Over the course of the five years since Symphony launched, we’ve witnessed sweeping changes to our economy as the global political climate undergoes a major shift. As we pause at Innovate 2019 to reflect, we also look ahead to what the next five years hold for the Symphony community.
Today, financial firms face pressure from all sides: pressure to keep up with relentless digital innovation; pressure to increase efficiency alongside ever-thinner margins across the board; and pressure to comply with increasingly complex regulatory requirements around the globe.
In order to thrive and prosper, the industry must find innovative ways to convert pressure into progress. This is the primary challenge we at Symphony will solve for in the second half of our first decade, and an underlying theme of our upcoming discussions at Innovate.
Trust remains the canopy under which we must invent, test, and deploy solutions that address our field’s most prominent challenges–and technology is our most powerful tool for realizing the innovations that will propel our industry forward. We will see an impressive range of such community-developed innovations throughout the day on October 3rd at Innovate.
As we look to the future, sophisticated platforms that uphold standards for data security, ownership, sovereignty and compliance will be critical in addressing a variety of industry-wide issues, including:
The current digital environment provides organizations with a range of messaging solutions, each characterized by varying levels of security and compliance capabilities. This has become particularly prominent as people add messaging apps to their personal and professional workflows as a complement to e-mail.
Symphony’s Cloud9 has been awarded ‘Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System’ at WatersTechnology’s Sell-Side Technology Awards 2025.
In this interview we hear how Cloud9 differentiates itself with a modern, cloud-native approach to trader voice. It requires no on-premise infrastructure and functions primarily as a software application, aligning with broader cloud-based communication trends.
Cloud9’s flexible architecture empowers technology teams with robust deployment, while seamlessly supporting remote and mobile work. Michael Lynch also explains the plans for the mobile app and how it will extend voice beyond the desk to users on the go, offering 24/7 trading control.
Watch the interview to learn more.
Symphony’s leadership team have shared their expertise regarding the impact to the industry and offer valuable insights into how firms can collectively respond to information security threats. Here are 7 key insights from these conversations:
