LSEG and Databricks join forces on AI-ready data

September 23, 2025

LSEG has announced a strategic partnership with Databricks to make its financial data natively available on the Databricks platform.

The move will enable financial institutions to build and deploy AI-driven agents and analytics applications more efficiently, using the Databricks Agent Bricks framework. The collaboration begins with Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Cross Asset Analytics, with a wider range of datasets such as pricing, reference data, models including Starmine, fundamentals, estimates, economics and tick history set to follow.

The partnership addresses a long-standing issue in financial services: the difficulty of managing fragmented and outdated data processes. Many teams are held back by batch-based delivery systems that require significant manual integration, slowing down model building and leaving analysts behind in fast-moving markets. By integrating LSEG’s datasets with Databricks’ AI-ready environment, the partnership aims to streamline access to live financial data and enhance decision-making across investment, trading and risk management workflows.

Databricks and LSEG plan to make these datasets discoverable through the Databricks Marketplace using Delta Sharing, an open source framework for secure, real-time data distribution. The approach is intended to help financial firms unify their enterprise data with external datasets in order to innovate faster and maintain competitiveness.

Agent Bricks, Databricks’ AI agent framework, is designed to reduce the time needed to bring financial AI tools into production. By combining raw tick data or reference datasets with internal data, institutions can launch production-ready agents in a matter of days. These agents are built with features such as automated accuracy optimisation, governance and cost efficiency. Potential applications range from natural language portfolio risk assessments and anomaly detection in trading, to auto-generated compliance reporting.

Stephen Orban, Databricks SVP of product ecosystem & partnerships, said, “Customers tell us they have an insatiable appetite for high-quality, AI-ready data to accelerate their analytics and AI workloads.

“Together, LSEG and Databricks can now empower financial institutions to quickly build AI agents that use LSEG’s data to automate tasks, analyse trends and provide real-time, actionable insights. By leveraging Delta Sharing, teams can access and integrate live financial data without complex pipelines or vendor lock-in. This gives them a simple, secure way to go from raw data to smarter decisions about investments, risk and trading in just days.”

LSEG group head of analytics & AI Emily Prince said, “This partnership with Databricks marks an important step in bringing LSEG’s trusted data to where customers need it most.

“By adding our industry-leading datasets to Databricks Marketplace, we are empowering financial institutions to unlock new levels of intelligence, efficiency, and compliance. It highlights our drive to integrate with the platforms and workflows clients use most, helping them unlock value.”