Bloomberg Products and Platforms

aid: bloomberg-products-and-platforms
name: Bloomberg Products and Platforms
description: Bloomberg Products and Platforms covers the breadth of Bloomberg's integrated offerings spanning the Bloomberg
  Terminal, Enterprise data products, API platforms, trading systems, analytics, messaging, media, and government intelligence
  solutions. Bloomberg serves financial professionals with an interconnected ecosystem of products and platforms for data,
  analytics, and communication.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-products-and-platforms.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-products-and-platforms/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-21'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Products
- Platforms
- Terminal
- Enterprise
- Financial Data
- Analytics
- Bloomberg
apis:
- aid: bloomberg-products-and-platforms:blpapi
  name: Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)
  description: Cross-platform API providing access to the full Bloomberg data ecosystem including real-time, reference, and
    historical data with SDKs for Python, Java, C++, and other languages.
  humanURL: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
  baseURL: blpapi://localhost:8194
  tags:
  - Core API
  - Cross-Platform
  - Market Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- aid: bloomberg-products-and-platforms:bpipe
  name: Bloomberg B-PIPE
  description: Enterprise data distribution platform for delivering Bloomberg data at scale to multiple applications and users
    within an institution using a managed entitlement and authorization framework.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
  baseURL: blpapi://bpipe-server:8194
  tags:
  - B-PIPE
  - Enterprise
  - Data Distribution
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/
- aid: bloomberg-products-and-platforms:emsx
  name: Bloomberg EMSX (Electronic Order Management)
  description: Bloomberg's Electronic Order Management System (EMSX) enabling electronic order routing to brokers across equities,
    fixed income, FX, and derivatives. Provides FIX connectivity, algorithmic trading, and TCA.
  humanURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/emsx/
  baseURL: blpapi://localhost:8194
  tags:
  - EMSX
  - Order Management
  - FIX
  - Electronic Trading
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/emsx/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-products-and-platforms-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-products-and-platforms-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomberg
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Bloomberg Terminal
    description: Professional workstation integrating data, analytics, news, and messaging.
  - name: Enterprise Data Distribution
    description: B-PIPE for institution-wide Bloomberg data sharing.
  - name: Electronic Trading
    description: EMSX for electronic order routing and execution management.
  - name: Cloud Products
    description: Cloud-native Bloomberg data and analytics via cloud connectivity.
  - name: Mobile Access
    description: Bloomberg Anywhere for mobile and remote product access.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Buy-Side Investment Workflows
    description: End-to-end data, analytics, and trading workflow for asset managers.
  - name: Sell-Side Market Making
    description: Data and trading tools for bank trading desks and market makers.
  - name: Financial Research
    description: Bloomberg Intelligence and data for research teams.
  - name: Risk Operations
    description: Risk data and analytics integration for risk management operations.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kinlane@gmail.com