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Bloomberg tech chief says AI could streamline 80% of analyst workload

AI could boost productivity tenfold in some areas, Shawn Edwards tells FN

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Toppling Bloomberg ‘needs a nuclear bomb’: Can the London Stock Exchange Group dent its dominance?

Workspace by LSEG is making a big push to win market share in data but something exceptional will be needed to knock the Bloomberg Terminal off its perch

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Both the EU and UK have been looking to develop a golden source of trade data

Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb scrap joint data venture

Trio had planned a bid to be the consolidated tape provider for bonds in Europe and the UK

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Bloomberg is buying new providers to supplement its famous Terminal

Bloomberg gets go-ahead to buy Broadway Technology

Deal marks latest move in data providers' fight to grab more market share

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Melding LSEG’s data and Microsoft’s tech represents the biggest threat yet to Bloomberg’s financial-data business

London Stock Exchange goes after Bloomberg’s data crown with Microsoft deal

Deal strengthens challenge to Bloomberg’s financial data business, analysts say

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President Donald Trump with Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman at the White House.

Meet the Wall Street titans donating millions to swing the US election

Michael Bloomberg is backing Biden, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman is backing Trump

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Symphony, which rivals Bloomberg, doubled its hiring plans for 2020

Symphony doubles hiring plans after 300% user surge among home-bound bankers

Symphony has seized on a boom in demand for surveillance and compliance as hundreds of thousands of bankers work from home

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Commuter cross Westminster Bridge in London.

75% of bankers are scared to return to their desks as pressure mounts to get back to the office

After maintaining a cautious approach to bringing staff back, investment banks are ramping up the return. An FN poll found many are happier at home

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A commuter walks down steps to the north bank of the River Thames by the Millennium Footbridge with St Paul's Cathedral in the background in central London on September 7, 2020.

As government U-turns, here’s how banks were trying to tempt staff back to the office

Big City firms were being creative with perks to get staff back to work — but may have to rethink if the government's formal advice changes

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No butts: Bloomberg staff told to stop dropping cigarettes

Media group receives complaints about employees littering neighbourhood during smoking breaks

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David Craig, chief executive of Refinitiv

Refinitiv CEO readies for data tussle with Bloomberg

David Craig sees the firm created in $17bn leveraged buyout as an established company with a start-up feel

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Tradeweb chief wants to create Amazon for bonds

Lee Olesky and his rivals have helped move fixed income trading away from the phone but there is ample room for growth

Bloomberg changes course on a crucial Mifid II bond list

Vastly different lists of liquid bonds have bewildered some quarters of the European bond market