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Tech4Fin

Markets To Mars: How Quantum Will Change the Fabric of Finance Forever

At Symphony, we are actively preparing for the quantum era – not as a theoretical exercise but as a necessity. Quantum computing will destabilize and may invalidate many foundations of business, including current encryption methods. It will also accelerate AI to unimaginable speeds. As a result, all professional fields are going to be forced to evolve, at scale.

Brad Levy, Dietmar Fauser April 7, 2025
Webinar

Weekly Training Webinars

Getting Started with Symphony 2.0. In order to stay connected and productive whilst working remotely, Symphony’s chat and collaboration tools can help provide a more dynamic, real-time work experience to keep conversations and work flowing.
Join a webinar for an overview of the NEW 2.0 platform and how you can collaborate effectively using the platform through the use of workspaces, search, tags, applications, and more.

Symphony July 19, 2021
Tech4Fin

ESG Spotlight: Mastercard & Financial Inclusion All Hype or Just Right?

Our NLP tools filter out the noise to uncover meaningful insights. New ideas are buried in your documents, reports, and earnings transcripts. Extract them today. In this ESG analysis we picked-up on financial inclusion at Mastercard. The company received favorable headlines detailing their initiatives around small- and medium-enterprise lending in the Middle East and Africa, expanding access to capital in those regions. While Mastercard is clearly making waves on the news front, we also examined all this from a greenwashing perspective. Is this all window dressing or an effective plan of action? See our results below.

Samuel Leavitt July 9, 2021
Innovation

WFH or RTO? Finding a Happy Medium

The value of diversity of thought in business is well-established: Companies where 30 percent of executives or more are women are nearly 50 percent more likely to outperform financially, and 67 percent of candidates consider workforce diversity when evaluating job offers. A range of backgrounds and experiences facilitates creativity, problem-solving and positive outcomes.

Krishna Nadella July 8, 2021
Innovation

Essential Collaboration or Capital Markets: Which Symphony 2.0 Mode is Right for You?

When we talk about Symphony 2.0, we emphasize that the product is purpose-built for financial services workflows. But even that is too simplistic – we recognize that within the industry, there is a wide variety of roles, responsibilities, needs and preferences. Investment bankers, research analysts, compliance professionals: all within financial services, but all with very different workflows.

Jason Lui June 28, 2021
Webinar

Using ipushpull + Symphony to move from chat to data-driven workflows

Watch the latest in Symphony’s Partner Webinar Series on demand, highlighting ipushpull, a leading capital markets FinTech that connects people, data and applications in real-time.

During the session we heard from Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull and Krishna Nadella, Global Head of Solutions at Symphony, as they discussed the journey towards standardization and automation in capital markets workflows.

Watch the recording where they discussed:

Bot development from beginning to end, including a live demonstration done in real-time
Real-time data sharing into Symphony
The genesis and future of the partnership between the companies
ipushpull’s Symphony integration and use cases of data-driven workflows

Symphony June 17, 2021
Tech4Fin

The importance of diversity of thought as firms navigate data democratization across people, processes, and platforms

The value of diversity of thought in business is well-established: Companies where 30 percent of executives or more are women are nearly 50 percent more likely to outperform financially, and 67 percent of candidates consider workforce diversity when evaluating job offers. A range of backgrounds and experiences facilitates creativity, problem-solving and positive outcomes.

Kate Chatzopoulos June 16, 2021
Community

How partnerships can enable digital transformation

In a recent webinar, David Gurlé, formerly of Symphony, and Steven Quick, Principal Solution Architect – Financial Services with Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), discussed how many financial institutions are working to transform faster while also meeting ever more stringent compliance requirements on data safety, security and transparency.

David Gurle June 14, 2021
Webinar

Build-a-Bot Session: Introducing BDK 2.0 for Python

Following the successful launch of the Bot Developer Kit (BDK) 2.0 for Java, Symphony is excited to bring the same enhanced developer experience to Python developers.

The Python variant has been redesigned from scratch to greatly simplify the bootstrapping process. It will also support common structures like RealTimeEventListeners, the Activities API and the @slash decorator that allows you to define a slash command with a single line of code.

Watch the recording where our Developer Relations team will:

Showcase the BDK 2.0 for Python
Demonstrate how you can get started building Python bots in seconds
Answer all your questions

Symphony June 8, 2021