Reference Data
Data for decisions
Firms all over the world use Bloomberg’s robust Reference Data offering to feed their operational workflows and inform decision making across the front, middle and back office. Bloomberg’s Reference Data encompasses timely and accurate terms and conditions, legal entity, corporate actions, classifications, holdings and ownership data.
Breadth and depth
We provide more than 200 billion pieces of financial data daily, including 13 million instruments, 6.5 million entities with a model large enough to hold over 8,500 reference data fields.
Best in class
Our high-quality data and advanced analytics has positioned us as an industry leader in reference data for financial markets.
Standardized and accessible
Identifications, fields, metadata and date values increase efficiencies to integrate our content across front, middle and operational workflows.
Products
Our Reference Data offering can be fully integrated with Bloomberg’s research, ESG, pricing, regulatory and risk offerings.
Terms and Conditions
Our Terms and Conditions Data solves crucial workflow challenges, including security identification and creation, trade execution, risk management and settlement.
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We deliver accurate and timely security master data across a range of asset classes such as equities, fixed income, listed derivatives and more.
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Security identifiers enable clients to easily connect instruments to issuers.
Legal Entity
Our Legal Entity Data provides critical entity-level information and gives subscribers a better understanding of credit, counterparty risk and geographic exposure.
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Build out and enrich proprietary entity databases and better understand entity relationships with Bloomberg data by leveraging industry-standard identifiers such as legal entity identifiers, registry and tax identifiers.
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Bloomberg’s Corporate and Capital Structure products support company relationships, corporate and capital hierarchies to perform top-down and bottom-up analyses with ease by seamlessly integrating issuer and security data.
Corporate Actions
Bloomberg’s global coverage includes more than 50 event types across asset classes, populated from thousands of daily sources resulting in over one million related actions added annually.
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Solve workflow needs from trading strategies and maintaining portfolios to operational workflows.
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Bloomberg uses a combination of technology and specialized global corporate action analysts who “follow the sun” to deliver data promptly and accurately to clients.
Classifications
The Bloomberg Industry Classification Standard (BICS) and the Bloomberg Classification System (BCLASS) support the investment process by organizing legal entities and securities into consistent peer groups according to specific activities and risk categories.
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Bloomberg provides complete asset class coverage and delivers high-quality, consistent segmentation data across trading, risk management and operations.
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Bloomberg also integrates with other industry classifications such as NAICS, NACE and UK SIC.
Exchange and Contributed Pricing
Enhance your reference data with pricing data covering all major asset classes that is accessible on an end-of-day, intraday, snapshot and historical basis.
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Our exchange and contributed pricing data continuously evolves to align with market developments and client workflows.
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We utilize an innovative and transparent methodology in tandem with seamless operational integration and unrivaled customer service.
Simplified access
Easily discover Bloomberg data via our ready-to-use data website, data.bloomberg.com or DATA on the Bloomberg Terminal, and efficiently access data via REST API or natively via all major cloud providers.
Awards
2023 Awards Winner
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