OpenFin Open-Sources Market Leading HTML5 Container Technology

Leading banks and trading platforms to form OpenFin industry advisory board

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Dec 08, 2015, 08:00 ET

NEW YORK and LONDON, Dec. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenFin, a fast-growing financial technology provider, today announced that for the first time it is open-sourcing its market-leading HTML5 container technology for financial desktops. The development aims to promote further community collaboration as OpenFin is being used by over 20 of the world's leading banks, buy-side firms and trading platforms. OpenFin also announced the formation of an industry advisory board, with member firms including Barclays, Citi, CME Group, ICAP, J.P. Morgan, REDI, RBS, Trading Technologies and Tullett Prebon, to guide the direction of both its open-source and enterprise offerings.

HTML5 is rapidly being adopted by the financial industry because it is both light-weight and is the only cross-platform language supported by all major technology vendors including Google, Microsoft and Apple. However, modern web browsers which are typically used to run HTML5, do not provide the capabilities needed by real-time trading applications. Based on Google Chromium, OpenFin's container provides a controlled, high-performance HTML5 engine purpose-built for desktops at banks and buy-side firms.

The OpenFin container will be open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. An enterprise edition which includes production support, enterprise security and other enterprise features, will remain under a commercial license.

"OpenFin's industry leading technology has been developed with extensive input from major industry players over the past 4 years," said Chuck Doerr, OpenFin's President and COO. "Open-sourcing enables others to enhance and extend the project and it provides our customers with additional assurance as they use OpenFin for deployment of their mission critical platforms."

OpenFin's CEO Mazy Dar added, "Our advisory board will play a critical role in guiding our architecture and product roadmap. We're thrilled to have participation from both senior business and technology representatives and look forward to a close collaboration as we enter a new phase of growth."

Earlier this year as part of a separate project, OpenFin open-sourced a high-performance HTML5 grid known as "Hypergrid". The component enables visualization of huge and fast-changing data sets and is now being used in several industry trading applications.

About OpenFin
OpenFin is the financial industry's leading HTML5 container. Built on Google Chromium and tailored for financial firms, OpenFin is a powerful HTML5 engine that enables seamless deployment, native experience and desktop integration. The world's largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy applications both in-house and to over 100 buy-side and sell-side customers.

Founded in 2010, OpenFin is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Nyca Partners, Pivot Investment Partners and more than 30 leaders in the global financial services industry. OpenFin is a graduate of the First Growth Venture Network, a New York based accelerator, and the FinTech Innovation Lab, an annual program run by the Partnership Fund for New York City and Accenture for early and growth stage companies that have developed cutting edge technology products targeted at financial services customers. For more information, please visit www.openfin.co

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