Northern Trust Corporation announced at Snowflake?s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, that it is a founding member of the Financial Services Working Group under Open Semantic Interchange (OSI). OSI is an open source initiative designed to help organizations work from shared, consistent data definitions. Convening financial institutions and technology partners, the OSI Financial Services Working Group will focus on harmonizing this fragmented data through an open, industry-neutral semantic model framework.

This specialized effort ensures that proprietary institutional data and third-party market intelligence share a consistent logical layer, enabling AI agents to navigate with precision, grounding, and scale that is essential for the Agentic Era. Through its participation, Northern Trust Corporation is helping advance shared data standards to improve interoperability across the financial ecosystem and support a common understanding among institutions, clients, and technology providers. OSI is poised to transform interoperability within the data and AI ecosystem by providing a transparent, community-driven standard.

This collaborative effort under the OSI umbrella establishes the grounded context essential for the next frontier on innovation.