How to Use Pre-Trade Data to Better Target Automation on Rule Builder
Bloomberg’s Rule Builder (RBLD) lets buy‑side firms convert high‑quality pre‑trade data into automated routing and alerting rules for fixed‑income orders. The tool ingests pricing, axes, dealer performance and other signals to prioritize dealers and reduce market impact. A Bloomberg study shows automated trading outperforms manual execution in sovereign and credit markets across the US and Europe. By embedding real‑time intelligence, RBLD helps traders meet best‑execution mandates while scaling without added headcount.
Compliance Fundamentals: Trade Surveillance in Financial Services
Bloomberg’s latest post outlines the fundamentals of trade surveillance, emphasizing its role in detecting insider dealing, spoofing, and other market abuse across asset classes. It details regulatory expectations that mandate scenario‑based alerts, robust audit trails, and periodic risk assessments. The...
AI: Mind the Rhetoric–Reality Gap
Bloomberg Intelligence surveyed 100 senior CIOs and CTOs at leading asset managers and found a stark gap between AI hype and actual spend. While AI dominates boardroom discussions, roughly 70% of firms allocate less than 10% of operating expenses to...
February Global Regulatory Brief: Digital Finance
Recent regulatory developments across major economies highlight growing scrutiny of AI, cybersecurity, and operational resilience in finance. In the UK, the Treasury Committee criticised the FCA and BoE for a reactive stance, urging AI‑specific guidance and stress testing by 2026....
February Global Regulatory Brief: Risk, Capital, and Financial Stability
The February 2026 regulatory brief highlights four major initiatives: the RBI proposes a broader credit‑derivatives framework adding total‑return swaps and index products; MAS seeks tighter liquidity‑risk‑management rules for Singapore fund managers; the ECB releases 17 recommendations to simplify EU banking...
Bloomberg Pro Tips: Fast-Forward Your Credit Research with CRAN
Bloomberg’s latest Pro Tips episode demonstrates how analysts can accelerate issuer credit research using CRAN, the Credit Research Analysis tool on the Bloomberg Terminal. The tutorial walks users through data retrieval, rating analysis, and key financial metrics in minutes. Bloomberg...
Meet ASKB: A First Look at the Future of the Bloomberg Terminal in the Age of Agentic AI
Bloomberg unveiled ASKB, a conversational AI interface now in beta on the Bloomberg Terminal, aiming to accelerate investment research. The agentic system taps Bloomberg’s massive data, news, and research libraries, delivering answers with transparent source attribution and even the underlying...
Building an Effective Surveillance Lexicon Policy
Bloomberg’s February 2026 article outlines how compliance teams can build effective surveillance lexicon policies amid evolving AI and regulatory scrutiny. It defines lexicons, explains their precision and transparency, and highlights challenges such as language drift and false positives. The piece recommends...
Trump Card Cap Adds to Clouds over US Consumer at Big Banks
U.S. banks posted robust Q4 consumer‑loan growth, but all warned that a proposed 10% credit‑card rate cap could restrict credit access and hurt borrowers. JPMorgan’s credit‑card revenue fell short of forecasts by 7.6% and the bank now expects card‑loan growth...
The Agility Advantage: Navigating Growth with a Composable Operating Model
Bloomberg’s Head of IBOR Product Mark Ellis outlines a composable operating model that lets asset managers replace, scale, and evolve technology components without disruptive overhauls. The model leverages Bloomberg’s API‑first, cloud‑native microservices and high‑fidelity data to create a modular stack...
Strong US Earnings, Fed Hold to Counter Weak Dollar Concerns
The Federal Reserve left its policy range at 3.5‑3.75% after a 10‑2 vote on Jan. 28, citing an improving economic outlook. Early S&P 500 earnings reported a 20% jump in aggregate profits, reinforcing the Fed’s view of resilience. Meanwhile, the Bloomberg Dollar...
EU Regulatory Outlook 2026
The EU will accelerate a sweeping regulatory agenda in 2026, focusing on capital‑markets integration, digital resilience, and sustainable finance. Key initiatives include the Savings and Investment Union to mobilise €33 trillion of household savings, expanded ESMA supervision over market infrastructures, and...
Beyond Headwinds: Building Durable Growth in APAC Insurance
APAC insurers are poised for double‑digit growth through 2026, but must navigate heightened geopolitical tensions, rising claim costs from new‑energy vehicles, and an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Bloomberg’s suite—including MARS, PORT, AIM, and RMS—offers end‑to‑end asset‑liability management, scenario testing, and...
