Reference Data

Bloomberg Reference Data is powered by the largest database available to the market. With information for more than six million instruments, sophisticated analytical functionality and the ability to calculate custom returns based on client-specific inputs (overrides), Reference Data gives you a real competitive advantage.

Data License

Bloomberg® Data License gives you enterprise-wide access to one of the world's largest, most accurate databases. Intra-day and end-of-day market and reference data is available for all asset classes and includes corporate actions, credit and issuer data on more than six million securities traded around the world. The world's leading investment banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge fund managers, custodians and fund administrators rely on our data to feed their critical front-, middle- and back-office applications, and you can too. Customers have a choice in selecting their appropriate delivery technology – web services, FTP, XML, csv.

Data License Benefits:
  • Feed accounting, portfolio management and compliance systems via consistent single-data source
  • Consolidate global securities feed into risk applications
  • Measure exposure to an issuer across multi-asset classes
  • Automate trade settlement
  • Track factors/floaters/prepayment projections

Data Management Tools

The Data License Transformer is a tool that helps Bloomberg Data License clients with the integration of Bloomberg data. It can map data, fields, and securities from Bloomberg terminology to client-specified representations. The application is completely customizable and its output files can be processed with minimal changes to user programs. It also contains a database loader, providing an end-to-end solution.