Anthropic, backed by Amazon, has launched Claude for Financial Services, a new AI-driven platform designed to assist financial analysts with market research and due diligence. The solution integrates financial data from market feeds and internal platforms into a single interface, leveraging Claude 4 models, Claude Code, and Claude for Enterprise with expanded usage limits. It includes pre-built MCP connectors to financial data sources such as FactSet. This launch marks Anthropic's expansion into the financial technology sector, aiming to address the industry's need for advanced AI tools to process large volumes of structured data. The move comes amid increased competition among AI companies, including OpenAI and xAI, which are actively recruiting quantitative finance talent from major firms like Citadel, D.E. Shaw, and Jane Street. Industry evaluations indicate that both Anthropic and OpenAI are advancing financial AI capabilities, reflecting growing reliance by financial institutions on such technologies.