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Tech4Fin

A Decade of Symphony
 

The 2020s are an unprecedented decade of disruption and every market participant is either the disruptor…or the disrupted. Today, we stand at the precipice of artificial general intelligence and every well-run organization should be actively seeking to disrupt themselves right now. Symphony has been able to remain almost a decade ahead of disruption by understanding one simple truth—thriving through disruption. This demands three things from your technology: resiliency, stability and flexibility.

Brad Levy October 21, 2024
Tech4Fin

Episode 5: Establishing a Voice Trading Engine for a Distributed Ecosystem

As the financial industry continues to transition towards a predominantly virtual environment, institutional traders need to be able to easily access the right tools to stay connected and enhance workflow efficiencies. In the fifth episode of Cloud9’s podcast series examining developments in the voice trading landscape, Cloud9’s Chief Innovation Officer and Co-founder Leo Papadopoulos, and Chief Operating Officer Jim Miller, examine what voice trading capabilities institutional traders must have in a distributed workplace and how a cloud-based platform can provide a more secure, mobile and accessible ecosystem.

Symphony May 1, 2021
Community

Voice Trading: The Last Frontier of Unstructured Data

One year out from the start of the sweeping COVID-19 pandemic that changed working conditions globally, many firms continue to struggle with how to address the challenges they have faced during the transition, particularly voice trading in what has become a virtual market ecosystem. While every company needs to employ remote working capabilities, there is no question that it is difficult to manage and can create challenges when trying to access and store voice data.

Leo Papadopolous April 20, 2021
Webinar

Build a Bot Session: Leveraging NLP to build a Symphony Bot

Designing bots that handle unstructured data by leveraging Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, opens new opportunities. Bots can make unstructured data usable and human-to-human conversations actionable. By using NLU/NLP technology, bots have the power to leverage these conversations to increase efficiency without losing the personal element of our day-to-day jobs.

During this session we will:

Cover the benefits of utilizing NLU and NLP technologies
Showcase how you can leverage NLU/NLP to build a Symphony Bot
Provide a step-by-step demo on how NLP can be useful in chatbot implementations

Symphony April 18, 2021
David Gurle
Innovation

“Au revoir!”

Today, we have announced that I will be stepping back from the day-to-day operations of Symphony and will remain on the board of directors to support the company on strategic matters. Symphony’s president and chief commercial officer, Brad Levy, will become our chief executive officer on June 1, 2021.

David Gurle April 14, 2021
Tech4Fin

ESG Spotlight: The Bitter Reality of the Chocolate Supply Chain

Hershey made commitments towards addressing environmental issues in their supply chain. However, child labor in the supply chain continues to be a pervasive issue for the chocolate producer, and in recent months surfaced as a red flag in the news on our ESG platform.

Samuel Leavitt March 25, 2021
Webinar

Build a Bot Series: Securing Your Bot Ecosystem

Watch the latest how to build a bot tutorial on securing your Bot ecosystem. Learn how to scale bots to efficiently leverage internal data resources to create a secure bot-to-resource ecosystem.

During this session, we will:
– Do a deep dive into a real-life authorization workflow
– Show how to realize this workflow by building 3 components using Symphony’s Bot Developer Kit 2.0, Spring Boot and Spring Security
– Discuss alternate workflows with their pros and cons

Symphony March 17, 2021
Tech4Fin

Navigating Distributed Compliance in Today’s Institutional Landscape

The last year has been a whirlwind for everyone. And while regulators such as the CFTC have offered temporary relief and extensions to certain voice trading and record-keeping rules in the increasingly virtual environment, distributed compliance parameters still remain a pivotal element of the institutional landscape. A distributed workforce is not a new concept in any industry, including capital markets. However, a lot of firms continue to struggle with how to address the challenges they’ve faced in the process, particularly in a shifting market ecosystem. While every company needs to employ remote working capabilities, there’s no question that it is difficult to manage and can create potential compliance challenges.

Leo Papadopolous March 8, 2021