Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
The move highlights how industries are increasingly building enterprise AI plans around proprietary and industry specific data.
Snowflake said the linchpin of the financial services offering is the company's new MCP Server, which connects data from the likes of MSCI, Nasdaq, AP and eVestment with agents built on Anthropic, CrewAI, Cursor, Cognition and Windsurf.
The company said Snowflake MCP Server is in public preview. Snowflake MCP Server can connect to platform tools such as Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search as well as third party external tools and data.
Snowflake said MCP Server can connect to Anthropic, Augment Code, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, CrewAI, Cursor, Devin by Cognition, Glean, Mistral, UiPath, Windsurf, Workday, and Writer.
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The data platform has been focusing on financial services data for years. In 2021, BlackRock and Snowflake partnered on Aladdin Data Cloud.
Key points about Cortex AI for Financial Services:
- Cortex AI for Financial Services connects a bevy of data sources via Cortex Knowlege Extensions to round out market analysis, research, business content and news.
- Machine learning workflows for risk modeling, forecasting, analytics and compliance are available in Cortex AI for Financial Services. Snowflake Data Science Agent can clean data, engineer feature and prototype and validate models.
- Unstructured data analysis is available via Cortex AISQL to pull insights from documents and images.
