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The move will use LSEG data to allow custom AI agents to be built directly into workflows, within the Microsoft Copilot Studio, and deployed in Microsoft 365 Copilot. 

“Institutional teams are sitting on a wealth of data, but too often it’s locked behind manual processes and fragmented systems [...] It’s about giving distribution teams the intelligence they need, when and where they need it,” Nasdaq’s Daniel Brickhouse tells The TRADE. 

The move is set to help the firm increase efficiency and navigate trading costs, and follows an uptick in non-traditional liquidity providers investing in automation across the fixed income market.  

Dematerialised issuance to begin in 2026 as ICSDs introduce common data standard to streamline market processes. 

The offering will allow clients to continuously operate on the most advanced service and forms part of the firms’ drive to modernise capital markets and treasury infrastructure.  

The offering will allow firms to build governed AI agents using both enterprise and LSEG’s data, via Databrick’s Delta Sharing.  

The new offering - Orbit Flex - combines exclusive financial data with advanced AI infrastructure and workflows to remove cost and access barriers for smaller institutions.  

Market structure impacts and the potential for too much AI dependency were highlighted as a key are of focus for speakers on the algo panel at TradeTech FX 2025 on Wednesday. 

Awards for exchanges, sell-side firms, technology vendors and more to be handed out on 6 November at the Savoy in London alongside previously announced survey honours.

Individual has also previously worked across securities finance trading and automation at firms including State Street, EquiLend, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.