After three years of development, Symphony has launched the first agentic layer for global financial markets, enabling artificial intelligence (AI) agents to securely and autonomously execute financial transactions at scale. This development is designed to move financial agents beyond generating insights to functioning as accessible financial operators for a broader audience.
Symphony’s introduction of this infrastructure marks a significant step for agentic finance. The company initially showcased its capabilities through its own consumer application, which reportedly became the fastest-growing financial agent terminal by volume, processing over $140 million in transactions within months.
The platform now collaborates with more than 15 leading financial institutions and supports an ecosystem of over 300 agents engaged in developing autonomous trading and yield strategies. Vik Chawla, Co-Founder and CEO of Symphony, noted the convergence of three trends: large language models (LLMs) commoditizing financial insights, a cultural shift towards AI managing aspects of daily life, and a focus by AI research labs on financial systems. Chawla stated that tasks previously requiring “10 quants at hedge funds now take 10 minutes with an LLM,” positioning Symphony as an infrastructure layer for future financial markets.
Symphony’s infrastructure integrates AI, automation, and financial primitives into a unified orchestration layer. This design facilitates non-custodial agentic transactions, aims to eliminate execution hallucination risk, and ensures seamless composability across disparate systems. The technology is intended to allow individuals, even without technical expertise, to create and deploy intelligent financial agents.
James Berry, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Symphony, emphasized the company’s mission to empower the majority of the global population who may not possess coding skills or expertise in financial management. The founding team brings experience from organizations such as Blackstone, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Kraken Digital Exchange, Axelar, ConsenSys, Northrop Grumman, and Hermeus, covering AI, autonomous aerospace systems, blockchain, and data science.
Benjamin Scherr, Co-Founder and CTO of Symphony, highlighted that the infrastructure provides AI agents with immediate access to global liquidity, offering high-frequency trading (HFT)-level performance and institutional-grade security. He clarified that Symphony enables LLMs to focus on insight and analysis, while providing the secure rails for agents to execute financial transactions. Dean Amiel, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, added that speed and interoperability are crucial for agentic execution, which Symphony addresses through technical breakthroughs allowing parallelized financial transactions and modular integration with third-party systems, ensuring low latency and high finality.
Following a previous funding round in early 2024, Symphony is currently in discussions for its next round of investment as it prepares for further growth. The company positions its infrastructure as foundational for a new era of agentic finance, where intelligent systems transition from analytical functions to autonomous action across global markets.
