JP Morgan led the round in OpenFin and although the startup claims to have no direct competitors, Electron claims to also provide a similar framework for creating native financial applications.
The New York-based startup wants to modernize the way capital markets are run by allowing traders and other end users to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. The startup describes its technology as the “Android for capital markets” — a common layer that allows applications to be deployed and updated instantly and securely.
http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/16/openfin-raises-15-million-to-disrupt-wall-street-trading/