Here are Q2 2026 (April – June) supply market research and information launch and acquisition announcements to note. Focus areas include financial/market data expansions and emerging sovereignty solutions.
Product Launches and Expanisons
IT procurement intelligence provider, NPI, announced Product IQ, a new solution within the NPI Vantage Pro platform that allows teams to research vendors and compare solutions all in in one place. NPI also launched PRISM (Pre-quote Renewal Intelligence & Strategy Module), a pre‑negotiation intelligence offering with components that include Contract Snapshot & Pricing Assessment, and Predictive Supplier Intelligence & Market Diagnostics, to name a few.
interos.ai unveiled their second-generation platform – iQ. The offering is comprised of 3 modules that include itariffs (maps tariffs across supply chain) itracing (product-level supply chain risk visibility which can be mapped to bill of materials), and ireputation (exposes reputational risk across supply chain).
Beroe and Kearney launched Beroe MAX, an AI-driven decision engine that integrates market intelligence, consulting frameworks, and user data to deliver real-time recommendations across cost, risk, and ESG metrics.
Omnea launched Price Intelligence, which is powered by Tropic’s price benchmark data. Omnea AI acts as the context layer while Tropic is the data layer, allowing customers to know what they should be paying. Tropic launched the Tropic Intelligence Hub, a free resource that brings together the company’s proprietary spend intelligence, expert analysis, and negotiation intelligence in one always-on destination.
Novata announced Risk Atlas, a new AI risk monitoring tool that uses intelligence from specialized service providers to continuously surface, structure, and refresh signals across five key categories: reputational, cyber, geopolitical, physical climate, and transition risk.
Focus on Financial and Market Data
Claude released ten agent templates for work in financial services and expanded with new connectors and an MCP app. Claude connects to market data and research platforms that include FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, MSCI, PitchBook, Morningstar, Chronograph, LSEG, and Daloopa. The new connectors give direct access to market and research data to Dun & Bradstreet, Fiscal AI, IBISWorld, SS&C Intralinks, Third Bridge, and Verisk, to name a few. Moody’s launched an MCP app that brings credit ratings and data on more than 600 million public and private companies.
OpenAI has also expanded into a variety of markets, including financial services. In May, it introduced plugins for finance professionals that review market and company information from Moody’s, Daloopa, Datasite, FactSet, LSEG, S&P, PitchBook, and Hebbia. More role-specific plugins are coming soon, including Corporate Finance, Private Equity Investing, Marketing Strategy, Strategy Consulting, and Legal.
Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance, which allows teams to connect their own credentials through MCP connectors for Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc. Teams without a terminal can use Computer’s built-in finance tools, which draw on data from 14 providers. Computer also includes 40+ live finance tools for market data, filings, earnings transcripts, analyst ratings, and more with sources like SEC, FactSet, S&P Global, Nasdaq, and NYSE.
Focus on Sovereignty Offerings – Sovereignty-focused solutions are emerging from providers across varying disciplines.
AI-powered digital transformation provider, Atos Group, globally launched its integrated Digital Sovereignty offering to help organizations retain control and authority over their data and infrastructure while continuously managing critical dependencies and disruption risks.
IT and business consulting services firm, CGI, announced a high-security sovereign AI and data services platform in Finland. The service provides an KATAKRI-compliant (National Security Auditing Criteria) environment enabling organizations to develop and operate AI applications in a secure environment.
Telecommunications and secure digital solutions provider, BT Business, unveiled its end-to-end sovereign enterprise technology portfolio for public and private sector organizations. It is a unified suite of services covering sovereign connectivity, voice, cloud, and AI. The suite allows organizations to keep sensitive workloads within the UK jurisdiction and source the full stack from a single provider.
Acquisitions
Vertice and Vendr – Intelligent procurement platform provider, Vertice, acquired US software pricing intelligence Vendr (software pricing intelligence), creating, according to Vertice’s Eldar Tuvey, the world’s largest procurement intelligence dataset. He states “Together, our software pricing and vendor intelligence now exceeds that of our nearest competitor by an order of magnitude.”
Supplier.io and TealBook – Supplier.io, a supplier intelligence provider, acquired data foundation specialtst TealBook. Supplier.io’s new vendor master data management solution, Atlas, has been launched, which combines Supplier.io’s deep supplier intelligence layer with TealBook’s specialized vendor master data capabilities.
SecurityScorecard and Driftnet – SecurityScorecard’s completed acquisition of Driftnet will bring Driftnet’s internet discovery engine into SecurityScorecard’s TITAN AI platform. Using the Driftnet engine, SecurityScorecard’s threat intelligence team identified more than 816,000 internet-exposed AI OpenClaw agent deployments.
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July 7, 2026
