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FlexTrade Partners OpenFin for Desktop Interoperability

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FlexTrade is the latest application vendor to partner OpenFin. The partnership will provide buy-side traders with interoperability and improved workflows between the FlexTrader execution management system, FlexNow cloud-based trading system and other OpenFin third-party applications. The company has also joined the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium, FDC3, that was founded by OpenFin in 2017 and is now operated within the independent governance framework of FINOS, which published Version 1.0 of the FDC3 standard designed to bring universal connectivity to the financial industry’s desktop applications in March 2019.

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