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LSEG Launches First Phase of AI-Ready Content via MCP Server on Databricks Marketplace

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LSEG has launchedthe first phase of its AI-ready content on the Databricks Marketplace, delivered via its MCP Server. This milestone in the LSEG and Databricks partnership allows customers using Databricks’ AI product, Agent Bricks, to access LSEG’s financial datasets directly. This integration is designed to enable faster and more scalable AI innovation.

The content rollout begins with LSEG Financial Analytics, which follows the September addition of LSEG’s Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Historical Analytics. This initiative is part of LSEG’s broader ‘LSEG Everywhere’ AI strategy. LSEG’s AI-ready content totals more than 33 petabytes and aims to improve productivity and reduce risk by providing consistent, traceable, and audit-ready data.

The available datasets include Lipper Fund Data & Analytics, providing structured global fund information to help professionals enhance fund selection, benchmark performance, and optimise investment strategies. Historical Analytics delivers decades of time-series market data essential for back-testing, model training, and long-term market pattern analysis.

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