Bloomberg helps you make decisions quicker and with greater confidence. Access a steady stream of information and insight tailored to your trading strategy and your interests. Our instant and clear communication tools enhance broker connectivity to keep your strategy aligned with market movements.

Identify opportunities in the context of real-time market events and access new sources of liquidity. Visualize the impact of investments on the risk profile of the portfolio and compare execution venues for best execution. Optimize your trade efficiency, then act upon your trade strategy quickly and compliantly, and do it all in one efficient trading environment.

Start the day getting up to speed quickly. World events impact your PM’s strategy and your goals of the moment. Keep your team and your clients apprised of what’s happening and why, using Bloomberg Intelligence for deeper insight and understanding. In an age of automated trading and robo-advisors, insight is your edge.

Use valuation tools that have become the industry standard and back up your assessment with true pricing transparency. Identify opportunities arising from discrepancies between the market price and underlying value of an asset. Demonstrate the soundness of your strategy with forward-looking analytic tools that help you forecast the chance that a currency, commodity or rate movement will be realized on an exact date.

Quick, secure, and compliant communication drives your business. Share news, intelligence and insight with your team, your clients or the sell side across the world’s first, fastest and largest secure financial network. Connect with a unique community of over 320,000 Bloomberg subscribers. Bloomberg is built on enabling you to access, understand and share reliable information instantly, and you can stay connected when you’re away from your desk with Bloomberg Anywhere.

Time is money. Stop wasting it jumping between your Bloomberg Terminal and other trading systems. We integrate EMS functions like algorithmic trading, pre-trade analytics and charting into our OMS. As a result, we deliver a workflow optimized for efficiency throughout the entire trade process. We bring all our tools together in an industry-leading platform that provides the agility successful traders require to execute quickly and intelligently.

Our trade execution tools can help you achieve optimal execution to the destination of your choice in one or multiple asset classes. Use our pre-trade analytics to make faster, more intelligent decisions from any OMS. Analyze execution performance across all venues in real time across the largest network available. Our multi-asset, broker-neutral solutions provide decision support, liquidity discovery, order analytics and performance assessment. From idea to execution, access everything you need from a single, customizable workspace.

Equities
Access pre-trade analytics to select and trade single and basket orders from any order management system. Choose the best broker for your trading strategy with true neutrality. Route trades to the execution venue of your choice. And analyze execution performance across all venues in real time.

Fixed income and derivatives
Our commission-free platform for cash fixed income links all available fixed income electronic trading products into one portal and provides multi-dealer, executable composite pricing, so you can stage, monitor, trade and allocate trades through a single function on the Bloomberg Terminal. Our execution management system allows liquidity takers to route and execute orders into Bloomberg’s trading platform and other venues, so you can quickly and efficiently manage your trades.

For derivatives trading, our swap execution facility (SEF) provides participants access to multiple execution styles and liquidity across numerous asset classes including rates, credit, currency and commodity derivatives in the U.S., while Bloomberg’s multilateral trading facility (MTF) will provide eligible participants access to an order book and request for quote functionality and liquidity across the CDS and IRS asset classes.

Foreign exchange
Our multi-bank FX trading platform provides powerful functionality for you to execute foreign exchange transactions with your bank relationships. We offer a commission-free electronic trading platform for the execution of spot, outright, swap, NDF, deposit, order and option transactions.

Regulatory requirements are continually changing, personal liability is fast becoming a reality, and new communications technologies can introduce unexpected compliance liabilities into your workflow. Our compliance processes are integrated across the entire life cycle of the trade. Use secure technology that integrates pre- and post-trade compliance and regulatory checks seamlessly into your workflow. Our compliance features are aligned with the latest regulatory requirements and latest technologies to ensure your workflow remains efficient, secure and compliant.

Protect your positions proactively rather than reactively. Take fast, informed action to maximize opportunities and mitigate risks with our comprehensive integrated risk oversight tools. Run hypotheticals against current or historic market conditions to analyze the impact of your hedging strategy. Calculate the mark-to-market of your hedges, conduct sensitivity analyses and master liquidity planning with integrated tools that help you manage your exposures and contain your risk with confidence.