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Claude for Financial Services

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Re: Claude for Financial Services

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Post by mildlyhostileux »

Anthropic just dropped “Claude for Financial Services”

-New models scoring higher on finance specific tasks

-MCP connectors for popular datasets/datastores including FactSet, PitchBook, S&P Global, Snowflake, Databricks, Box, Daloopa, etc

This looks a lot like what Claude Code did for coding: better models, good integrations, etc. But finance isn’t pure text, the day‑to‑day medium is still Excel and PowerPoint.Curious to see how this plays out in the long to medium term.

Devs already live in textual IDEs and CLIs, so an inline LLM feels native. Analysts live in nested spreadsheets, model diagrams, and slide decks. Is a side‑car chat window enough? Will folks really migrate fully into Claude?

Accuracy a big issue everywhere, but finance has always seemed particularly sensitive. While their new model benchmarks well, it still seems to fall short of what an IBank/PE MD might expect?

Curious to hear from anyone thats been in the pilot group or got access to the 1 month demo today. Early pilots at Bridgewater, NBIM, AIG, CBA claim good productivity gains for analysts and underwriters.

Re: Claude for Financial Services

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Post by varispeed »

mildlyhostileux wrote: post #2

Anthropic just dropped “Claude for Financial Services” -New models scoring higher on finance specific tasks -MCP connectors for popular datasets/datastores including FactSet, PitchBook, S&P Global, Snowflake, Databricks, Box, Daloopa, etc This looks a lot like what Claude Code did for coding: better models, good integrations, etc. But finance isn’t pure text, the day‑to‑day medium is still Excel and PowerPoint.Curiou…

I find it helpful. Just drop a soup of numbers and ask "Is this business viable" and go from there. I have not used LLM specific for financial services, but ballpark figures and ideas were very useful for planning. Definitely a time saver and helps to iterate quicker.

Re: Claude for Financial Services

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Post by jasonthorsness »

I think their vending machine project might need to succeed before you should trust Claude for investment advice:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Fun aside, finance and code can both depend critically on small details. Does finance have the same checks (linting, compiling, tests) that can catch problems in AI-generated code? I know Snowflake takes great pains to show whether queries generating reports are "validated" by humans or made up by AI, I think lots of people have these concerns.

Re: Claude for Financial Services

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Post by khurs »

LLMs came out in 2022 and Finance being a lucrative sector and heavy on tech staff has had 2.5 years to move on this.

So what is the existing competition? what is JP Morgan doing already in house/Bloomberg offering?

Deepseek was made by a HedgeFund founder, so he is also well placed.

Re: Claude for Financial Services

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Post by paxys »

khurs wrote: post #8

LLMs came out in 2022 and Finance being a lucrative sector and heavy on tech staff has had 2.5 years to move on this. So what is the existing competition? what is JP Morgan doing already in house/Bloomberg offering? Deepseek was made by a HedgeFund founder, so he is also well placed.

Investment firms aren't known to advertise or resell their secret sauce. AI has been used in trading in some form or the other for close to 40 years now.
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