Agents for financial services
Anthropic News · 2026-05-05
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- Anthropic is releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates covering common financial services workflows including pitchbooks, KYC screening, and month-end close.
- Claude now integrates directly with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook (Outlook coming soon) via add-ins that carry context across applications.
- Claude Opus 4.7 leads the Vals AI Finance Agent benchmark at 64.37%.
- New data connectors from Dun & Bradstreet, Fiscal AI, Guidepoint, SS&C IntraLinks, Third Bridge, and Verisk are being added, along with a Moody's MCP app.
- Agents can be deployed either as plugins in Claude Cowork/Claude Code or as autonomous Claude Managed Agents for scheduled, long-running workflows.
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These updates pair best with Claude Opus 4.7, which is state-of-the-art on financial tasks and leads the industry on Vals AI's Finance Agent benchmark, at 64.37%.
Claude carries its knowledge and context across all four platforms: an analyst who's started a model in Excel doesn't need to re-explain it when that work moves to PowerPoint.
100% of employees at Walleye Capital use Claude Code. This level of adoption across our 400-person hedge fund reflects our AI-first mindset.