# Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-valuation-service-bval/  
**Website:** https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) is Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service providing independent fair value prices for over 2.5 million fixed income securities including corporate bonds, municipal bonds, government securities, structured products, and derivatives. BVAL prices are designed for portfolio valuation, NAV calculation, regulatory reporting, and risk management, with full transparency on pricing methodology and inputs.

## Kin Score — 20.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 25.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Bloomberg BVAL Pricing API** — Access BVAL evaluated prices, yield curves, spread data, and pricing transparency metadata for fixed income securities via BLPAPI and Data License. Supports corporate bonds, mun...
- **Bloomberg BVAL Municipal Bond Pricing** — Evaluated pricing for US municipal bonds with BVAL's deep munis coverage providing independent prices for general obligation, revenue, and specialty municipal securities. Widely...
- **Bloomberg BVAL Structured Product Pricing** — Evaluated pricing for complex structured finance instruments including ABS, MBS, CMBS, CLOs, and other securitized products using market-consistent models and observable market ...

## Security (1)

- **Bloomberg Valuation Service Bval Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bloomberg Valuation Service Bval Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **NAV Calculation** — Use BVAL prices for end-of-day NAV calculation for fixed income funds.
- **Portfolio Valuation** — Value fixed income portfolios at fair value for reporting and analytics.
- **Regulatory Reporting** — Meet fair value measurement requirements for ASC 820 and IFRS 13 reporting.
- **Risk Management** — Use BVAL prices for mark-to-market and risk analytics.
- **Collateral Valuation** — Value fixed income collateral for repo, lending, and margin purposes.
- **Performance Attribution** — Calculate accurate returns and attribution using BVAL evaluated prices.

## Tags

BVAL, Evaluated Pricing, Fixed Income, Fair Value, Bond Pricing, Municipal Bonds, Structured Products, Bloomberg

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg-valuation-service-bval/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.