The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft have taken a transformative step in their multi-year strategic partnership, announcing the expansion of AI-ready financial data integration into Microsoft’s AI agent platforms. This collaboration enables financial services professionals to build, deploy, and scale sophisticated agentic AI workflows within Microsoft Copilot Studio, powered by LSEG’s licensed data delivered seamlessly through an LSEG-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
This breakthrough allows organizations to combine human expertise, advanced large language model (LLM) reasoning, and LSEG’s trusted content to accelerate decision-making, enhance productivity, and reduce barriers to innovation, all within the familiar Microsoft 365 suite.
What the LSEG Microsoft Partnership Offers
- Agentic AI Workflows:
Users can compose specialized AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio – a low-code platform – that automate complex financial operations by utilizing deep insights from LSEG’s over 33 petabytes of historical market data and analytics. - Secure, Seamless Data Access:
The partnership employs the MCP, an open-source standard server that governs data flow and AI access, ensuring compliance and high trust for licensed financial data inside AI models. - Workflow Integration:
Financial content is available directly within Microsoft 365 applications like Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, enabling embedded AI agents to provide context-aware insights and automate routine tasks. - Phased Rollout:
Starting with LSEG Financial Analytics, the integration will progressively include more LSEG datasets such as Workspace and other market analytics products.
Impact on Financial Services
David Schwimmer, LSEG Group CEO, emphasized:
“Our partnership with Microsoft is transforming access to data for financial professionals, making AI-driven innovation at scale a reality. LSEG customers can now easily build, deploy, and scale agentic AI directly into their workflows, assured of secure and seamless connectivity through MCP.”
Nick Parker, Microsoft Chief Business Officer, added:
“This collaboration redefines the future of financial services, combining LSEG’s trusted data with Microsoft’s AI and cloud strengths to empower customers with deeper insights, accelerated decision-making, and streamlined workflows.”
How It Works
- LSEG licenses and curates massive datasets going back decades, totalling 33+ petabytes.
- These datasets are made AI-ready and accessible in real time through the MCP server, managed by LSEG.
- Microsoft Copilot Studio connects AI agents to these datasets, allowing financial firms to build tailored agents using policies, prompts, tools, and workflow automation.
- Agentic AI agents streamline decision-making, risk assessment, and compliance tasks in a governed, trusted low-code environment.
The Broader Vision: LSEG Everywhere AI Strategy
This partnership is part of LSEG’s “LSEG Everywhere” AI strategy, delivering reliable, authoritative, and licensed data ecosystems at scale to power intelligent automation and AI services across the financial industry and beyond.
Why This Matters
- For financial institutions: Faster insight generation, automated workflows, and reduced operational overhead.
- For regulatory compliance: Secure, auditable AI usage of licensed data respects intellectual property and privacy.
- For AI innovation: Enables rapid prototyping and deployment of complex AI-driven financial applications.
This integration is a fundamental building block for the widespread adoption of AI agents in the financial sector and sets a new standard for AI data partnerships.