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Financial Services Charter
Charter for the MCP Financial Services Interest Group.
Group Type
Interest Group
Mission Statement
The Financial Services Interest Group brings together stakeholders from regulated financial institutions to identify where MCP needs to adapt for compliance, auditability, and risk-controlled deployment. It gathers use cases and requirements from the financial sector, develops and validates domain-specific extensions, and scopes problems with broad applicability into SEPs or Working Groups so that innovations proven in regulated environments can benefit the wider MCP ecosystem.
Scope
In Scope
- Compliance and auditability: requirements for tamper-evident, portable records of what a tool call did, under what authority, and against which policy, so that MCP interactions can satisfy regulatory audit and incident-review obligations
- Data lineage and provenance: source attribution, citation, and consent metadata for data surfaced through MCP, so that downstream consumers can establish where information came from and on what basis it may be used
- Guardrails and attestation: verification frameworks and cryptographic attestations that let a regulated institution gain assurance about server identity, tool behavior, and the integrity of responses before acting on them
- Policy enforcement: declarative policies for tool usage and data handling, and the points at which they are enforced, so that institutions can encode regulatory and internal-control constraints as machine-checkable rules
- Finance-specific extensions: developing, maintaining, and gathering implementation experience on MCP extensions that address the above in the FSIG repository, including reference implementations and conformance testing
- Interoperability across institutions: common patterns and standards that allow regulated institutions to interoperate without each reinventing compliance plumbing
- SEP promotion: identifying extensions with applicability beyond financial services and shepherding them toward the core specification with core-maintainer sponsorship
- Regulatory liaison: translating constraints from regulators and industry bodies into concrete technical requirements and input for other groups
Out of Scope
- Competitively sensitive or non-public business information: pricing, costs, margins, customer lists, market segmentation, and competitive strategy, per the MCP Antitrust Policy
- General security threat modeling: MCP-wide attack-surface analysis belongs to the Security IG. This group provides financial-sector requirements as input and consumes its threat models
- Authorization protocol mechanics: OAuth flows, scopes, client registration, and token handling belong to the Authorization IG
- Product-specific compliance guides: step-by-step configuration for an individual host application, cloud platform, or institution is documentation for that product rather than protocol work
- Non-technical business discussions: legal interpretation, procurement, and commercial terms
Related Groups
- Security IG: attestation, auditability, and guardrails are shared concerns; the FSIG supplies regulated-deployment requirements and consumes the IG’s threat models
- Authorization IG: identity and access control for sensitive financial data sit at the boundary between the two groups
- Tool Annotations IG: trust and sensitivity annotations are directly relevant to financial tool exposure; the FSIG provides requirements as input
- Interceptors WG: interceptors are a primary enforcement point for the policy and guardrail requirements surfaced here
- Registry WG: server provenance and publishing metadata intersect with financial supply-chain and admission concerns
Leadership
| Role | Name | Organization | GitHub | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facilitator | Sambhav Kothari | Bloomberg | @sambhav | Initial |
| Facilitator | Peder Holdgaard Pedersen | Saxo Bank | @PederHP | Initial |
Membership
| Name | Organization | GitHub | Discord | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xin Fu | Bloomberg | @imfing | TBD | Participant |
| Kengo Arao | Bloomberg | @KengoA | TBD | Participant |
Open to anyone. Join the #financial-services-ig channel on the
MCP Contributors Discord. Calls are open and no approval is
required to attend or contribute. The group especially welcomes contributors from regulated
institutions who can bring real-world deployment constraints and help drive proposals forward.
Operations
| Meeting | Frequency | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Session | Every 2 weeks | 60 min | Use-case review, extension and proposal work, SEP scoping |
Meetings are held 16:00–17:00 London (BST/GMT). An agenda is shared in #financial-services-ig
ahead of each call, and notes with decisions and action items are published afterwards.
Discord: #financial-services-ig
Discussion Topics
The following items form the IG’s current agenda. This list is not exhaustive and will evolve as the group identifies new areas of interest.
| Item | Name | Status | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Regulatory audit & attestation: portable, verifiable event/claim models | Open | — |
| — | Data lineage & citation: provenance, consent metadata, source attribution | Open | — |
| — | Guardrails & security: verification frameworks and cryptographic attestations | Open | — |
| — | Policy enforcement: declarative policies for tool usage and data handling | Open | — |
Changelog
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-25 | Initial charter |
Last updated Oct 08, 2026