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* Bloomberg Chat * It is a well accepted reference. You will often see a screenshot of a bloomberg terminal as "proof" of something
by tezza 10y ago
* Bloomberg Chat
* It is a well accepted reference. You will often see a screenshot of a bloomberg terminal as "proof" of something
- afeezaziz 10y agoVoting up on the Bloomberg Chat. Most of the people in Finance do not really use other functions but due to network effects, most people get 'connected' via Bloomberg Chat.
- peteretep 10y agoPlease explain what Bloomberg chat is, and how you find people via it.
- gaius 10y agoIt's like MSN Messenger or AOL, except that the identities of people on it are guaranteed, and things said on it are effectively contracts. Reuters operate a similar system. There are others too but no-one uses them.
- empath75 10y agoWeirdly, AOL has a bunch of clients on wall street that pay for AIM corporate accounts.
- gaius 10y agoI know, when the company I worked for in the 90's IPO'd in the dotcom boom, we would talk to our broker over just regular AIM. Nowadays that just seems crazy...
- peteretep 10y agoFriends in London finance said that for them, most business was done over Yahoo Messenger. Crazy world!
- gaius 10y agoYahoo is weirdly popular in the energy sector
- sseveran 10y agoIs used to be. Yahoo altered the logging functionality such that it would not meet compliance standards. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-yahoo-idUSKCN10J0SO http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-yahoo-idUSKCN1...
- danpalmer 10y agoCan you expand? Are identities checked and referenced, or enforced socially like on LinkedIn? When you say things are effectively contracts, I've heard about the very solid principles that some finance people work to - "if we said it then we will stand by it" sort of things - or does Bloomberg step in to arbitrate, or are chats accessible by the employing companies, how are contracts enforced?
- gaius 10y agoThey are "checked" in the sense that ultimately there's a name associated with that expensive login. All chats are logged and available to compliance, regulators, etc. Bloomberg won't arbitrate but they don't have to - everyone knows that if you welshed on a deal, no-one would ever deal with you again. This is the same way that voice calls in banks work too.
- dirtbox 10y agoI'm amazed this hasn't been exploited.
- gaius 10y agoExploited in what way?
- dirtbox 10y agoEntered the network, manipulated data, created misinformation, use social engineering tricks and tried to control stock pricing. When you have a platform only accessible to the elite, it makes the possibilities extremely tempting.
- gaius 10y agoYou would have more luck impersonating voices on the phone!
- kevinpet 10y ago
- kanwisher 10y agoConfirmed. Worked on Thomson Reuters chat, which is FREE for anyone with an email address at a bank or financial institution, and we could not crack the hold that IB(Instant Bloomberg) had.
- gaius 10y agoI also worked for Reuters tho' not on chat and for many of us it was very obvious why we kept losing to Bloomberg. Reuters would send its sales people into a bank's IT department and say things like "our product uses standard TCP/IP networking!". Bloomberg would go into the front office and say "here are some ways you can make more money!".