23% of CMC Invest Clients Use AI for Investing, So the Broker Launched a Native Engine

The Australian unit of CMC Markets has jumped on the AI bandwagon and become the latest broker to launch a dedicated AI engine in partnership with Telescope AI. Announced today (Tuesday), the AI engine will help investors navigate market movements and review portfolios.

In a separate announcement the same day, the broker's wholesale arm said its pricing had been connected to brokers through iSAM Securities' Apex liquidity bridge, a development covered further below.

A Product to Address Client Demand

Named CMC Intelligence, the AI engine offers insights across stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies in several markets, including Australia, the United States, Singapore, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

The launch came after the London-listed broker found that 23 per cent of its stock brokerage clients use AI for investing, up from 12 per cent six months ago. It appears the broker wants to keep its clients on its platform for as long as possible.

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Ryan O’Doherty, Head of Product for CMC Invest APAC, highlighted that the new AI product “addresses a common challenge for investors: maintaining clarity and confidence in fast-moving or volatile markets, which often requires monitoring fragmented and conflicting information across multiple sources.”

“AI-enabled solutions shift the focus to synthesis, helping clients cut through market noise by transforming complex market research and trade analysis into insights that are easier to understand, quicker to act on, and more relevant to real trading decisions.”

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Another Broker Enters the AI Race

Before CMC, several other brokers also launched AI products, and most appear to be focusing on third-party integrations rather than developing solutions to sit within their platforms.

IG, ThinkMarkets, Robinhood, and several others have launched MCP servers, enabling traders to connect their trading platforms to third-party AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. While some remained cautious and kept permissions to their trading platforms read-only, a few went all in and even allowed agentic trade execution through AI assistants.

CMC explained that the insights from its AI agents are generated using verified market data, corporate filings, regulatory disclosures, and public news sources.

“Working closely with CMC’s team to bring this to market has been exceptional,” said Luc Pettett, CEO of Telescope AI. “They understood that AI isn’t a feature add-on; it’s infrastructure that changes how investors engage with capital markets and ultimately empowers the investor.”

CMC Adds iSAM's Apex as a Liquidity Distribution Channel

On the institutional side, London-based prime-of-prime and liquidity technology provider iSAM Securities said its Apex liquidity bridge had integrated CMC Markets as a liquidity provider.

The firms said the move lets brokers running Apex tap CMC's pricing alongside the bridge's existing network of liquidity providers.

"Brokers are looking for technology that helps them move faster...," said Dennis Weissert, Chief Commercial Officer at iSAM Securities Apex, who added that CMC brings an institutional liquidity option inside the bridge while keeping it connected to Apex's risk and pricing tools.

iSAM, which is regulated by the FCA, SFC, and CFTC and registered with CIMA in the Cayman Islands, said Apex draws on the infrastructure behind its own market-making operation, including network design, physical servers, and CPU pinning, to deliver what the company describes as ultra-low latency pricing.

Apex has previously plugged in third-party tools, including reporting integrations announced when iSAM opened its Limassol office.

CMC has spent years widening where its prices show up across the broker market. Its wholesale arm, rebranded as CMC Markets Connect in 2021, distributes multi-asset liquidity to banks, brokerages, and funds, and the firm reports more than 2 million traders and investors worldwide.

Updated on June 23, 2026 to add CMC Markets' institutional liquidity integration with iSAM Securities' Apex bridge, including comment from both firms and competitive context.