Introducing Bloomberg’s New Quant Platform for Sell-Side – Bquant
Bloomberg has released a new product aimed specifically at the quant community. Quants and python proficient employees can now build their own applications within Bloomberg using our full financial data library. These bespoke applications can then be seamlessly shared with front office colleagues in Sales and Trading, fully integrating into their Bloomberg desktop view.
BQuant Desktop is a Jupyter Notebook Python coding environment combined with Bloomberg’s high-quality multi-asset-class financial data and advanced calculation services, providing programmatic access to a vast library of more than 17,000 data items. It is a turnkey solution available through a standard Bloomberg Terminal subscription, designed to enhance the entire quant workflow — from building applications and back testing datasets not currently available on internal platforms, to creating relative value and visualization tools, and seamlessly publishing projects as Bloomberg Launchpad applications. The sharing can be done instantly via the platform, a Bloomberg MSG or IB instant chat, without the end user seeing the code.
Agenda:
BQuant Desktop is a Jupyter Notebook Python coding environment combined with Bloomberg’s high-quality multi-asset-class financial data and advanced calculation services, providing programmatic access to a vast library of more than 17,000 data items. It is a turnkey solution available through a standard Bloomberg Terminal subscription, designed to enhance the entire quant workflow — from building applications and back testing datasets not currently available on internal platforms, to creating relative value and visualization tools, and seamlessly publishing projects as Bloomberg Launchpad applications. The sharing can be done instantly via the platform, a Bloomberg MSG or IB instant chat, without the end user seeing the code.
Agenda:
- Introduction - why we have built this platform
- Demonstration - overview of BQuant Platform, real use case examples and sample projects / applications
- Next Steps - how to get enabled, how to share and build a community of users at your bank
Speakers
Anish Popat
Quantitative Finance Specialist Sales
Bloomberg
Anish joined Bloomberg last year from Brevan Howard, where he was a global macro portfolio manager for 6 years. Prior to that, he was an FX portfolio manager at Tudor. He began his career as a European rates trader at UBS.