Post Trade
The name of Jacob's cat
What is Muffin?
This step happens after execution, where shares or bonds are assigned to specific accounts.
What is allocation?
This board game inspired Bloomberg's <GO> key
What is Monopoly?
The other "official" name for the 6th floor
What is the Link?
This borough is home to both Yankee Stadium and the New York Botanical Garden
What is the Bronx?
This part of the trade lifecycle ensures cash and securities are exchanged.
What is settlement?
VCON <GO> is used for this type of trade affirmation.
What is voice confirmation?
The engineering department was once known by this name
What is R&D?
The type of big fish you might see after stepping off the elevators from ground
What are Koi fish?
This Dutch colonial name was the original name of New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
You might check this system’s cache and logs if a ticket doesn’t appear in TC, or has missing/incorrect data.
What is tradesvc?
You might check this function to review ticket details at the database level.
What is FTDB?
Bloomberg keyboards have color-coded keys — green for Go, red for Cancel, yellow for asset classes. You'll take this action on a different green key when you don't know how to use a function.
What is pressing the green <Help> key twice?
This is currently the snack of the week
What are (Uglies) Jalapeno kettle chips?
Before it was renamed in 1972, this transit hub was known as the Pan Am Building.
What is the MetLife Building?
You might “DK” message if you're rejecting a trade that cannot be confirmed.
What is “Don’t Know”?
This blotter is used to review trades that triggered rule violations?
What is VMGR <GO>?
731 Lexington Ave has this many total floors
What is 55 floors?
This was the veggie of the month in September.
What are cherry tomatoes?
Before adopting its current name, this borough was known as Kings County.
What is Brooklyn?
This part of Bloomberg enriches trades before sending them to regulators
What is RHUB? (Regulatory Reporting Hub)
In Trading Systems, this overnight process clears day orders, rolls GTC/GTD, and processes corporate actions.
What is Backend (BKMN)?
A one month subscription of the Bloomberg Terminal would cost you this much in 2001
What is ~$1300 per month?
The name of the chandelier found above the west side of the 6th floor.
What is Rabbit's Moon?
Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 playing for this Brooklyn team.
Who were the Brooklyn Dodgers?