The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange has become the first exchange in the MENA region to offer official live market data through conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models, the Emirates News Agency reported on August 13, 2026.

ADX said the feed runs through a governed Model Context Protocol server, so investors, institutions, developers, and other market participants can query source-grade exchange data in plain language instead of relying only on specialist terminals or bespoke API integrations. Group CEO Abdulla Salem Alnuaimi framed the launch as a transparency and inclusion play aligned with Abu Dhabi’s AI-inspired economy goals.

What the MCP feed exposes

Users can configure AI applications against official ADX sources under four usage plans, from a free tier to AED 49.99 per month, with limits on usage, refresh frequency, historical depth, and concurrent connections. Available datasets include per-symbol market depth, bid-ask spreads, retail versus institutional and foreign versus local flow statistics, XBRL financial disclosures, and index constituents.

ADX said fintechs and research firms can build analytics on the feed, brokers can white-label AI trading assistants, institutions can use segmented order-book visibility, and retail investors can ask natural-language questions against official data on the AI platforms they already use.

Decoded Take

Exchanges are becoming AI distribution platforms. Putting live order-book and disclosure data behind MCP lowers the interface barrier, but it also raises product and liability questions about freshness, hallucination, and who is responsible when an assistant misstates a quote. For MENA capital markets, the strategic signal is that Abu Dhabi wants market infrastructure to show up inside global AI assistants, not only on local terminals. Watch whether other regional exchanges copy the MCP pattern, and whether ADX adds agent-ready trading actions or stays read-only.