Bloomberg data wars: Into darkness

Bloomberg brought a knife to a gunfight when it tried to pry information out of Goldman Sachs by using details gathered from the data and media firm’s terminals about the bank’s employees. An enquiry by a Bloomberg reporter about whether a partner had left Goldman, given that his terminal was not in regular use, set alarms bells ringing at a bank that has a well-deserved reputation for paranoia.

Goldman has an equally well-deserved reputation for swift action and aggression, and by taking public its beef over the accessing of terminal user data, the bank dealt a serious blow to Bloomberg’s ambitions to extend the areas in which it competes with its customer base.

A scandal about whether Bloomberg gave the reporters in its news division improper access to terminal user data will not necessarily derail the firm’s attempts to develop a swap execution facility or broaden its trading platforms.

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