Thanks. I see the context now. Our asset managers are indeed lucky to have Bloomberg and such, which are easily integratable (and indeed, have been "SQL" for more than a decade now). I'm aware of the third party providers of customer financial information. Lucky to operate in a niche that is not served by them. Graydon (the only one I've been in contact with) is facing a massive disruption though. Their higher tiers are perhaps not enterprise expensive, but Trellis and the likes are probably more integratable and more affordable.

But still, the one building the LLM-integration is 4x as expensive as the one manually entering the data. It's all about TOC, scale and risk perception. I also love that "risk people" (in the banking context, I'd say: model people) think their data quality should be exceptional and then use end user computing MacGyver style models. Spit and popsicle sticks.