Financial Industry Embraces Instant Messaging
Secure IM gains new support as major financial institutions sign on.
Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Corporate instant messaging got a needed ratings boost this week as a slew of leading financial firms announced plans to adopt a cross-industry secure IM service that will allow users to communicate instantly with colleagues and clients.
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More than 30,000 employees and clients of Credit Suisse First Boston, The Goldman Sachs Group, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings, Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., Salomon Smith Barney Holdings, UBS Warburg, and 2000 institutional money management firms will be using Communicator's Communicator Hub IM service.
Communicator began working with the financial services industry in mid-2000 for its first industry-wide deployment of the Hub IM service, according to Communicator Hub IM product......
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