MiFID II Solutions for Buy-Side Research Management

MiFID II carries a massive impact for the future of research. The urgent need for heightened transparency and compliance under MiFID calls for a comprehensive research platform that integrates seamlessly into the research workflow. Bloomberg offers a single platform that allows the buy side to access, manage and value both their broker interactions and internal research to gain greater transparency and operational efficiency — all while making MiFID II compliance simpler.

Our MiFID II solution for buy side research is a multi-tiered set of tools designed for every step of the research process.

How we help our clients

Our research analytics screen provides asset managers with a comprehensive analytics and reporting platform to track quantity and quality of research consumption (on the Terminal at BRES <GO>).

Key benefits for you:

• Monitor interactions from broker feeds
• Capture your firm’s interactions on the Terminal and mobile or via Microsoft Outlook
• Track and evaluate consumption of research at firm level, group level or by individual users

Appropriate access to research is a vital concern now more than ever under MiFID II. Our entitlements tool gives buy-side administrators the ability to control the research that their users can access and request to guard against unsolicited research (on the Terminal at ENTC <GO>).

Key benefits for you:

• Easily discover research providers so you can modify privileging
• Manage access within user communities to allow for more uniform entitlements
• Quickly identify and disable unsolicited research

Bloomberg’s dedicated broker vote tool allows investment professionals to review the quality of broker services, along with detailed research consumption statistics, so they can intelligently submit broker votes (on the Terminal at BVOT <GO>).

Key benefits for you:

• Access detailed rankings of analysts & research providers
• Cast your vote, post feedback and attribute your votes to specific sectors, services, analysts or salespeople.

Bloomberg’s research valuation tool allows you to easily create a valuation scorecard, intelligently manage research budgets and track overall research consumption (on the Terminal at RVAL <GO>).

Key benefits for you:

• Manage the research vote process to evaluate broker quality
• Create broker scorecards in order to make better informed decisions on where to spend your research budget
• Analyze voting results and generate reports so you can provide rigorous feedback to brokers based on results

Our research management screen provides buy-side firms with a portal to manage and display internal content, integrating your entire firm’s research in one location for easy access, communication and collaboration (on the Terminal at RMN <GO>).

• Create a dedicated research portal to access your firm’s content
• Customize the page so you can quickly find what you’re looking for
• Create custom reports for easy sharing and collaboration