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LSEG

LSEG is a London headquartered global markets infrastructure and financial data group. This profile covers its Data and Analytics division, formed through the 2021 acquisition of Refinitiv and separate from the group's exchange, clearing and index administration businesses. Its flagship platform is LSEG Workspace, serving more than 350,000 users across over 1,000 applications over a data estate of some 33 petabytes, alongside LSEG Financial Analytics and the Risk Intelligence screening business behind World Check, used in financial crime compliance.

The generative line in Workspace runs through a multi year strategic partnership with Microsoft, with Microsoft AI integrated natively. Company Intelligence is a shipped agent that assembles a structured company briefing, and an LSEG managed interoperability protocol server lets customers build agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio against LSEG licensed data. A separate partnership routes LSEG fundamentals, estimates and a merger database covering more than 1.5 million transactions into Rogo. In financial crime, World Check One's name matching is powered by Babel Street Match.

In September 2026 LSEG Risk Intelligence launched Active Intelligence, a data engine built on Amazon Bedrock. Its first product, World Check Resolve, re ranks screening matches with machine learning and shows which record elements sit behind each score. LSEG reports a 74 percent average reduction in false positives in testing with no loss of recall, while every final risk decision stays with the customer's analysts. World Check is also delivered into Salesforce through a documented integration.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2021
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Website
www.lseg.com
Categories
capital-markets-ai, aml-kyc-financial-crime
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 6 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
CC on AI CentralityArtificial intelligence is present but peripheral: a feature layer on a product whose value stands without it.
Vendor Published

The Workspace agent is described as a reporting layer over existing financial and market data, and World Check Resolve re ranks World Check matches with machine learning. Without the inference, the licensed data platform, analytics and screening content all remain, which is what customers pay for.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Resolve does not make compliance decisions for the customer, Active Intelligence is designed to support analysts, and customers keep control of every final risk decision. Thresholds and audit sampling are unpublished, and for agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio against LSEG data the oversight controls belong to Microsoft.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

Record elements behind each match score are shown in Resolve, which supports case notes and audit evidence for supervisory expectations on AI. The test method, data set and validation package behind its headline result are unpublished, and no supervisory framework is named.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
Vendor Published

Testing of World Check Resolve cut false positives by an average of 74 percent with no reduction in recall, by LSEG's account. No customer is named with an outcome for Resolve or the Workspace agent.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Whether customer queries, connected data or screening results train models, and how long they are kept, is not stated for Workspace AI or Active Intelligence. Responsible and secure AI appears in partnership language without a term a buyer could rely on.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Developer pages point to the group's standard privacy statement, with no processing terms, retention or isolation published for the generative features or screening data sent to Resolve. A planned phase letting firms combine their own data with LSEG datasets in the Microsoft environment makes that gap concrete.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

An information security white paper describes alignment with multiple frameworks and supplier security requirements but names no certification, audit type or trust portal. SOC reports and ISO certification for specific products would be expected from a group of this scale.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Group authorizations for an exchange, clearing house and benchmark administrator do not attach to a research platform, a screening database or their AI features. For the Data and Analytics division, no regulatory position is stated, usual for a data supplier.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Match re ranking decides which names an analyst sees first, and name matching performs unevenly across scripts and transliterations. Fairness testing and a governance framework are unpublished, and whether the false positive reduction holds across name origins is unknown.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

A person wrongly matched has no route to LSEG, and when licensed content feeds a customer built agent on Microsoft's platform, responsibility splits three ways. Audit records and score rationale let an institution contest a finding, but LSEG publishes no allocation of loss for screening or agent errors.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

Microsoft's AI and Copilot Studio power Workspace, Amazon Bedrock runs Active Intelligence and Resolve, and Babel Street Match powers World Check One's name matching. Model families and versions are not mapped to features, and no subprocessor list is published.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
AA on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed integrations with the systems of record, core banking, policy administration, custodial or contact center platforms, verifiable in marketplace listings or public API documentation.
Vendor Published

World Check Customer Risk Screener is documented on the public developer portal as a Salesforce Lightning integration using flows or Apex with date stamped audit records. World Check One also ships by API, with data reaching Microsoft 365 through a protocol server and datasets reaching Rogo.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Data distribution can run on site, hosted or in public cloud, but no region, residency or tenancy position is published for the AI features. Where Resolve processes screening data, and whether European data stays in Europe, is open.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Neither Workspace nor the World Check products carry a published price, tier or unit of charge. Whether the Workspace agent or Resolve comes inside existing subscriptions is not stated.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Workspace serves more than 350,000 users across the buy side, sell side, banks and corporates, and Risk Intelligence sells World Check to banks, non bank financial institutions and fintechs. Each line carries its own maintained products.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at LSEG, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Sep 9, 2026Integration / interoperability

LSEG released LSEG Workspace for Microsoft Teams, a Workspace application that brings LSEG data, news and analytics into Teams on desktop and mobile. It carries AI Search for natural language questions over LSEG content, Deep Research for structured analysis across companies, sectors, themes and supply chains, and Open Directory for finding and messaging financial professionals outside the user's own firm. The application has achieved Microsoft 365 Certification and is listed on the Microsoft Marketplace.

Bears on: Core Systems and Integration DepthSource
Our read on this update →Tracked since Sep 2026
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