Jane Street Enhances ETF Liquidity and Execution Efficiency with Bloomberg RFQe
Jane Street is expanding ETF liquidity and execution efficiency in Asia‑Pacific by leveraging Bloomberg RFQe. The platform uncovers deeper order‑book depth than exchange screens and supports sophisticated NAV and portfolio trades. Automated RFQe workflows deliver sub‑second responses, saving two hours...
Compliance Fundamentals: Communications Surveillance
Bloomberg Vault’s guide outlines how financial firms must move beyond simple record‑keeping to active communications surveillance, monitoring emails, chats, voice and social media for misconduct. Regulators worldwide demand comprehensive capture of business‑related communications and risk‑based supervisory review, penalising off‑channel activity....
Gulf Regulatory Outlook 2026
Regulatory momentum in the Gulf is shifting from rapid framework‑building to concrete execution, as authorities embed recent reforms into supervision, enforcement and market infrastructure. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are loosening foreign‑ownership rules and aligning with IOSCO standards to attract...
Bloomberg Pro Tips: Discover Curated Charts Faster Across Sectors with CHRT
Bloomberg’s latest Pro Tips episode showcases the CHRT tool on the Bloomberg Terminal, a centralized hub for curated charts across sectors, tickers, and portfolios. The feature lets users pull sector‑wide visualizations, apply custom filters, and export charts without leaving the...
Realizing Africa’s Digital Potential
Bloomberg’s Africa Business Summit in Johannesburg underscored the continent’s massive digital upside, driven by a youthful population, abundant critical minerals and rapid AI, fintech and e‑commerce adoption. Executives warned that unreliable power, limited data‑center capacity and fragmented regulation threaten scaling...
Global Risk Management Amid Macro Shocks
Macro‑economic shocks—from U.S. tariffs to rapid interest‑rate swings—have exposed weaknesses in banks' traditional risk frameworks. Linear, historically‑driven models failed to anticipate third‑order effects such as Treasury sell‑offs, prompting a shift toward stochastic and reverse stress testing. Institutions are bolstering intraday...
Beyond the Relationship: How “Human + Data Intelligence” Is Winning the Next Generation of APAC Wealth
Bloomberg’s 2025 Asia Private Wealth Survey shows technology has become the primary growth lever for APAC wealth firms, with 41% of leaders ranking it above relationship factors. A generational shift toward Gen X and Millennial investors is driving demand for real‑time,...
Ten Data Insights Showing the Continued Rise of Climate Risk – and What Investors Should Lookout for in 2026
Bloomberg’s January 2026 analysis spotlights ten data‑driven signals that illustrate the accelerating financial impact of climate risk. A 10‑percentage‑point rise in modeled asset‑damage risk lifts a firm’s weighted‑average cost of capital by roughly 22 basis points, while Europe’s adaptation‑focused green‑bond issuance...
RBC and SILAC Partner with Bloomberg to Set a New Standard for FIA Index Design
RBC Capital Markets and SILAC Insurance teamed with Bloomberg to launch the Bloomberg VERSA 10 (BVERSA10) index, a volatility‑targeted, multi‑asset benchmark for fixed indexed annuities. The index addresses insurers' need for adaptable, low‑volatility benchmarks by targeting 10% volatility and incorporating long/short...
Why Capital Efficiency Is Make-or-Break for Asia’s Insurers
Asia’s insurers are posting strong capital returns—4.8% versus benchmarks—yet face mounting pressures from natural‑catastrophe exposure, volatile markets and a low‑interest‑rate environment. The core challenge is capital efficiency: holding only regulator‑mandated capital while deploying it profitably across the enterprise. Dynamic asset‑liability...
How Automation, TCA and Broker Wheels Work Together in Modern Equity EMS
Bloomberg outlines how its Execution Management System integrates pre‑trade TCA, a rule‑based engine (RBLD), and broker wheels (WHLS) into a closed‑loop workflow. The system scores orders, routes them automatically, and feeds post‑trade BTCA data back to refine rules and allocations....
How ETFs Are Changing Portfolio Construction and Market Access
ETFs are reshaping portfolio construction by offering liquid, transparent access to crypto, commodities and alternative assets. Bitcoin ETFs dominate the $153 billion crypto‑ETF market, while commodity ETFs drew roughly twice the inflows of crypto products in 2025, driven by gold and...
Compliance Fundamentals: Building a Resilient and Intelligent Recordkeeping System
The proliferation of digital collaboration tools and hybrid work has dramatically expanded the venues where regulated business occurs, prompting a wave of SEC enforcement actions that have levied over $700 million in penalties since 2023. Firms now require comprehensive data‑capture solutions...
