[HN Gopher] Claude for Financial Services
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       Claude for Financial Services
        
       Author : mildlyhostileux
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-07-15 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
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       | mildlyhostileux wrote:
       | Anthropic just dropped "Claude for Financial Services"
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       | -New models scoring higher on finance specific tasks
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       | -MCP connectors for popular datasets/datastores including
       | FactSet, PitchBook, S&P Global, Snowflake, Databricks, Box,
       | Daloopa, etc
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       | 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.
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       | 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?
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       | 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?
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       | 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.
        
         | varispeed wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | yodon wrote:
       | Queue the vibe investing stories
        
       | overgard wrote:
       | AI didn't eat code.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | " _Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or
       | linkbait; don 't editorialize._"
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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       | (Submitted title was "AI ate code, now it wants cashflows. Is
       | this finance's Copilot moment?" - we've changed it now)
        
       | jasonthorsness wrote:
       | I think their vending machine project might need to succeed
       | before you should trust Claude for investment advice:
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       | https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1
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       | 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.
        
       | khurs wrote:
       | 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?
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       | Deepseek was made by a HedgeFund founder, so he is also well
       | placed.
        
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