The 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services (OpenAlex (recherche mondiale))

Summary

• Financial services contributors generated 1,260,883 commits to public GitHub repositories in 2026, representing a 63% increase year-over-year.p.9
• 88% of respondents agree that open source software is valuable to the future of their organization.p.7
• 93% of organizations surveyed permit open source contribution in some form.p.18
• 58% of surveyed organizations have implemented an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) or similar initiative.p.16
• 78% of organizations report being mostly or fully aware of the open source components running in their systems.p.22
• 64% of respondents work at organizations that have deployed agentic AI in production.p.34

Key insights

1. GitHub commits by financial sector users reached 1,260,883 across 67,479 unique public repositories in 2026.p.9
2. Security vulnerabilities in open source components represent the top concern for financial institutions, cited by 46% of respondents.p.24
3. 71% of surveyed organizations report maintaining internal forks of open source projects.p.24
4. 47% of respondents identified industry standards as the area where financial services organizations can derive the greatest value from open source collaboration.p.26
5. Cybersecurity, incident, and threat intelligence data was identified by 52% of respondents as the most valuable non-confidential open data set.p.29
6. Security and privacy risks are the primary barrier preventing organizations from using AI agents in production, cited by 52% of respondents.p.37
7. 87% of survey respondents report that AI delivered productivity gains in their organization within the last 12 months.p.34