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Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by Nextgrid on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:46PM (#23902683)
Are there certain requirements to get an account beyond just having 25k/year to pay for it? Let's say I wanted to get myself this Terminal and money wasn't an issue, would I be able to get one or are there other requirements?
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by jshaqaw on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:48PM (#23902701)
Nope. Pay the money and get your terminal.
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by chadash on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:59PM (#23903710)
You need:

* money to pay for it

* a physical address to ship it to

* not be in a country sanctioned by the US (i'm just assuming)

Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by retube on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:44AM (#23904806)
a bloomberg terminal isn't a physical terminal. it just runs on your PC
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by dx034 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:04AM (#23905142)
You need the keyboard and/or B-Unit for second factor authentication. Licenses are for a single person only and not transferable (there are machine-based licenses but those are increasingly rare).

So you need a shipping address.

Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by closeparen on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:38PM (#23908318)
Don’t a lot of places have a communal / semi-public Terminal? Obviously not for trading, but for information, like a library computer.
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by dx034 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:57AM (#23974390)
Yes, those run on terminal based licenses. Bloomberg still sells those but you need to tell your sells rep exactly why you want one and don't get all features (e.g. IB). They are not very keen on selling those.
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by chadash on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:50AM (#23905827)
I should have specified that you need a shipping address for the ubiquitous keyboard
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by MagnumOpus on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:58AM (#23916412)
For an experienced user the keyboard is superfluous and only useful because it has an integrated fingerprint reader for the 2FA - so you don't have to faff around with their flaky "b-unit" hardware token.

(But yes, you at least need a b-unit to get started.)

Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by exikyut on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:38PM (#23904145)
Based on the "no other requirements" of the other comments, I ÷12'd out of curiosity: $2083/month, or (÷365) $68/day.
Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by dx034 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:07AM (#23905152)
Not even are there no further requirements, it's also one of the very few products where you as a single user will pay about the same as a bank licensing several thousand terminals. I don't know of any other product that doesn't come with meaningful volume discounts no matter what volume you order.