Connect to WhatsApp, WeChat, SMS, LINE & Voice from Symphony to enhance client engagement and help meet regulatory recordkeeping requirements
Client engagement without sacrificing compliance
Capture client engagement across corporate and personal mobile devices
High-touch communication on the world’s number one messaging app
Compliance-enabling inroads to China via it’s preferred platform
Speed, reliability and recordkeeping on a high impact channel
Secure business outreach in Japan and Southeast Asia
The only fully open, scalable, and secure collaboration platform purpose-built for global markets – enabling efficient workflows and compliant communication
Suite of modular collaboration capabilities accelerates communication
Leverage Symphony’s capabilities in your platforms and portals
Secure, compliance-enabling framework meets the stringent needs of markets
Find and connect to counterparties to increase transparency, reduce friction and accelerate communication
Compliance-enabling and scalable voice technology maximizes efficiency by defragmenting communication and connecting traders and trader-adjacent teams instantly
Eliminate communication silos and provide instant voice connectivity
Cross-organizational solution native to Symphony and built for speed
Trader-adjacent connectivity with global intercom across internal teams
Full-featured turret replacement with maximum external connectivity
Facilitate productivity, collaboration and effective co-working with leading video conferencing platforms integrated alongside Symphony chats and rooms
Keep collaborating in Symphony while joining or hosting Zoom meetings
Retain Symphony workflow context during Teams Video meetings
Transform information overload into actionable intelligence from regulatory filings, earnings call transcripts, news coverage, social media activity, research reports, and more
Unlock market-moving insights with ESG, Key Drivers, Tagging, and On Demand Data
Transparent ESG products for investors, insurers & corporate sustainability teams
Analyze risk and performance in financial documents using key fundamental factors
Create and curate discoverable content with highly accurate thematic and topical tagging
Connect your everyday systems to Symphony to improve efficiency, reduce context switching and mitigate manual tasks
Enterprise software bi-directionally integrated with Symphony
100+ apps and 1.5K+ bots to help streamline and automate workflows
The world has evolved; with the growth of mobile development and related technology, regulated industries like financial services are looking for service providers that offer compliant communication channels through customers’ preferred messaging platforms such as WeChat, WhatsApp, SMS, LINE, etc.
However, the complex security and compliance requirements that govern the global financial industry present not only execution obstacles, but also significant risks to conducting business via the apps designed for personal use rather than business activities such as global markets trading execution, private wealth relationship management, investment banking deal rooms, and research distribution.
For instance, with more than one billion monthly active users, Chinese tech giant Tencent’s WeChat (also known as “Weixin” in Chinese) is used as the primary avenue of personal communication in mainland China. In addition to messaging, WeChat allows users to pay for goods, order services, make travel reservations, read content, play games, and more – all within the app’s comprehensive ecosystem. The financial services industry recognized that WeChat was a critical communication channel for their Chinese customers and counterparties. But in order to use it in a business capacity, the market needed a compliant and governed means of connectivity to the platform.
Enter Symphony’s new integration: Symphony and TenCent recently announced a partnership to enable communication between Symphony users and the WeChat/Weixin community. The integration we built for Weixin/WeChat retains Symphony’s unique, patented encryption technology and out-of-the-box archiving and compliance features. It connects the two platforms via a WeChat mini program, a common domain for WeChat users to access data and services. WeChat users are onboarded via a QR code and experience the same familiar interface to which they are accustomed. Symphony users can speak to and provide automated chatbot services to WeChat users like they would with any other external contacts on Symphony today.
The launch of the WeChat-Symphony integration demonstrates Symphony’s strength in enabling collaboration across B2B and B2C businesses without compromising on governance or compliance standards. We are grateful for the trust and support from our Joint Development Program partners, namely Deutsche Bank, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and BNP Paribas, who validated our strategy and solutions throughout the R&D process.
This integration is just the beginning of our journey to build Symphony Federation Services, which provides our customers possibilities to create new relationships, smoother collaboration, and global business growth. Stay tuned for more exciting news in this space!
For further details about the WeChat-Symphony offering, please visit our site.
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As the landscape of communication continues to evolve in our increasingly digital world, the financial services industry is feeling the pinch of regulatory scrutiny. In recent years, financial firms have faced nearly $2 billion in penalties from the SEC and CFTC due to unregulated “off-channel” messaging. This surge in “off-channel” communication, including usage of platforms such as WhatsApp, WeChat, SMS, LINE, and mobile calls, is largely fueled by the rise of hybrid work. Yet, regulators maintain that all business communications must be monitored, auditable, and occur only within official channels. In the words of SEC Chair Gary Gensler, “As technology changes, it’s even more important that registrants appropriately conduct their communications about business matters within only official channels. And they must maintain and preserve those communications.”
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