Microsoft Forges AI Alliance with London Stock Exchange - Financial Data Gets ’Agentic’ Upgrade

Wall Street meets Silicon Valley in a landmark partnership that could reshape financial data analysis forever.

The AI Revolution Hits Trading Floors

Microsoft's artificial intelligence division is teaming with one of the world's oldest financial institutions to create what they're calling 'agentic' AI systems built specifically for market data. This isn't just another algorithm update—it's about creating autonomous systems that can interpret financial patterns with human-like intuition but machine-level speed.

Data Becomes the New Currency

While traders obsess over bitcoin prices, the real value might be in the data pipelines feeding these new AI models. The London Stock Exchange's decades of market data combined with Microsoft's cloud infrastructure creates a testing ground for AI that could eventually predict market movements before humans spot the patterns.

Because what's more valuable than money? The intelligence to know where it's flowing next. Though let's be honest—if this works, the first thing it'll probably do is automate some hedge fund manager's bonus calculation.

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Agentic AI acts as an ‘agent’ and can carry out various tasks autonomously. Under the renewed partnership, Microsoft will give businesses the ability to use its Copilot Studio to create low-code AI agents that can be integrated into their everyday workflows in its productivity suite Microsoft 365.

Microsoft and LESG Onboard Customers

To fuel the AI agent, LESG data will be supplied via its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. MCPs are specialized systems that enable AI models to interact with external tools and data sources in real time.

These systems make it possible for such models to perform a wide range of actions, such as analyzing a spreadsheet or financial data, running a code snippet, querying a database, or even deploying a software.

The goal of the collaboration is to enable “users to make confident decisions faster”, LESG said in a statement. The collaborative effort will also empower businesses to streamline complex workflows, explained Nick Parker, a top executive at Microsoft.

Already, Microsoft and LSEG have started onboarding customers to help them build their first AI agents. However, both institutions did not reveal the details of the clients they are working with.

The MOVE comes as Microsoft continues to make progress in its effort to power integrate artificial intelligence, both at the enterprise and the individual level. Other Big Tech companies are also racing towards the same goal.

Is Microsoft a Buy, Sell, or Hold?

Turning to Wall Street, Microsoft’s shares currently have a Strong Buy consensus rating on TipRanks. This is based on 34 Buys and one Hold assigned by analysts over the past three months.

Moreover, the average MSFT price target of $628.055 suggests a 23% growth potential from the current level.