Instant messaging (IM)
IPC, GreenKey Build Real-Time Voice Transcription Streaming Application
The application allows users to glean real-time price data from transcriptions of calls between traders and counterparties.
CLSA Taps Symphony for Internal Data-Sharing, Client Communications
CLSA represents Symphony's largest rollout in Asia to date for its secure messaging and collaboration platform.
MT Newswires Debuts ‘Ask Alyce' Chat-Based News
The news provider has recruited former MNI Chicago bureau chief Alyce Andres-Frantz to launch the service.
Symphony Taps Former Skype, FaceTime, Microsoft Execs to Head Product, Sales
Officials say the new hires will increase Symphony's capacity to workwiht customers and create innovative technology.
AllianceBernstein Preps Symphony Rollout
The firm will use Symphony's platform to replace existing instant messaging platforms for internal communications, and ultimately external communications with clients.
Opening Cross: If Data and Standards Were Easy…
Whether dealing with utility startups or commercial offerings, should you throw your weight behind making something a "standard," or back alternatives in the spirit of healthy competition?
Thomson Reuters, CME Integrate IM Networks
The integrated instant messaging platforms will support collaboration between 300,000 users, officials say.
GreenKey Taps OpenFin HTML5 Container
OpenFin's HTML5 container allows GreenKey's platform to support compliant voice and text communications from within a browser.
OTAS Builds App to Embed Analytics in Symphony Chat, Eyes More Partners for 2016
The app will allow Symphony users to access OTAS' content and analytics within their existing chat workflow.
Ipreo Integrates Symphony Comms Platform
The integration will allow clients to conduct messaging from their existing Ipreo tools while working on deals.
2015 Year in Review: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action Please
This year, messaging platform Symphony became a reality, and users──and regulators──began taking it seriously.
Thomson Reuters Bows Mobile Eikon Messenger App to Decouple from Desktops, Expand User Base Beyond Financials
Thomson Reuters is making its Eikon Messenger service available across Apple, Android and Blackberry mobile devices to enable its community of 250,000 financial professionals to use its instant chat service as a standalone application on the go, as part…
Buy Side Still Taking Wait-and-See Approach to Symphony
Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup messaging provider Symphony Communication Services has attracted investment from a "Who's Who" of 19 financial institutions plus more than $100 million raised in a recent round of funding from investors including tech…
UPDATE: Symphony Unveils Content Partners, Icap Plans Rollout to "Thousands" of Brokers
Icap is currently beta testing the platform, and plans to roll it out to the broker's front office "immediately."
Recommind Launches Axcelerate 5.5 With Instant Messaging Analysis
The new platform will enable financial firms to analyze chat data
UPDATE: NY Authorities Scrutinize Legality of Symphony's Data Deletion Claims
The New York regulator is concerned that the vendor will make it hard to obtain communications records.
Thomson Reuters Adds Bilateral Chat to Eikon Messenger
The functionality will enable firms to ensure compliance and minimize opportunities for collusion on market manipulation.
Markit to Exit Messaging Play as Symphony Conducts Acquisition of Chat Assets
Acquisition will unite rival messaging initiatives to create a stronger competitor to Bloomberg's messaging service
Markit Launches Chat Rooms on Collaboration Services
Markit has launched a new software component of its Collaboration Services open messaging initiative that will enable investment banks and other financial institutions to create instant message chat rooms—and to proactively monitor who can access them,…
Symphony CEO David Gurle Discusses Goldman Sachs/Consortium Deal, New Platform
Yesterday it was announced that a consortium of 14 financial institutions led by Goldman Sachs had acquired Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo for $66 million. The resulting acquisition led to the new company Symphony Communication Services, whose…
Gurle: Goldman Consortium's $66M Symphony Will Make Harmony with Markit Messaging
Symphony, the secure messaging platform being created by the $66 million acquisition of Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo by 14 major financial firms, will complement──rather than compete with──data vendor Markit's Collaboration Services suite of…