Optimizing Investment Operations Through Automated Day Routing with RBLD
All Nippon Asset Management (ANAM) upgraded its trading infrastructure by moving to Bloomberg AIM in 2023 and then implementing RBLD for automated day routing. Within four months the firm automated roughly 30% of its thousands of trades across equities, futures,...
Streamlining Disconnected Data and Inefficient Workflows
Banks are struggling with fragmented ALM and ALCO data, forcing manual reconciliations that delay decision‑making and increase compliance risk. The article highlights how siloed datasets, disparate subsidiary systems, and bolt‑on tools hinder net interest margin management and regulatory reporting. It...
Buy-Side Programmatic Research Infrastructure and Tooling
Buy‑side firms are rapidly centralizing programmatic research infrastructure to handle expanding data volumes and increasingly complex investment workflows. A recent survey of 66 professionals across the US, UK and Europe shows 44% view reducing platform complexity and cost as the...
Macro Shocks Prompt Reset in APAC Risk Management
Increasing macroeconomic volatility—driven by geopolitical tension, trade disruptions, and interest‑rate swings—is exposing weaknesses in APAC banks' legacy risk frameworks. A new report, co‑produced with Regulation Asia, shows that traditional linear models can no longer capture the speed and magnitude of...
Compliance Fundamentals: Capture, Archival, and Recordkeeping
The post outlines the fundamentals of data capture, archival, and recordkeeping for financial services, emphasizing that regulators require firms to maintain tamper‑evident, multi‑year records of transactions and communications. It details the types of data—transaction details, emails, chats, voice, and metadata—that...
Managing Bank Risk in a Fragmented Regulatory Environment
Bloomberg highlights how banks must grapple with fragmented Basel III and FRTB implementations that vary by jurisdiction and timeline. Divergent rules cause duplicated capital calculations, especially where U.S. stress‑testing overlaps with standardized models. Bloomberg’s MARS platform and FRTB Data Solution centralize...
Asia-Pacific Insurance 2026 Outlook
Asia‑Pacific insurers enter 2026 with earnings momentum and capital strength that outpace regional benchmarks, buoyed by strong investment returns and disciplined underwriting. Life insurers are projected to achieve double‑digit new‑business‑value growth, while property‑and‑casualty firms benefit from pricing power and declining...
$41 Trillion Credit Market: How Is Private Credit Reshaping the Landscape?
At SuperReturn Europe, Mark Phillips, Global Head of Private Credit, highlighted the $41 trillion addressable credit market and argued that private credit could replace up to 15 % of traditional financing. He explained how data analytics and artificial intelligence are reshaping underwriting,...
What Type of Data Is Needed to Find Opportunities
Investment managers are turning to alternative and unstructured data, combined with scalable AI and agentic workflows, to generate uncorrelated alpha in a volatile market. Bloomberg’s Enterprise Tech & Data Summit highlighted how firms aim to increase data vendors, accelerate idea‑to‑production...
Bloomberg Pro Tips: Visualize Company Trends with GF
Bloomberg’s latest Pro Tips video demonstrates how the GF function on the Bloomberg Terminal lets users graph segment data, key performance indicators, and fundamentals in a fully customizable view. The tool also supports building bespoke spreads and ratios, enabling deeper...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Digital Finance
In December 2025, regulators across the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia unveiled coordinated steps to shape digital finance. The FCA emphasized that AI advances must be paired with human judgement and announced a forthcoming consultation on transaction reporting. Singapore’s MAS...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Green Finance
In December 2025 regulators across four jurisdictions unveiled major green‑finance initiatives. South Africa’s Treasury proposed classifying carbon credits as unlisted securities and linking its registry to the UN‑Article 6 framework to scale the domestic market. The European Commission introduced a streamlined...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Risk, Capital and Financial Stability
The December Global Regulatory Brief highlights four major developments: the UK PRA confirmed Basel 3.1 market‑risk rules will take effect in January 2027 with the Internal Model Approach delayed to January 2028; Australia’s APRA announced a phased removal of Additional Tier 1 capital instruments...
December Global Regulatory Brief: Trading and Markets
The EU Commission unveiled a sweeping market‑integration package that revamps MiFID‑R, UCITS, EMIR and other rules, introducing a pan‑European market operator and expanding ESMA’s supervisory remit. In the United States, SEC Chair Paul Atkins announced a reform agenda to scale...