The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft are advancing their strategic partnership to enhance agentic AI services, as they seek to transform how financial institutions access and use licensed financial data.

In this phase of the partnership, agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio and installed in Microsoft 365 Copilot will be powered by LSEG data to improve decision-making and productivity in financial operations.

Using a new MCP server, an open server that allows AI agents to access external tools and services, LSEG customers will be able to connect to data licensed through LSEG products including Workspace and Financial Analytics to create AI agents in Copilot Studio.

The use of the MCP server enables the transfer of datasets in a standardised environment, aiming to simplify and speed up the delivery of AI-based tools and applications.

Copilot Studio is a platform that allows users to create, customise and deploy advanced AI agents which can be integrated directly into workflows via Microsoft 365 Copilot and other applications.

The partnership said that through Copilot Studio, users will now be able to access financial data and analytics licensed through LSEG directly within their daily workflows to compose sophisticated AI agents, combining policies, prompts, tools and actions.

The initiative builds on LSEG's AI strategy, called LSEG Everywhere, which aims to provide reliable and authoritative data to power AI in financial services.

LSEG Everywhere's AI-related content and taxonomies include decades of data totalling over 33 petabytes, which it says makes it a key decision-making tool for for Microsoft 365 Copilot users in the financial industry.

The integration aims to unify human expertise and large language model (LLM) reasoning with LSEG's financial data, content and analytics in a secure low-code environment, the firms.LSEG and Microsoft also stated they are currently working with customers to create their first agents in Copilot Studio based on LSEG data.

They added that LSEG data will be accessible via MCP in a phased rollout, starting with LSEG Financial Analytics.

David Schwimmer, group chief executive officer at LSEG said the partnership with Microsoft aims to boost access to data for financial professionals with cutting edge, AI-driven innovation at scale.

“LSEG customers can build, deploy and scale agentic AI directly into their workflows with secure, seamless connectivity through MCP,” he added.

Nick Parker, Microsoft chief business officer and president, worldwide sales & solutions said that by combining LSEG’s trusted market data with Microsoft’s cloud and AI capabilities, it is “empowering customers to unlock deeper insights, accelerate decision-making and streamline complex workflows.”

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