Meet ASKB: Bloomberg Introduces Agentic AI to the Bloomberg Terminal

New conversational AI interface transforms how financial professionals discover, analyze, and act on market intelligence

Bloomberg today introduced ASKB, a powerful new conversational AI interface, now in beta, that redefines how financial professionals interact with the Bloomberg Terminal®. Purpose-built for investment research, ASKB brings agentic AI directly into the Terminal – helping investors accelerate discovery, streamline analysis, and generate insights with greater speed and confidence.

Built on Bloomberg’s long-standing leadership in artificial intelligence for finance, ASKB is designed to help clients unlock even more value from their Bloomberg Anywhere (BBA) subscriptions by unifying research workflows into a faster, more intuitive experience.

Conversational AI Purpose-Built for Investment Research

With ASKB, equity analysts, portfolio managers, and investment professionals can use everyday language to access Bloomberg’s vast universe of:

• Structured market and reference data
• Company filings and corporate documents
• Global news coverage
• Sell-side and independent research
• Bloomberg Intelligence, BloombergNEF, and Bloomberg Economics insights
• Proprietary Bloomberg analytics

By reducing friction and delivering transparent source attribution, ASKB helps users uncover deeper connections and move efficiently from question to insight – supporting faster, more informed investment decisions.

“ASKB represents a revolutionary new mode of interaction with the Bloomberg Terminal that will enable our customers to tap into the full power and context of Bloomberg’s trusted data and analytics,” said Shawn Edwards, Chief Technology Officer at Bloomberg. “This agentic AI system enables users to ask detailed questions in conversational language and receive comprehensive answers synthesized from Bloomberg’s trusted data, documents, news, research, and analytics. Feedback from beta clients shows ASKB is driving efficiency, improving discovery, and helping users surface actionable insights faster.”

Bringing Agentic AI to the Bloomberg Terminal

ASKB operates through a coordinated network of AI agents that work in parallel to analyze Bloomberg’s extensive data and content universe. These agents dynamically retrieve, interpret, and synthesize information to deliver contextual, verifiable answers about global markets, companies, and investment strategies.

When responses include data analysis, ASKB provides the underlying Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) code, enabling users to seamlessly extend their analysis in Microsoft® Excel®, BQuant Desktop, or BQuant Enterprise.

Broad Data Coverage Across Asset Classes

ASKB provides coverage across all asset classes and supports a wide range of research and analytical use cases. Its AI agents simultaneously draw from Bloomberg’s premium content library, including:

• Hundreds of millions of company documents
• Bloomberg News coverage, including approximately 5,000 original stories and more than 1.1 million curated news stories daily
• Sell-side and independent research from over 800 providers, including the world’s leading global banks
• Research from Bloomberg Intelligence, BloombergNEF, and Bloomberg Economics covering thousands of companies, industries, and macroeconomic forecasts

How ASKB Transforms Investor Workflows

Traditional financial research often requires navigating multiple screens and manually synthesizing data from disparate sources.

ASKB transforms this process by consolidating discovery and analysis into a single conversational interface.

Instead of switching between functions and screens, users can describe their research objective in natural language. ASKB’s AI agents perform the discovery across Bloomberg’s content universe and deliver a contextual synthesis – helping investors keep pace with increasingly complex and fast-moving markets.

ASKB Workflows: Automating Multi-Step Research & Analysis

ASKB extends beyond conversational Q&A to accelerate repetitive research processes through ASKB Workflows.

Financial professionals can describe structured, multi-step analytical tasks such as:

• Pre-earnings preparation
• Post-earnings performance analysis
• Client or management meeting preparation

ASKB assembles relevant data, news, research, and analytics into structured outputs within minutes.

Users can:

• Define objectives, output structure, and tone
• Save workflows as reusable templates in a personal Workflow Library
• Re-run workflows across companies, time periods, or parameters
• Share workflows across teams within their firm

ASKB Workflows provide scalable consistency while allowing customization as research methodologies evolve.

Key Features of ASKB

• Conversational AI – Ask and refine questions in natural language
• ASKB Workflows – Standardize multi-step research tasks with reusable templates tailored to individual methodologies
• Breadth of Coverage – Simultaneously explore documents, news, cross-asset and alternative datasets, and analytics
• Data Visualization – Generate charts and tables with contextual annotations
• Deeper Data Analysis – Automatically generate BQL code for extended analysis in Excel or BQuant
• Collaboration – Connect via Instant Bloomberg (IB) with analysts behind relevant research
• Expanded Document Analysis – Users can generate more comprehensive insights by uploading their own documents (e.g., PDF, Word, etc.) to ASKB so they can be analyzed alongside Bloomberg’s trusted data and content
• Integrated Help – Learn about relevant Bloomberg Terminal functionality in context
• Mobile Access – Access ASKB and your Workflow Library via the Bloomberg Professional® app on supported Apple and Android devices, including Apple Vision ProThis news is available in Portuguese and Spanish.