Bloomberg's Open Market Data Initiative is part of the company's ongoing effort to foster open solutions for the financial services industry

Date RECENT HEADLINES
02.06.13
Open API (BLPAPI) v3.6.x Released | Version 3.6.x of C/C++, .NET, and Java SDK packages have been released. This release fixes a number of bugs and includes stability and performance enhancements. Release notes are included inside individual packages and indicate new features and specific issues that are now resolved. Downloads are available on the Open API page.
11.21.12
Open API (BLPAPI) v3.5.x Released | Version 3.5.x of all SDK packages have been released. This major release adds new functionality and fixes a number of bugs and includes stability and performance enhancements. Release notes are included inside individual packages and indicate new features and specific issues that are now resolved.
09.24.12
EDI’s Corporate Actions Service adopts Bloomberg Open Symbology | Exchange Data International adopts Bloomberg free-use data tagging system to reduce trading costs and risks.
06.28.12
Open API (BLPAPI) v3.4.8.1 Released | Version 3.4.8.1 of all SDK packages have been released. This release fixes a number of bugs and includes stability and performance enhancements. Release notes are included inside individual packages and indicate specific issues that are now resolved. Downloads are available on the Open API page.
05.18.12
Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit Recap | The Bloomberg Link Enterprise Technology Summit brought together senior technology executives from the public and private sector, many with experience with the financial services industry.

Open API

Now, you can adopt Bloomberg’s market data interfaces without cost or restriction. The widely used Bloomberg API, with its proven and comprehensive interface, supports publish/subscribe and request/response paradigms, as well as authorization and entitlements. Bloomberg intends to work with its customers and the open community to further enhance and extend this powerful technology for financial applications.

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Open Symbology

Access Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), a flexible and open system for identifying securities across all global asset classes. The BSYM identifiers are available free of charge with no material impediments on use. The identifiers can be used for research, trading and mapping. And Bloomberg will continue to update, build and administer the BSYM identifiers to ensure their accuracy and effectiveness.

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IDENTIFIERS

Open Source – Basic Standard Library

Part of Bloomberg’s Basic Development Environment, the Basic Standard Library is Bloomberg’s lowest-level set of components used for constructing large scale production software. BDE (Basic Development Environment) is a set of C++ software libraries as well as development tools and methodology. Originally developed at Bloomberg L.P., BDE is intended to form the foundation for large [...]

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BSL OPEN SOURCE