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Bloomberg Code Crunch Japan Report

Our annual Code Crunch initiative brings together leading financial firms to build powerful applications with BQuant Enterprise. This report surveys October 2024’s Code Crunch Japan, where participants took on real financial-market challenges, and developed applications to transform complex financial data into intuitive visual tools.

Examples include stock returns forecasting, using LLM-generated market commentary to identify and analyze similar past market conditions.

Key report highlights:

  • Practical BQuant Enterprise applications developed by financial institutions
  • Advanced analytical methods utilizing natural language processing (NLP)
  • Creating easy-to-understand visualizations from complex financial data

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Note: BQuant Hackathon has now been renamed to Bloomberg’s Code Crunch since 2025.

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