Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger Numbers Surge as Yahoo Retires Legacy Messaging Platform
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Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger Numbers Surge as Yahoo Retires Legacy Messaging
Platform
Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited (GM&T) and Dong Energy are latest
commodity and energy companies to publicly endorse Eikon Messenger as Thomson
Reuters community grows to 288k users in recent weeks
NEW YORK/LONDON, August 5, 2016 - Thomson Reuters has seen a significant
increase in new Eikon Messenger account registrations after the announcement
that Yahoo will discontinue support for its legacy messaging and API service on
August 5, 2016. Global energy company Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited and
Dong Energy, Denmark's largest energy company, are the latest firms to publicly
endorse Eikon Messenger following similar endorsements from Europe's top energy
brokers and international energy companies.
"Eikon messenger delivers all the compliance and messaging functionalities
needed to stay well connected to the energy trading markets," said Shaun Stacey,
global director of trading at GM&T.
The number of Eikon Messenger users connecting with counterparts on Yahoo
Messenger has grown by 115% over the last quarter as many commodity and energy
market participants encourage their counterparts to join them on Eikon Messenger
ahead of the Yahoodeadline. A survey from petrochemical market information
provider ICIS recently showed that Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger has emerged
as the messaging platform of choice for professionals migrating from Yahoo
Messenger's legacy messaging service.
"Eikon Messenger provides Dong Energy's trading floor with a platform to
communicate effectively with other market participants and satisfy our
compliance obligations. In addition the ability to easily find other contacts is
very helpful," said Joe Mann, head of market trading at Dong Energy.
Since the start of the year the number of users migrating to Eikon Messenger
from Yahoo Messenger has resulted in 7% growth in the Eikon Messenger Directory
which now provides access to more than 288,000 users across 25,000 organizations
in 180 countries.
"The growth in our Eikon Messenger community demonstrates the continuing need
for financial professionals to have access to an instant messaging platform that
meets rigorous compliance needs, can connect with users on other messaging
platforms, is cost-effective and improves workflow," said Lesli Fairchild, head
of collaboration services, Thomson Reuters. "We are committed to collaborating
with network providers across the marketplace to provide our clients with
innovative solutions that remove the barriers to communication in financial
markets caused by closed networks. Thomson Reuters also remains committed to
helping energy and other firms in the process of transitioning from Yahoo's
messaging platform."
Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger is an established, open and secure instant
messaging collaboration tool for the global financial community. Available as
part of Thomson Reuters Eikon and as a standalone, free-of-charge application,
Eikon Messenger aids regulatory compliance by including bilateral chat controls
in conjunction with a suite of active compliance tools, including features for
keyword blocking, disclaimers and policy enforcement. Eikon Messenger is also
supported on iOS, Blackberry, Android and Windows devices.
In keeping with its open platform commitment, Thomson Reuters recently announced
an agreement with CME Group to implement connectivity between Eikon Messenger
and CME Pivot Instant Messaging in support of open and compliant cross-industry
communication for financial and commodities markets. This combined service,
available in Q3 2016, will allow over 300,000 current market participants using
the respective messenger services to communicate seamlessly across platforms.
In a separate announcement, financial services firm INTL FCStone Inc. and
European energy companies Griffin, 42FS, Marex Spectron and CEZ named Thomson
Reuters Eikon Messenger as one of their instant messaging networks of choice.
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