Too ’Berg to fail? What October’s Instant Bloomberg outage means for the industry
The ubiquitous communications platform is vital for traders around the globe, especially in fixed income and exotic derivatives. When it fails, the disruption can be great
On October 8, a fixed income trader at a large US hedge fund noticed something odd – Instant Bloomberg’s chat function (IB Chat) had gone down. While outages are a normal, and, to an extent, expected part of life for any sustained online service, Bloomberg outages are particularly rare, especially given the high number of users active on the platform each day.
Bloomberg estimated in 2022 that there
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