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    July 2, 2026 · For immediate release

    iTmethods Joins the Linux Foundation, FINOS, and Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Governance Standards for Regulated Agentic AI

    Archived release, July 2, 2026. The current lineup is Reign Factory, Reign Gateway and Reign Ops, all available today.

    Toronto-based company brings runtime control, evidence, and model portability to the open standards shaping trustworthy autonomous AI in financial services and other regulated industries.

    TORONTO, July 2, 2026 — iTmethods, the company building the control and assurance layer for enterprise agentic AI, today announced it has joined the Linux Foundation as a Silver member. Through its participation in the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) and the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), iTmethods will contribute its expertise in runtime governance, tamper-evident evidence, and model portability to the open standards that will determine how autonomous AI is trusted in regulated environments.

    As banks, insurers, and other regulated institutions move agentic AI from pilot to production, the ability to prove control is becoming a prerequisite for deployment. iTmethods addresses this through Continuous Agentic Assurance: the governance, evidence, and portability layer that lets organizations run any model, swap models under pressure, and demonstrate control to regulators.

    The company is joining three interconnected open-source efforts shaping the foundation for trusted agentic AI:

    • The Linux Foundation provides the neutral governance ground for the most widely adopted open standards.
    • FINOS, the financial services arm of the Linux Foundation, is leading work on responsible AI governance through its AI Fund (anchored by DTCC, Morgan Stanley, RBC, and NatWest) and the newly announced Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance (OSERA).
    • The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is developing open standards for interoperable autonomous agents, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

    iTmethods is already active in this ecosystem. They provide a managed, governed implementation of Fluxnova, a FINOS open source project, applying runtime governance and tamper-evident evidence to autonomous workflows in regulated environments. This hands-on experience is what iTmethods brings to the standards effort.

    “In the highly regulated financial services industry, compliance must be automated, and infrastructures must be observable,” said Olivier Poupeney, Field CTO at FINOS. “That’s why we are collectively building open-source standards and tools—including the AI Governance Framework (AIGF), Common Cloud Controls (CCC), Fluxnova, and CALM, to provide the Governance-as-Code pipeline necessary to scale AI responsibly. We are excited to welcome iTmethods, whose runtime expertise will help the industry safely move agentic AI into production.”
    “Open standards will decide who gets trusted in the agentic era,” said Paul Goldman, CEO of iTmethods. “The missing piece in much of this work is the control and assurance layer that proves what an agent actually did. We are joining to bring that operator perspective from inside regulated environments.”

    iTmethods also operates Reign Factory, its governed autonomous software development platform, and publishes a weekly series on governing agentic AI in regulated industries.

    About iTmethods

    iTmethods Inc. builds and operates Reign: Reign Factory, Reign Gateway and Reign Ops, each available today.

    Founded in Toronto in 2005, iTmethods holds AWS Advanced Tier and Validated MSP designations, and Silver membership of the Linux Foundation and the Agentic AI Foundation. It is a FINOS member. Reign Ops holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation; the report is available under non-disclosure.

    About iTmethods updated October 27, 2026.

    Contact: Paul Goldman, CEO, iTmethods, press@itmethods.com

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