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 terminal. By consolidating chart access, CHRT streamlines workflow and reduces manual navigation. Bloomberg encourages users to explore additional Pro Tips for deeper terminal mastery.
Bridging Compliance and Cybersecurity in Financial Reporting in 2026
The SEC is drafting rules that will require public companies to disclose their cybersecurity controls as part of regular financial reporting. This links cyber risk directly to compliance, forcing firms to treat security as a core reporting element. The article...
Satellite Quantum-Internet to Reach $1.82B in 2026 with 32.9% CAGR
A new ResearchAndMarkets.com report projects the satellite quantum‑internet market to reach $1.82 billion in 2026, up from $1.37 billion in 2025, representing a 32.9% compound annual growth rate. The market is expected to expand to $5.63 billion by 2030 with a sustained 32.6%...
Where to Trade Commodities and Stocks Onchain
The blog highlights Hyperliquid as the primary hub for on‑chain commodity and stock trading, thanks to its HIP‑3 upgrade that lets third parties launch permission‑less perpetual markets. HIP‑3 now accounts for roughly 8.1% of Hyperliquid’s open interest, attracting deployers like...
Would You Trust Amazon with Your QuickBooks?
Amazon has launched an embedded QuickBooks Online app inside Seller Central, fulfilling a promise made last year. The multi‑year partnership with Intuit lets sellers import financial data, view profit‑and‑loss trends, and monitor inventory across channels, with a three‑month free trial...
TradeXYZ Volume and Open Interest Hit All-Time Highs
TradeXYZ, Hyperliquid’s tokenized equity platform, recorded a record $1 billion in 24‑hour trading volume, while open interest climbed to $790 million, a 200 percent rise month‑over‑month. The surge follows the November “growth mode” upgrade that cut fees by over 90 percent, propelling daily volumes...
The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results From Pakistan?
The Financial Action Task Force will meet in February 2026 to reassess Pakistan after its 2022 removal from the grey list. While Pakistan has introduced anti‑money‑laundering laws and institutional reforms, open‑source evidence shows terrorist groups like Jaish‑e‑Mohammad and Lashkar‑e‑Taiba still...
Facial Recognition Payments Gain Traction in South Korea
South Korea’s facial recognition payment ecosystem is expanding rapidly, driven by AI and 3D imaging technologies. Viva Republica’s Facepay has surpassed one million users and is now supported by 240,000 merchants since its September debut. Naver Financial’s competing solution reports...
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...
Apple Faces £1.5bn U.K. Class Action over Apple Pay Fees
Apple is confronting a £1.5 billion class‑action lawsuit in the United Kingdom alleging that its Apple Pay mobile‑wallet imposes hidden fees that banks have shifted onto roughly 50 million consumers. The claim, brought by financial campaigner James Daley, accuses Apple of stifling competition...
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,...
Kansas Lawmakers Propose State-Run Bitcoin and Digital Assets Reserve Fund
Kansas Senate Bill 352 would create a state‑run Bitcoin and Digital Assets Reserve Fund, allowing the treasurer to claim unclaimed crypto assets and credit 10% of each deposit to the general fund while keeping the principal separate. The bill updates...
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...
Quantum Trading Achieves 34% Accuracy Increase, Applications Expand Says WEF
Quantum‑enabled algorithmic trading debuted at the World Economic Forum, delivering a 34% boost in forecasting accuracy. The breakthrough marks the first practical quantum deployment in finance, moving the technology from theory to market. Organizers highlighted the potential to overhaul risk...
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 Can You Forecast Cash Flow Accurately Without Living in Spreadsheets?
The episode explains why traditional spreadsheets are inadequate for cash‑flow forecasting and outlines a shift to automated, data‑driven processes. It emphasizes using real payment history and driver‑based metrics—like AR timing, AP flexibility, payroll, and seasonality—to generate forecasts that signal shortfalls...
Premium Investor Report #498
The Premium Investor Report #498 warns of heightened market volatility as former President Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, potentially stirring a sell‑off in the S&P 500. Technical analysis shows a broken rising wedge on the S&P with...
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...
Earn Yield or Trade Stocks and Metals on Manifest
Manifest is a Solana‑native DeFi platform that runs an on‑chain central limit order book and charges zero trading fees. It offers two primary products: Destiny Vaults, where users deposit stablecoins like CASH or PYUSD to earn up to 38% APY...
Subscriber Update on Block Inc. 2032s
The episode breaks down Block, Inc.'s latest credit outlook, highlighting a dramatic shift from a shaky to a durable balance sheet and a clear path to achieving the Rule of 40 by 2026. Q3 2025 results show 18% YoY gross...
Banks Push Back as Stablecoin Yields Threaten Deposit Flows
Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan warned that stablecoins offering interest could trigger up to $6 trillion—about a third of U.S. commercial bank deposits—to flee traditional banks. The prospect of 4% on‑chain yields versus sub‑1% savings rates would force banks to...
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,...
Bitcoin Rips as ETF Flows Flip Bullish
Bitcoin surged toward $98,000 as spot and futures ETFs recorded a net inflow of $1.71 billion this week, reversing the prior week’s $681 million outflow. The inflows extended to ETH, SOL and XRP ETFs, pushing the Crypto Fear & Greed Index up...
Senate Delays Key Crypto Bill Markup
The Senate Banking Committee’s long‑awaited markup of the crypto market‑structure bill was postponed just hours before it was set to begin, leaving the legislation without a new date. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong withdrew his support, warning that the draft could...
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...
Slow Dopa
Scott Galloway warns that the "buy now, pay later" boom reflects a broader cultural addiction to instant dopamine hits, especially among young men. He argues that male brains mature later, leaving them vulnerable to impulsive tech, gambling, and finance products....
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...
Net Interest 2025 Year in Review
The 2025 Net Interest year‑in‑review recaps 46 posts and 15 interviews, highlighting AI’s expanding role in capital markets, the surge in private equity and credit, and the growing influence of retail investors who now account for about 21% of US...
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...
Why ‘Buy the Dip’ Keeps Working Even When Everyone Says the Economy Is Terrible
The episode argues that "buy the dip" remains a reliable strategy because the Federal Reserve and government consistently intervene to support markets, making prolonged bear markets unlikely. It cites historical investing wisdom, recent data on strong retail inflows into S&P 500...
Special Invitation for Pomp Letter Subscribers to Bitcoin Investor Week
The episode announces Bitcoin Investor Week, a February event in New York gathering top investors, CEOs, and policymakers to discuss Bitcoin’s growing role in institutional finance, corporate balance sheets, and personal portfolios. It emphasizes that despite volatility, institutional inflows and...
Stockpicker’s Paradise
The episode reflects on the rise, fall, and resurgence of specialist financial-sector investing, recounting the host’s hedge fund closure after a decade of long/short bets across global banks and fintechs. It highlights how recent market conditions have revived outsized returns...
Top Tracking Issues We Help Our Clients With
NP Digital outlines the most common data‑tracking failures that undermine marketing ROI, from biased attribution and GA4 revenue gaps to consent‑management lapses and fragmented cross‑device IDs. The firm recommends a systematic audit, unified taxonomy, and integration of GA4 with a...