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Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by gottareply2020 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:33AM (#23904339)
It’s accessing the chat data. If a bad actor could access incoming chats from a major broker’s PT/Swaps desk, a great deal of money could be made.
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Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by dx034 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:53AM (#23905104)
That's for any piece of trading software used at brokers, banks and asset managers. Bloomberg IB is a central piece of trading architecture but not more so than many others.
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