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100

Complete this sentence: "When selling enterprise products we never have a ____   ____ conversation."

What is "Single Pillar"?

100

What does OTC stand for?

Over the Counter

100



"Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel."



What is Wall Street (1987)?

100

Complete this sentence: "At Bloomberg, we are guided by four core values that are the foundation of our continued success: innovation, collaboration, customer service and ________."

What is "doing the right thing."

100

This product allows our clients to use the data they request/receive through their license/subscriptions with Bloomberg on an Enterprise Level.

What is Data License?

200

This principle says that 80% of returns comes from 20% of efforts.

What is The Paretto Principle?

200

Bloomberg FIT is a fixed income trading venue. What are two other non-Bloomberg fixed income trading venues?

Tradeweb, MarketAxess

200



"Turn Those Machines Back On!"


What is Trading Places (1983)?

200

The original name for Bloomberg.

What is
Innovative Market Systems (IMS)?

200

Which business is worth $1.3b to Bloomberg at the moment?

What is Reference Data?

300

The four sell-side business models that McKinsey suggests are likely to succeed as economic, regulatory and technological trends play out.

What are (1) Global Full Service Player, (2) Focused Global Player, (3) National or Regional Commercial Bank, (4) Non-Bank Competitor.  

300

Fill in the blank:
____ is staging blotter, primarily used by buyside who send orders from external OMS and execute electronically on FIT.

TSOX

300


"No one can see a bubble.
That's what makes it a bubble."


What is The Big Short (2015)?

300

This company initially purchased 20 terminals and a 30% equity stake for US$30m and was Bloomberg's first customer.

What is Merrill Lynch?

300

Which product is an extension of Desktop API (DAPI)?

SAPI

400

These three large paradigms are driving the "buy-to-build" trend.

What is Cloud, SaaS and API?

400

Which product provides direct trading connectivity to external electronic markets, automated processing of electronic client flow, and automated order routing and execution?

ETOMS

400


"And there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close?"


What is Boiler Room (2000)?

400

Acquired by Bloomberg in 2020, this consumer data analytics company analyzes billions of anonymized purchases at businesses to gain insights into company performance and consumer behavior.

What is Second Measure?

400

Which product provides access to multiple Bloomberg micro-services through a singular, common API? 

Bloomberg’s Data Distribution Manager

500

There are six sell-side pillars: Investment Banking, Sales & Research, Trading & Execution, ____, ____, and ____.

What is Risk Management, Operations and Data Management & Infrastructure?

500

BTCA has two types of input data. What are they?

Trade Data and Market Data

500



"So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism."


What is Margin Call (2011)?

500

When Bloomberg L.P. opened its first office in London in 1987, after Merrill Lynch U.K., these two firms were Bloomberg's next two UK-based clients.  

What are the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements?

500

This Bloomberg product is a normalized and consolidated cross-asset class real-time/historical market data feed that can be distributed throughout the Enterprise. What is it?

B-PIPE