An Operating System for Capital Markets – Mazy Dar, OpenFin
Spencer Doar
Associate Editor
When Mazy Dar worked for a firm in the credit default swap trading space, he became familiar with the challenges posed by application deployment in financial services. It was his experience then that made him realize capital markets could take a page from mobile phone app stores. In this video, Dar talks about the core issues he addresses and thinks about as CEO of OpenFin, a company that built an operating system for finance that is used by more than 1,500 buy- and sell-side firms to rapidly deploy applications.
Produced by Mike Forrester
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