The non-compliant use of messaging platforms has led to billions in regulatory fines. Symphony helps enable seamless compliant messaging with clients via WhatsApp, WeChat and SMS
Enable surveillance and recordkeeping of clients’ preferred messaging platforms
Enable maintenance of SMS communication records for regulatory compliance
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
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
Connect your everyday systems to Symphony to improve efficiency, reduce context switching and mitigate manual tasks
Enterprise software bi-directionally integrated with Symphony
415+ apps and 2K+ bots to help streamline and automate workflows
Trust and resiliency are being tested throughout all systems today.
Many of our long-standing institutions such as democracy, capitalism and the global financial system are under stress and scrutiny, during this cycle of history. In January 2022, I outlined the historical convergence of forces driving all this in an essay “Risk, Transformation & Trust.” It explained why we now have more volatility shocks at a higher frequency and increasing velocity – and with a greater variability of outcomes. These are what I call the “3-V’s” of volatility, velocity and variability. Together, they create a “Vol-Monster” that is challenging the world and changing the business community.
As a result, strategic decision making is more important now than ever before. This creates hidden risks to companies, where the penalty is loss of opportunity…or worse.
We are living in a transformational time with a scale of change on par with the Industrial Revolution, but in a significantly more compressed timeframe. This is bigger than just the corporate re-shaping resulting from the global pandemic. In fact, the foundational shifts actually began long before 2020, which is why the change gripping the business world extends far beyond recent marketplace volatility. This is all an outgrowth from technology’s impact on humanity through an accelerating Information Revolution.
Across the globe, we’ve witnessed the asymmetry of people with respect to their locations. In response, new business workflows have been developed. As a result, the traditional company structure itself has been overturned.
Such rapid foundational shifts make it difficult for both people and organizations to keep up, affecting every company in the world. It is a global, simultaneous disruption. We all have the dubious privilege of living through a significant moment in history.
The lion’s share of revenue still accrues to those who can understand and respond the fastest. In every circumstance, the quickest insight captures the most opportunity. This is even more true now.
However, in the face of all this change, some things have not changed.
The lion’s share of revenue still accrues to those who can understand and respond the fastest. In every circumstance, the quickest insight captures the most opportunity. This is even more true now.
All of this has implications.
Every business leader is now competing in what I call, “The Great Race to Decipher,” an informational footrace to consume, process, and action information as quickly as possible. This race is going on at every second of every day…whether you know it or not.
But, this is not a game. The opportunity cost for coming in second place can be fatal. Unfortunately, this threat is not being fully recognized.
The crucial driver of change is now the speed of information.
Information travels faster today than ever before in human history and the effect on business has been extraordinary. Due to the feedback-loop of information, the pace at which things unravel has become incredibly fast. We’ve all seen how quickly a single tweet can change everything, worldwide.
And for good or ill, Financial Services sits at the dead center of this global transformation. While our industry’s chief product would seem to be technology software – it’s not – it’s actually information.
Every company in our industry is trafficking in information, first and foremost. And, as an industry we have mastered the process of collecting, transmitting and accessing data.
However, information is not your goal. What you really want…is insight. In fact, near-immediate insight is demanded by that feedback-loop of information in the modern world.
Looking back in history, in the Industrial Age people were paid to run machines. It was enough to be good at your job and labor was the commodity.
As the Industrial Age evolved into the Information Age, the rewards began accruing to those who connected people through the machines. In effect, information became the commodity.
The rise of the Internet Age brought a battle for screen time where attention became the commodity. Now, we are moving from the “Attention Economy” into the “Insight Economy.” This era of history will be about how quickly we can gain insight into situations.
Financial reward now accrues to those who can leverage machines for the most timely response. In this environment, intelligent resourcefulness is the commodity.
Today, your business success is predicated upon sharp insight coupled with fast action. That combination earns the rewards today. Indeed, the more action-oriented you are…the more valuable you become.
Now we need a bridge from screen-time to critical insight.
It’s been said that in a technology-driven world, data is the new oil. Yet unrefined, neither data nor oil is very useful. Having information isn’t enough, it’s about turning that information into action.
The refining process to convert data to action is multi-step:
In this new era, power comes from how quickly you can refine, distribute and consume the oil gush and crush of data. Companies (and people) who do this the fastest, will capture the fleeting opportunities.
