The partnership between London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft is redefining how financial services firms harness data and artificial intelligence.
By combining LSEG’s trusted financial data with Microsoft’s technology stack, the collaboration is unlocking new possibilities — from streamlining daily workflows to empowering teams to build their own AI agents without the traditional barriers of complex engineering requirements.
LSEG-licensed data can now be activated within Microsoft M365 Copilot, spanning applications such as Teams and Excel, and can even be embedded directly into clients’ own platforms. MCP connectors are also enabling the creation of AI agents that draw on this entire ecosystem, delivering faster data analysis, fewer manual steps, and more informed decision-making across financial organisations.
Unlocking value through data and AI
Financial services firms worldwide are already implementing AI use cases made possible by the LSEG–Microsoft collaboration. Central to this is the enrichment of LSEG’s market data with additional governance and permissions information, giving Copilot a nuanced understanding of different user types and client contexts.
Microsoft senior director of financial services industry, LSEG partnership Niall Archibald said, “These joint product initiatives between LSEG and Microsoft are massive co-engineering efforts. They are also customer-led, across personas, segments and workflows.”
Working back from the user experience
At the heart of the partnership is LSEG Workspace — a customisable financial platform delivering real-time data, news, analytics, and trading tools to more than 350,000 users across over 1,000 applications. Microsoft AI is now natively integrated within this environment, bridging powerful financial data with intuitive AI-driven tools.
LSEG group head of Workspace Nej D’Jelal said, “Enabling this collaboration was not just overlaying the 33 petabytes of LSEG data with a natural language experience. In financial services, trust and accuracy – underpinned by robust data governance – are critical. Data used to make decisions needs to be linked to its underlying provenance.”
Queries within Workspace are designed to surface the right data for each specific user type — whether a trader, wealth manager, or investment manager — with governance embedded throughout. D’Jelal added, “This user experience delivers the trust that’s needed to enable AI to truly support everyday workflow.”
Understanding the client
Financial professionals spend much of their working day within Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Users can already discover LSEG data within these apps via agents built in Copilot Studio, delegating tasks to Copilot for execution within Workspace, before pulling outputs into Excel or PowerPoint for further analysis — reducing time spent switching between systems.
Microsoft principal software engineer Sahana Prabhakar said, “Copilot brings a built-in understanding of the client relationship, based on internal enterprise intelligence and context to the query. This guides discovery, drives faster insight, and optimizes workflow.”
Democratising AI agent creativity
Through MCP connectors, users can now build AI agents directly in Copilot Studio using data licensed via Workspace and LSEG Financial Analytics.
LSEG group head of analytics and group head of AI Emily Prince said, “I know from my experience working at financial firms that in the past it has been incredibly difficult to work with data.
“Great ideas would get stuck at implementation, either because firms didn’t have the data or didn’t have the access to the time of engineering and technology teams. People haven’t been able to ideate in the way they perhaps wanted to.”
Prince added, “Based on your needs, MCP will surface the data for your use case. It will also help you to discover data that you might not know was available, such as historical data. This makes it much easier to bring AI agents into production, and to truly innovate.”
Looking to the future
The next phase of the partnership will enable firms to integrate their own proprietary data alongside LSEG’s datasets and Microsoft’s AI, opening the door to more personalised insights and sophisticated process automation. Prince said, “I believe this is going to unlock almost boundless creativity.”
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