Instant Bloomberg goes beyond chat
Instant Bloomberg (IB) is at the center of the Bloomberg Terminal experience. Users from all over the financial world use it to exchange ideas, research, trade inquiries, pricing, indications of interest, client insights, news, data and more.
Bloomberg offers additional services that enable you to integrate your IBs with certain client workflow tools, helping support seamless collaboration with colleagues.
Connect with the financial markets
With IB, you have access to a large network of global financial professionals. Your contacts are a click away, right in your workflow.
Streamline communication
Capture security details, metadata and intent with natural language processing, bringing structure to your unstructured chat content with no extra steps.
Reduce errors with integration
Bloomberg enables users to integrate IB-related workflows with other designated client systems, helping users gain time-saving efficiencies.
Monitor with confidence
Take control of your firm’s inbound and outbound IBs with customizable surveillance and security. Seamlessly monitor Bloomberg IB in real-time with preventative controls.
Key features of IB
IB’s interface is built to feel intuitive the first time you use it — but there are robust features hiding just under the surface. Here are a few of the tools that can make conversations even more effective.
Manage a high volume of chats
Create persistent chat rooms, tabs, and folders to organize your many chats.
Kick off multiple chats in one click
Open the Blast menu to send a message to each of the selected IB recipients across chat rooms, folders, and tabs.
Search for anything
Find key information quickly with this search icon, or even CTRL + F inside a chat.
Structure inquiries and responses
In IB, you can send more than just text. Structured data links to other Bloomberg Terminal service functionalities, eases supported downstream data integration and allows chat recipients to respond with one click.
Streamline complex conversations
Hovering over a message will let you create a new reply, forward the contents, or even copy the message to your clipboard.
Enhance the conversation
Get a colleague’s attention with @mentions, or leverage the actions menu to add an emoji, create and share a screenshot on the fly, ring the bell, and more.
Level up your firm’s IB functionality
IB is already a robust tool, but more functionalities are available. API add-ons help you integrate IB with certain client applications.
API Add-ons
IB Intra-Firm Chatbots
Bring useful data into IB chats with chatbots that retrieve financial insights on demand and send notifications based on custom triggers.
API Add-ons
IB Connect on Demand
Right-click on message content in IB and send it to a designated client application. You can seamlessly receive relevant insights back to determine your next step.
API Add-ons
IB Connect Chat Initiation
Seamlessly push content into your IB composition window from a designated client application and send it via IB.
API Add-ons
Sales Trader Workflow
Connect client inquiries to a seamless internal workflow between salespeople, traders, and even order management and execution systems.
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