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News/Instant Messaging
Singapore-based DBS has launched a chat service that lets its wealth clients interact and transact with their relationship managers via WhatsApp and WeChat.
11 September 2018
Financial communication platform Symphony has secured $67 million in new funding from a group of global investors as it bids to break into new market segments including insurance, legal, healthcare services and government.
11 April 2018
Bloomberg is reportedly unbundling chat services from its desktop terminal subscriptions, instead charging clients a flat $10 a month per user in an effort to combat the threat posed by messaging rival Symphony.
05 October 2017
Bank messaging platform Symphony Communication Services is looking to expand into Asia after raising $63 million in a funding round led by BNP Paribas.
16 May 2017
Amid reports that it is in talks about a $100 million funding round, bank-backed messaging platform Symphony has unveiled a new virtual meetings tool and an API that lets developers create integrations with third-party apps.
06 October 2016
Bots are not ready for prime time when it comes to banking, and most banks should hold off on launching customer service or chat bots on messaging platforms for another two to three years, according to a new Forrester report.
02 September 2016
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has spun off internally developed technology used to enable employees to securely communicate via mobile devices and teamed up with a software company.
28 October 2015
Google Alphabet is to participate in a new round of funding for bank-backed messaging platform Symphony, valuing the startup at $650 million.
06 October 2015
Yorkshire Building Society is offering its customers financial advice in their own homes via live video conferencing.
23 September 2015
New York state's banking regulator has reached an agreement with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Bank of New York Mellon on the record-keeping requirements of a new chat and messaging platform.
14 September 2015
New York state's banking regulator has written to the firm behind a new instant messaging service backed by Wall Street's biggest banks asking about its document retention policies.
23 July 2015
A consortium of Wall Street banks has launched an instant messaging platform it hopes will loosen Bloomberg's vice-like grip on the market for real-time communication between traders.
21 July 2015
Reference data firm Markit has backed out of the running to develop a rival to Bloomberg's instant messaging network, instead selling the technology assets of its Collaboration unit to back-backed Symphony Communication Services.
02 December 2014
European Union antitrust regulators have asked banks to hand over the Facebook messages of foreign exchange traders, according to Bloomberg.
27 October 2014
A group of Wall Street firms, led by Goldman Sachs, has acquired instant messaging outfit Perzo and set up a new company to help them break free of their reliance on Bloomberg.
01 October 2014
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed a $350 million cash deal to acquire SuperDerivatives, a provider of risk management analytics, financial market data and valuation services.
05 September 2014
A group of Wall Street banks, led by Goldman Sachs, are on the verge of buying a stake in instant messaging firm Perzo as they prepare to break free of their reliance on Bloomberg, according to Reuters.
04 August 2014
US regulator Finra has slapped Barclays Capital with a $3.75 million fine for a decade-long failure to properly preserve electronic records, e-mails and instant messages.
02 January 2014
With regulators trawling trader chat logs for evidence of wrongdoing, Bloomberg has rolled out tools to help firms monitor and restrict access to its chat room functions.
18 December 2013
Wall Street's biggest banks and Thomson Reuters have signed up for a new open messaging network from financial information provider Markit which threatens Bloomberg's dominance of the chat market.
07 October 2013
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