Mazy Dar's guest appearances

Mazy Dar

Waters Wavelength

Bank On It

Benzinga Fintech Focus

Boxes and Lines

Strategic Mindset with AT

Bryan Harkins

Richard Johnson

Brian Moran

Eric Balchunas

Tim Mahoney

Anthony Scaramucci

Jared Dillian

Doug Cifu

Craig Fuller

Jay Klauminzer

Brian Dally

Evan Daniels

Danny Moses

Paul Chou

Mike Green

OwlTail

Tim Baker

Mazy Dar, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenFin, joins Ronan, JR, and Tim Baker of IEX Cloud to discuss modernizing the desktop experience in finance, the new IEX Cloud Gateway app, and what it means to democratize app distribution. 

Mazy Dar, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenFin, joins Ronan, JR, and Tim Baker of IEX Cloud to discuss modernizing the desktop experience in finance, the new IEX Cloud Gateway app, and what it means to democratize app distribution.

Democratizing Fintech, with Mazy Dar of OpenFin and Tim Baker of IEX Cloud

Welcome to the first episode of Strategic Mindset with AT. In this episode, Anthony Tassone interviews Mazy Dar, CEO, and Co-Founder of OpenFin. Mazy was recently selected and named as one of “The Top 50 Financial Technology CEOs of 2020” by The Financial Technology Report. Listen in as AT and Mazy discuss thinking strategically, finding time to disconnect, building a network of advisors, and strategies to avoid bad hires. 

Welcome to the first episode of Strategic Mindset with AT. In this episode, Anthony Tassone interviews Mazy Dar, CEO, and Co-Founder of OpenFin. Mazy was recently selected and named as one of “The Top 50 Financial Technology CEOs of 2020” by The Financial Technology Report. Listen in as AT and Mazy discuss thinking strategically, finding time to disconnect, building a network of advisors, and strategies to avoid bad hires.

Episode 1: Mazy Dar

This week, Mazy Dar, CEO and co-founder at OpenFin joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. First, they talk about how the developing coronavirus (Covid-19) situation impacts the workforce, and how OpenFin is communicating with clients. Then, they discuss financial institutions’ adoption of the Financial Desktop Connectivity (FDC3) standards, and what’s holding them back.  1:00 – Wei-Shen and Tony talk about industry-scale project delays, such as ASX’s CHESS replacement (https://www.waterstechnology.com/technology/7511931/asx-reconsiders-chess-replacement-timeline-as-coronavirus-bites), and also the delay of deadlines for the CAT (https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7506926/industry-given-cat-relief-due-to-coronavirus), due to the coronavirus (Covid-19). 7:00 – Mazy joins the podcast and talks about the working from home and schooling from home situation, and how OpenFin continues to communicate with clients throughout the disruption caused by Covid-19. 13:00 – Then, he discusses how cloud is becoming more topical as financial institutions start to realize how an on-premise approach can be problematic. 19:00 – Has OpenFin experienced any push backs in projects? Are clients focusing on other things?  25:00 – As interoperability (https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tools/4753016/for-the-app-interoperability-movement-2020-will-be-a-big-year)continues to seep into capital markets, how will OMS and EMS platforms of the future look like?  26:30 – Mazy elaborates on the state of adoption of the Financial Desktop Connectivity (FDC3) standards, and why some firms are holding back.37:30 – Where are the opportunities for interoperability in the middle and back-office? 41:00 – What are some new innovations OpenFin is working on, following its last funding round? 46:00 – Mazy wraps up with the two things he’d like to see happen for interoperability this year.

This week, Mazy Dar, CEO and co-founder at OpenFin joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. First, they talk about how the developing coronavirus (Covid-19) situation impacts the workforce, and how OpenFin is communicating with clients. Then, they discuss financial institutions’ adoption of the Financial Desktop Connectivity (FDC3) standards, and what’s holding them back. 1:00 – Wei-Shen and Tony talk about industry-scale project delays, such as ASX’s CHESS replacement (<a href="https://www.waterstechnology.com/technology/7511931/asx-reconsiders-chess-replacement-timeline-as-coronavirus-bites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.waterstechnology.com/technology/7511931/asx-reconsiders-chess-replacement-timeline-as-coronavirus-bites</a>), and also the delay of deadlines for the CAT (<a href="https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7506926/industry-given-cat-relief-due-to-coronavirus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7506926/industry-given-cat-relief-due-to-coronavirus</a>), due to the coronavirus (Covid-19). 7:00 – Mazy joins the podcast and talks about the working from home and schooling from home situation, and how OpenFin continues to communicate with clients throughout the disruption caused by Covid-19. 13:00 – Then, he discusses how cloud is becoming more topical as financial institutions start to realize how an on-premise approach can be problematic. 19:00 – Has OpenFin experienced any push backs in projects? Are clients focusing on other things? 25:00 – As interoperability (<a href="https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tools/4753016/for-the-app-interoperability-movement-2020-will-be-a-big-year)continues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tools/4753016/for-the-app-interoperability-movement-2020-will-be-a-big-year)continues</a> to seep into capital markets, how will OMS and EMS platforms of the future look like? 26:30 – Mazy elaborates on the state of adoption of the Financial Desktop Connectivity (FDC3) standards, and why some firms are holding back. 37:30 – Where are the opportunities for interoperability in the middle and back-office? 41:00 – What are some new innovations OpenFin is working on, following its last funding round? 46:00 – Mazy wraps up with the two things he’d like to see happen for interoperability this year.