A technology-driven world informed by data is highly reliant on having the right tools for processing and transmission. In fact, tools become the critical contributing factor to successfully translating data to action.
In this new era, power comes from how quickly you can refine, distribute and consume the oil gush of data. Companies (and people) who do this the fastest, will capture the fleeting opportunities.
The relationship between turning data into action through a specific, powerful set of tools is a new dynamic, which Symphony uniquely understands.
Our technology refines the channels of communication, and our tools deliver the ability to leverage your own data better. We create avenues for refinement, distribution, and consumption of data and its insights. This translates into:
In all of these scenarios, optimal production is the result of linked component parts, smoothing and maximizing the supply chain. Centralized control is no longer the model; with both energy and work, the future is distributed.
At Symphony, we enable a distributed future through what we call “multimodal communication capability.” This simply means we enable you to communicate through a variety of channels simultaneously. As the speed of information increases, the need for multimodal capability becomes much more pressing – as does the demand for insight from all modalities.
For example, our voice technology enables deeper insight from the metadata of a normal phone call. Using comprehensive structuring and tagging, we can build custom tools that empower a much more thorough analysis, helping clients refine proprietary workflows and build marketplace advantages.
Our solutions foster today’s distributed model of work – across offices, desktops, and on mobile devices. In turn, this empowers employers and employees alike with structures that can meet the needs of both.
We understand that regardless of workflow, department or client location, your customers expect peak performance. This is about granular, personal, curated communication that is only possible through metadata analysis.
Finding the signal through the noise is difficult, yes. But that is the highest and best use of data as a tool. In fact, it is the foundational purpose of all business intelligence. If there were only one, singular advantage that a company could provide its clients in the market, this would be it.
From natural language processing (NLP) to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence today, we are witnessing the evolution turning revolution of how data can be leveraged, in real-time. Using NLP and machine learning has never been more valuable. This is because these technologies have never been more effective than right at this moment.
That’s why Symphony recently acquired Amenity Analytics.
We now have unmatched ability to develop cloud-based text analytics solutions. Because we understand that in a world where the speed and volume of data is accelerating, your industry tools must compensate for these demands. So we are continuing to enable the same effectiveness of the humans involved, despite the growing crush of data.
Today’s markets are about uncovering actionable insights on a massive and repeatable scale. By applying NLP that leverages machine-learning with a rules-based approach, we can build models that are trained in the language of business.
This delivers things like systematic analysis of every earnings call transcript to immediately spot outlier situations. We can enable clients to understand the nuances of news sentiment, contextual analysis and temporal relevance of events.
Having a custom NLP lets you quickly surface the critical insights and understanding you need to take effective action, without delay.
The duality of technology is that it brings both good and bad. At various times throughout history, it’s been celebrated and vilified. It is a double-edged sword.
But in a larger sense, technology is merely a perpetual game with no end. Companies must simply leverage it to their advantage…or they disappear. These are the real stakes.
At Symphony, our job is to provide you with the capabilities to be more effective in your role. Through us, you can glean better insights from more of your data. We believe technology should empower the individual and company, helping you create a competitive advantage.
Symphony is just one player on the global stage, but we believe we help all the others to work more closely together.
The truth is that technology is only valuable to the extent that it improves what you can do. It should help you capture opportunity. It should protect you from hidden risks. In the end, technology is never really about widgets and features – it’s about you and your ability to capitalize on the changes occurring.
Of course, things are coming at you fast and furious these days. But the simple truth is, the rate of change is only going to speed up. That means today is actually the slowest day you will ever have.
Ever since the financial crisis of 2018 led to the restructuring of the global financial architecture, market participants have been required to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. This trend is only intensifying.
Over the past few years, I have seen a major change in the way I work – namely, I use my cell phone much more than I did before. I no longer have a desk phone but use my mobile for calls, texts and messages routinely. And I know I’m not alone. As the boundaries between our professional and personal lives further blur together, a trend amplified by COVID and hybrid office policies, phones – or really, the apps on our phones – have become as important as our desktop computers.
At Symphony, our job is to provide you with the capabilities to be more effective in your role. Through us, you can glean better insights from more of your data. We believe technology should empower the individual and company, helping you create a competitive advantage.
