Capital Markets FinTech Forum

Are chatbots taking over? Symphony and FOW talk about their growing importance

Capital Markets FinTech Forum

Show Notes

We talk to Rob Friend, Product Director at Symphony and Simon Coughlan, Technology Director at FOW about how chatbots are transforming the world of work and enabling faster routes to market for new product offerings. In this podcast you'll learn about: Symphony chatbots and the key use cases across the back and front office for financial institutionsHow FOW quickly built their reference data chatbot in SymphonyBringing products to market faster with chatbots versus traditional applicat...

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