LSEG and Microsoft Extend Multi-year Partnership

LSEG and Microsoft have unveiled a further development for their multi-year strategic partnership, by providing agentic AI with data made accessible through an LSEG managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The offering converges workflow integration inside trading and research operations, by allowing custom AI agents to be built directly into workflows, within the Microsoft Copilot Studio, and deployed in Microsoft 365 Copilot, supported by LSEG data. Additionally, LSEG clients will be able to connect with data, licensed through LSEG products including Workspace and Financial Analytics to build the AI agents, to combine human expertise and large language model (LLM) reasoning with LSEG’s financial data, content and analytics. David Schwimmer, group chief executive at LSEG, said: “LSEG’s partnership with Microsoft is transforming 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.” The collaboration is also expected to address challenges of expensive and lengthy integration of multiple technologies often faced by customers, by providing a simplified and sped up delivery of AI-enabled tools and applications. The firms will deliver LSEG data through the MCP in phases, beginning with the initial rollout of LSEG Financial Analytics.