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Real-Time Market Data Feed

Comprehensive market data to fuel your enterprise

Generate more value from data across the enterprise with access to the most comprehensive real-time market data available. A consolidated feed from 35 million instruments provides sophisticated normalized data, streamlining analysis and decisions from front office to operations. And with flexible delivery options including cloud and API, timely accurate data enables the enterprise to capture opportunities, evaluate risk and ensure compliance in fast-moving markets.

Bloomberg’s solutions are integrated into one seamless workflow and are suitable for clients on the buy-side and sell-side.

B-PIPE enables global connectivity

The Bloomberg Market Data Feed (B-PIPE) enables global connectivity to consolidated, normalized market data in real time. Built for the front office and designed for simplicity of use, B-PIPE provides complete coverage of all the same asset classes as the Bloomberg Terminal. The resulting real-time data, along with streaming delayed data, can nourish a wide array of Bloomberg applications, as well as third-party, internal proprietary, and non-display (black box) applications, for increased efficiency throughout the front office.

Cloud data delivery

Bloomberg supports customers with flexible delivery options and efficient access to data — including delivery directly in the cloud — enabling clients to focus on analysis and decision-making. High-performance access to B-PIPE enables firms to generate more value from their data across the enterprise.

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Market Data in the Cloud

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Comprehensive and consolidated coverage

Consolidated access
Access to 35 million instruments across all asset classes, aggregated from 330+ exchanges and 5,000+ contributors, as well as Bloomberg composite tickers and market indices.

Rapid access to local and global market data
All real-time market data is available without conflation from Bloomberg’s global ticker plants, with additional local ticker plant installations in all major financial hubs around the world to serve customers with lower latency access to the same data. Streaming delayed data is also available.

Key reference data
Provides key reference data to describe instruments, such as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) and other key characteristics.

Comprehensive market-depth data
Comprehensive data for buy and sell orders or quotes across multiple markets in a well-described, normalized convention means support for multiple order and/or quote books, and multiple levels of exchange entitlements across these books.

End-of-day reference prices
Access to normalized, end-of-day reference prices for all exchange-traded securities and some exchange indices, complementing other possible choices for suitable end-of-day reference pricing. Sophisticated Bloomberg algorithms help firms determine which prices to use.

Sophisticated data normalization and intelligence

Intelligent normalization
Receive granular information on each trading venue and/or a normalized view of that trading venue.

Current status of tradable securities
Utilize exchange-specific notations for describing the distinct statuses of a security, complemented by Bloomberg normalized and rationalized descriptions through our latest Security Status 2.0 business logic. Users enjoy the best of both worlds – granular distinctions between each market, and an overall rationalization and normalization of these statuses.

Comprehension of trade types
Access exchange-specific notations for describing types of executions, in addition to a proprietary Bloomberg Standard Condition Code (trade type) and the new Market Model Typology standard maintained by the FIX Trading Community, which will soon encapsulate the mandatory trade flags stipulated by the MiFID II regulations in Europe.

Keep apprised of tick size trading rules
Provides support for both static tick sizes and dynamic tick size tables across most major trading venues to avoid the risk of a missed trading opportunity.

Superior access control
The Entitlements Management and Reporting System (EMRS) empowers firms to supervise entitlements for individual users, user groups, applications and publishing services. Firms can authenticate and authorize every end-user and server-based application for every source of enterprise data, whether real-time market data from Bloomberg or proprietary internal data. EMRS makes it convenient to report data usage to exchanges, as well as allocate costs to actual users.

Unparalleled premium content

Access to the Bloomberg Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP), which is widely perceived as the industry benchmark for VWAP calculations.

The Bloomberg Generic Price (BGN) is Bloomberg’s market consensus price for corporate and government bonds, calculated by using prices contributed to Bloomberg.

The Bloomberg Composite Rate (CMP), Bloomberg’s “best market” calculation for bank indications for bid and ask rates, is available. Three time frames are represented: CMPT (Tokyo), CMPL (London) and CMPN (New York).