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FINOS vs ISO 42001: What to Choose

The ITSM Practice: Elevating ITSM and IT Security Knowledge

Show Notes

Fintech leaders: stop defaulting to ISO 42001. Discover how FINOS empowers you to design scalable, audit-ready AI governance before regulation forces your hand. Learn to align controls, reduce risk, and build governance by design—not by pressure.

In this episode, we answer to: What makes FINOS a powerful alternative to ISO 42001? How can fintechs design governance before audits hit? Why does governance fail without alignment?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode: FINOS website, article "AI Strategic initiative series: Building an AI Governance Framework - Key Takeaways from the NYC Workshop", link https://www.finos.org/blog/building-an-ai-governance-framework-key-takeaways-from-the-nyc-workshop

FINOS website, article "FINOS AI Governance Framework v1.0 — Turning Drafts into Deployable Guardrails", link https://www.finos.org/blog/finos-ai-governance-framework-v1.0-turning-drafts-into-deployable-guardrails

Air Governance website, article "A heuristic approach to identifying GenAI risks", link https://air-governance-framework.finos.org/heuristic-assessment.html

Air Governance website, article "FINOS AI Governance Framework", link https://air-governance-framework.finos.org

GitHub website, repo "finos/ai-governance-framework - Public", link https://github.com/finos/ai-governance-framework

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