Bloomberg Professional

Overview

To stay on top of the game in foreign exchange you need to make the right trading, hedging, and investment decisions, quickly. Get a competitive edge by harnessing the core power of Bloomberg – class-leading data, analytics and tools – for your Foreign Exchange business. Bloomberg is the only solution that encompasses all the analytics, modeling and execution capabilities you need to run your foreign exchange business in a single, integrated desktop.

You’ll find a full suite of foreign exchange functionality, from global news to data, analytics, electronic trading and position keeping, price discovery and trade negotiation to electronic trading and back-office documentation. And execution is completely cost-free to both the buy-side and the sell-side.

Foreign exchange data powered by:

• Over 180 different currencies
• 740 distinct organizations supplying foreign exchange data and prices
• 74,170 actively priced composite objects
• Only complete commission-free execution service

Foreign exchange information

A large data stream is essential but you want the ability to quickly focus on the currencies and data that matter to you. Powerful analytics and market moving news with analyst coverage and technical commentary are linked seamlessly into one comprehensive page for your convenience so that you can see your relevant information immediately.

Buy-side or sell-side, corporate treasurer, trader, or portfolio manager, Bloomberg delivers the full set of tools for you to run your foreign exchange business. And you can access information from every other financial market, all from one desktop solution.

Market data

Foreign exchange market data flows 24 hours a day in real-time. And Bloomberg keeps you updated around the clock, so you always know where the markets are trading. Our foreign exchange news team is at work covering markets in 135 countries.

You get:

• Real-time market-accurate pricing for Spot, forward, NDF, option volatilities (including risk reversals and butterflies)
• Calculations for realized volatility, skewness and kurtosis
• Foreign exchange forecasts from over 50 major institutions
• Foreign exchange fixing prices published every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day

It’s comprehensive data that you can really work with. You can even export it into Excel, automatically. The Bloomberg Excel Add-In delivers market, historical, and reference data and analytics right into an Excel spreadsheet. Our Import Data wizard lets you fine-tune the incoming information to your precise needs, and automate its delivery. From there, it’s up to you.

Foreign exchange Analytics

You need to make the right trading, hedging, and investment decisions. That’s why Bloomberg doesn’t just bring you data; we back it up with best-in-class analytics. You can slice and dice the foreign exchange markets in any direction you wish. The knowledge behind the numbers lets you make better-informed decisions.

Bloomberg analytics include:

• Forward and covered-interest arbitrage calculators
• Currency return rankings
• Historical volatility analysis
• Options pricing, structuring, and risk management
• Realized/implied volatility comparisons
• Term structure analysis
• Technical Analysis/Charting

No-commission foreign exchange electronic trading

Whether you’re buy-side or sell-side, your trades are completely commission free on Bloomberg. Trade in spot, forwards, NDFs, options or deposits easily, with our powerful foreign exchange tools. And you can find liquidity in any currency pair or tenor, with access to over 120 global and regional providers. It’s a unique value proposition that works.

Bloomberg foreign exchange Electronic Trading features:

• Commission-free for both buy-side and sell-side
• Spot, Outrights, Swaps, NDFs, Options, Deposits, Precious Metals
• Streaming, RFQ, Conversational Dealing, Batch Trades, Voice Trade Capture, Orders Full STP for streamlined post-trade handling