Episode 188: OpenFin's Mazy Dar Talks Interoperability

How Long Till Your Bank Goes Open Source?  This 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.   How Financial Services Needs To Take A Lesson From Mobile Developers  “Look at what's happened in the mobile world, and in Silicon Valley most of the really useful innovations of the last you know, five, ten years have come about on our mobile devices, and they've been enabled, principally by two operating systems. One is iOS, and the other one is Android. And so if you are Facebook, or Uber, or Snapchat, or any number of other apps that have been created in the last five, ten years, you have those two operating systems that are modern to build your app on top of.   “Unfortunately, the situation we're in, in financial services is we're primarily using Windows 7, which was released in 2009, and some of us are still on Windows XP, which was released in 2001. So, these are operating systems that don't provide you the basic capabilities that apps need nowadays, and that's essentially what OpenFin is solving, we're a layer that sits on top of Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, Mac, and Linux, and we modernize the desktop and provide the foundation that's needed by applications in the financial industry to really innovate and provide the end user experience that's required for financial applications.”   How Open Source Can Actually Ensure Greater Cybersecurity  “OpenFin comes in and dramatically changes the security paradigm where now you can build an app that looks and feels and behaves just like a native installed application, but in face it is not an installed application. It's a web application. It runs in the security sandbox. It has no access to the local operating system. Has no access to other apps on the desktop and where it needs access, let's say there's a good reason for it to want to read the file system or read the clipboard or something else, IT security can essentially authorize those features and it's only available if apps actually need it and it's understood why they need those features. It's under a completely different paradigm than the one we have today, but one that is critically needed in an environment where the security threats are increasing exponentially, and we just need a much, much better way of ensuring security than the security review process that we have in place.”   Links: OpenFin: https://openfin.co Benzinga Pro: https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-focus/newsletter/

How Long Till Your Bank Goes Open Source? This 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. How Financial Services Needs To Take A Lesson From Mobile Developers “Look at what's happened in the mobile world, and in Silicon Valley most of the really useful innovations of the last you know, five, ten years have come about on our mobile devices, and they've been enabled, principally by two operating systems. One is iOS, and the other one is Android. And so if you are Facebook, or Uber, or Snapchat, or any number of other apps that have been created in the last five, ten years, you have those two operating systems that are modern to build your app on top of. “Unfortunately, the situation we're in, in financial services is we're primarily using Windows 7, which was released in 2009, and some of us are still on Windows XP, which was released in 2001. So, these are operating systems that don't provide you the basic capabilities that apps need nowadays, and that's essentially what OpenFin is solving, we're a layer that sits on top of Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, Mac, and Linux, and we modernize the desktop and provide the foundation that's needed by applications in the financial industry to really innovate and provide the end user experience that's required for financial applications.” How Open Source Can Actually Ensure Greater Cybersecurity “OpenFin comes in and dramatically changes the security paradigm where now you can build an app that looks and feels and behaves just like a native installed application, but in face it is not an installed application. It's a web application. It runs in the security sandbox. It has no access to the local operating system. Has no access to other apps on the desktop and where it needs access, let's say there's a good reason for it to want to read the file system or read the clipboard or something else, IT security can essentially authorize those features and it's only available if apps actually need it and it's understood why they need those features. It's under a completely different paradigm than the one we have today, but one that is critically needed in an environment where the security threats are increasing exponentially, and we just need a much, much better way of ensuring security than the security review process that we have in place.” Links: OpenFin: <a href="https://openfin.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://openfin.co</a> Benzinga Pro: <a href="https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-focus/newsletter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-focus/newsletter/</a>