Anthropic launches financial AI agents and Claude Opus 4.7, deepens Wall Street integration with $1.5 billion joint venture

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7 and a library of roughly 10 pre-built AI agents for financial workflows including pitchbooks, earnings analysis, credit memos, underwriting, KYC, month-end close, statement audits, and insurance claims. The company also announced full Microsoft 365 integration enabling Claude to function across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook simultaneously.

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs created a $1.5 billion joint venture to deploy Claude into mid-sized companies. Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman each contributed roughly $300 million, with Goldman Sachs at $150 million; Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, Leonard Green, GIC, and Sequoia Capital also participated.

Claude Opus 4.7 leads Vals AI's Finance Agent benchmark with a score of 64.4% and tops the GDPval-AA evaluation. Moody's embedded its full platform into Claude as a native app, enabling analysis of credit ratings and risk data for more than 600 million companies. Anthropic has placed Claude into production at JPMorganChase, Goldman Sachs, Citi, AIG, Visa, and others.