Some good stuff announced at the Office Developers Conference.  One of the more interesting things is below:

The Financial Services OBA Component Library is a comprehensive set of 90+ OBA components that span across key areas in the Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets industries. This large set of  OBA components aim to solve industry concerns in the FSI verticals. All OBA components are based on both common financial schemas and standard web service protocols. These production grade OBA components accelerate both custom development and partner purchased solutions as they are in line with FS business process payloads.  The components are built in a composite way. This enables customers to assemble OBA components into existing or new business processes. You can check out Mike Walker's blog post for more info.

The Financial Services Component Library will include a set of FREE assets to customers and partners. These will be released over the next month on the Microsoft Financial Services Architecture Portal located: http://msdn.microsoft.com/FinServArch

The following is included on the MSDN site:

- Architecture Guidance – a set of whitepapers that are real world scenarios driven by the financial industry.

- Application Building Blocks -  An installable code base, message schemas and install guides will jump start your development effort

- Hands on Lab –Virtual PC image that allows customers to jump right in!

- Rich Media – WebCasts and PodCasts