Bloomberg Transaction Cost Analysis (BTCA) is a multi-asset, transaction cost analysis tool that combines your trades with the extraordinary breadth and transparency of Bloomberg’s market data to deliver powerful analysis against a wide range of benchmarks. Featuring exception-based workflow and customizable reporting, it empowers you to get informative analysis on demand.

Multi-asset class coverage

Prove best execution across fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, crypto, listed and OTC derivatives, using Bloomberg’s range of pricing data.

Data throughout the lifecycle

View TCA across the full lifecycle of the trade, from pre-trade through Bloomberg’s Electronic Trading solutions all the way to post-trade reporting.

Compliance tailored to your needs

Achieve robust and comprehensive trade surveillance utilizing the flexible rules engine that can be configured to identify and manage a wide variety of compliance scenarios.

Features


Front office

Whether on the buy-side or sell-side, you can verify execution quality across an exhaustive list of benchmarks to evaluate your methods of execution from high-touch to more complex algorithmic trading. BTCA provides the flexibility to start from a high-level view of trading activity, drilling down into transactional data.

Best execution

Whether global firms are adopting Best Execution frameworks or supporting regulations such as MiFID II, FINRA 5310, among others, BTCA has you covered. BTCA assists in regulatory compliance or fiduciary responsibilities, to provide transparency to demonstrate efficiency in specific strategies.

Compliance

Exception-based workflow provides fully automated surveillance of trading activity across asset classes. BTCA provides an operational framework to support the four critical steps of identification, investigation, determination, and analysis, delivering comprehensive market abuse, suspicious transaction and unusual behavior monitoring.

Data science

Analyze your TCA data in your own cloud environment via a variety of programming languages including Python through the Bloomberg API. Furthermore, your data is accessible through the Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) and integration into 3rd Party Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI.

Ease of integration

BTCA provides the common architecture for data ingestion whether you use Bloomberg’s electronic trading solutions or leveraging an alternative third-party execution management system (EMS) or an order management system (OMS).

Front office

Whether on the buy-side or sell-side, you can verify execution quality across an exhaustive list of benchmarks to evaluate your methods of execution from high-touch to more complex algorithmic trading. BTCA provides the flexibility to start from a high-level view of trading activity, drilling down into transactional data.

Asset Class Coverage


Fixed Income & FX

Equities

Listed derivatives

OTC derivatives

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