Bloomberg Biography

Michael R. Bloomberg, president of Bloomberg Financial Markets, has revolutionalized financial communication.

He founded the company in 1981, turning an initial order for 20 terminals into a multimedia, analytical and news service supplying information in almost every country.

Bloomberg Financial Markets is a global, multimedia-based distributor of information services, combining news, data and analysis for global financial markets and businesses.

Bloomberg provides real-time pricing, data, history, analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through 50,000 proprietary terminals used by over 140,000 financial professionals in 62 countries worldwide.

Through an unparalleled combination of information and analytics, Bloomberg Financial Markets has quickly built a worldwide customer base of issuers, Financial intermediaries and institutional investors.