent

OSERA offers an open-first, transparent operational model suitable for everyone. While OSERA addresses a critical need for financial institutions, it is designed to provide benefits for all constituents in the software supply chain, from commercial patch producers to software composition analysis and registry vendors.  

To get involved:

- Financial institutions should join as OSERA members to consume financial services-grade hardened releases.

- Open source infrastructure vendors should become FINOS members to actively contribute to and ultimately adopt the remediation standards, ensuring their offerings meet the financial industry's needs.

- Commercial maintainers and patch producers should also consider becoming FINOS members to participate in remediation standards and be eligible to become vendor maintainers under alliance SLAs.

- Everyone can rebuild fixeson GitHub as hardened project lines.

Supporting Quotes

Peter Thomas, Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer, Deutsche Bank:

"The strength of OSERA lies in its practical execution inside existing enterprise environments. In our initial pilots, we proved that banks can pull hardened, standard-compliant releases through standard corporate proxies with zero friction to existing development pipelines. Replacing duplicate internal patching efforts with a shared, high-trust pipeline is a huge win for the industry."

Abe Batthish, Vice President, DevOps, RBC:

"So much of what we build runs on open source, and we want to help keep it safe and viable for everyone in the industry. RBC is excited to help lead the governance of OSERA's backpatching pipelines, holding vendor maintainers to clear standards and SLAs so every fix meets the same bar no matter who produces it."

About FINOS

FINOS (The Fintech Open Source Foundation) unites the financial services industry to build open technologies and standards that enhance profitability, improve resilience, and accelerate innovation. FINOS is the trusted community designed by regulated industry participants to solve industry-wide challenges and drive operational excellence and financial technology innovation. As part of the Linux Foundation, FINOS provides a neutral, well-governed home for open source collaboration across the industry. With a global community of more than 100 member organizations including major financial institutions, fintechs, and technology firms, FINOS advances open standards and production-grade open source for finance. This work embeds these technologies and standards into the core workflows, platforms, and policies of financial institutions, making them essential to how the industry builds, operates, and evolves. FINOS advocates for a clear focus on measurable ROI from open source adoption.

Learn more at www.finos.org.

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xFusion Joins the Linux Foundation to Support Open Source Innovation

xFusion will contribute its infrastructure expertise to open source communities across the Linux Foundation

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe — xFusion, a leading global provider of AI computing infrastructure, today announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, the world's leading organization for open source collaboration, as a Silver member. As part of its engagement, xFusion is also participating in the SODA Foundation, the Linux Foundation community focused on data and AI infrastructure. Through its membership, xFusion plans to engage with open source communities working across cloud and AI infrastructure and contribute technical expertise informed by its work in computing systems, infrastructure efficiency and operations.

As both an AI infrastructure provider and an active open source contributor, xFusion also plans to deepen its engagement with upstream open source communities supporting cloud and AI infrastructure. This work will inform the continued development and interoperability of FusionOS while creating opportunities for xFusion engineers to contribute to relevant community-led projects. As enterprises deploy increasingly heterogeneous AI environments — spanning multiple accelerators, foundation models, inference engines and software platforms — the industry is still developing common, open methodologies for measuring, managing and optimizing AI infrastructure. Through the Linux Foundation and its communities, xFusion will collaborate with technology companies, researchers and enterprise users worldwide to help develop open benchmarks, reference architectures and operational best practices for enterprise AI infrastructure.

xFusion's open source participation is anchored by the xFusion Singapore Open Lab, the company's global open innovation hub. Located in Singapore, one of the world's leading technology and business hubs connecting East and West, the Open Lab provides a neutral platform where AI hardware, foundation models, software platforms, researchers, enterprises and open source communities from different innovation ecosystems can collaborate, evaluate and benchmark technologies using open methodologies.

"AI infrastructure can only reach its full potential through open collaboration. The industry needs vendor-neutral methodologies to measure, manage and optimize increasingly diverse AI environments," said Fan RuiQi, CTO & President of Central Research Department, xFusion. "Joining the Linux Foundation allows us to work with the global community to build those foundations — and through our Singapore Open Lab, to provide a neutral platform where innovations from across the world's technology ecosystems advance together."

