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Fintech Focus For April 28, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 6:45pm | 2055Quote To Start The Day: "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."...
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Fintech Focus For December 15, 2020
Monday, December 14, 2020 - 7:36pm | 1454Quote To Start The Day: “The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know that nothing — not even a pandemic or an abuse of power — can extinguish that flame,” Biden said in prepared remarks his transition team announced he would deliver at 7:...
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Fintech Focus For July 3, 2020
Friday, July 3, 2020 - 9:26am | 1689Daily Perspective: Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon Fintech Movers: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) official recently noted that China’s Fintech sector could be “instrumental” in assisting SMEs with acquiring reliable credit. The...
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OpenFin Raises $17M To Help Enable The 'Next Generation Of Desktop Apps'
Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 9:00am | 375OpenFin, a maker of operating system products for the field of finance, said Thursday it raised $17 million in Series C funding led by Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) with participation from Barclays (NYSE: BCS) and existing investors, including Bain Capital Ventures. What Happened OpenFin's...
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How Long Until Your Bank Goes Open Source?
Thursday, December 27, 2018 - 1:42pm | 476This week’s Fintech Focus podcast is booting up Linux and going open-source. We’re chatting with longtime friend of Benzinga and CEO of OpenFin Mazy Dar about the company’s growth and how the startup is changing the way banks deploy new technology. Listen to the full episode here...
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Video: Can Financial Services Ever Work As One Tech Ecosystem?
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 12:44pm | 259“Financial services” and “open source technology” might seem diametrically opposed. After all, how are institutions supposed to work together when there are decades of legacy technology systems to wade through and books of regulations to follow? However, several...
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Former Goldman Sachs CTO Joins The Board Of The Fintech Company That's Open-Sourcing Banks
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 9:00am | 367Paul Walker, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) CTO famous for the rise of tech-driven traders within the firm, has joined the board of OpenFin. OpenFin is a fintech startup that’s developing a runtime environment that allows banks to quickly deploy new apps that work with each...
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This Fintech Platform Just Got $15 Million From Some Of Wall Street's Biggest VCs
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 10:20am | 383OpenFin, a fintech company that describes itself as the financial industry's first common operating layer, enabling rapid and secure deployment, native experience and desktop interoperability. The New York-based company counts some of the world's largest banks and trading platforms as its...