Thomson Reuters Combines Eikon Desktop with Symphony

Thomson Reuters has teamed up with investment bank-backed communications firm Symphony and integrated their respective messaging platforms. The partnership will allow users to share Thomson Reuters’ Eikon content, news and data through Symphony’s communications service. Symphony’s messaging platform is used as a replacement for traditional email and voice systems to communicate securely both internally and externally. The Symphony community currently contains more than 200,000 licenses across 170 companies including 40 asset management firms and 25 global banks.