"xFusion builds infrastructure that AI runs on, and it's putting its benchmarking and observability work into open projects where others can build on it," said Michael Dolan, SVP of Legal and Strategic Programs, Linux Foundation. "We welcome them to the Linux Foundation and building on prior collaborations like SODA Foundation."

Building on its AI inference benchmarking research, xFusion is developing an open framework for AI Infrastructure Efficiency & Intelligence — bringing standardized observability, benchmarking, efficiency measurement and operational intelligence to heterogeneous AI environments. Aitra, an open reference platform incubating under the SODA Foundation, is among the first implementations of this vision.

Through its membership, xFusion intends to:

- Contribute to Linux Foundation projects and working groups focused on AI infrastructure operations, observability and benchmarking, including within the SODA Foundation.

- Contribute technical expertise and code to relevant upstream projects.

- Engage the SODA Foundation community on open approaches to AI infrastructure efficiency and operations.

- Use the xFusion Singapore Open Lab to support collaborative research, testing and benchmarking.

- Advance open benchmarking methodologies for AI inference performance and infrastructure efficiency.

- Continue to develop Aitra as an open reference implementation under SODA Foundation governance.

About xFusion

XFUSION INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD. (xFusion) is a leading global provider of computing infrastructure, smart energy solutions, and related services. Driven by the vision "Let Computing Serve You Better," xFusion focuses on creating value for its customers and partners, accelerating digital transformation across a wide range of industries. Headquartered in Singapore, xFusion has a substantial global presence, including 8 research centers, 7 regional offices, and 6 Global Technical Assistance Centers (GTACs). xFusion's commitment to providing innovative computing and energy solutions has enabled it to serve over 10,000 customers in more than 110 countries and regions, including the telecom, finance, internet, transportation, and energy sectors.

The xFusion Global Supply Center in Penang, Malaysia, is designed for an annual production capacity of 200,000 servers, encompassing xFusion's complete product portfolio. The center's streamlined logistics and delivery capabilities ensure timely and efficient service to customers worldwide. This strategic location allows xFusion to optimize its operations, guaranteeing the highest quality standards and efficient delivery of its products and services.

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MarketsVox Gives Clients More Choice With 24/7 Gold, Silver and Oil CFD Trading

LONDON, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clients of established online broker MarketsVox can now fit commodity CFD trading around their schedules with 24/7 access to Gold, Silver, WTI and Brent crude. The introduction is available to all clients and removes traditional trading-hour restrictions for these instruments.

"Markets can react quickly to events happening anywhere in the world, and clients should not have to wait for a trading session to open," said Joe Roeder, CEO and Co-founder of MarketsVox. "With 24/7 trading for Gold, Silver, WTI and Brent crude, we are giving our clients more time, more flexibility and a simpler way to stay connected to the commodities they follow."

Gold and silver attract attention during changing economic conditions, while WTI and Brent crude remain closely followed indicators of global energy developments. Round-the-clock CFD access gives clients more freedom to decide when they engage with these instruments as news and events unfold.

Choice also extends to how clients approach trading through the broker's existing copy trading service. Clients can follow strategies from qualified, experienced traders, while strategy providers can share their expertise, build an audience and earn additional income.

The new trading hours sit alongside continued work on the tools supporting these client and partner activities. MarketsVox's 2026 development roadmap includes platform and Client Area enhancements, with recent Partner Area updates delivering improved filtering, daily network monitoring and more detailed information on referred accounts.

About MarketsVox

MarketsVox was founded in London in 2019 by a team of traders who wanted to make trading more accessible. What started as a trading signal provider has since grown into a global multi-asset broker serving clients in more than 90 countries.

Today, MarketsVox offers a range of solutions including Copy Trading, MAM, and PAMM. With a strong focus on technology, community, and continuous improvement, the company continues to develop tools and services that help traders and partners get more from the markets.

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