QCon London 2026: Morgan Stanley Rethinks Its API Program for the MCP Era

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Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live s covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also ed Google's A2A protocol running alongside MCP. By Steef-Jan Wiggers