AwardedAwarded 12 May 2025
Bloomberg Renewal 2025
Financial Conduct Authority · Local or regional public body
In brief
Financial Conduct Authority awarded IT and software work to Bloomberg Finance L.P. on 12 May 2025.
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What the notice says
They FCA required daily access to market data. Some of the risks in this requirement is not in place: It would limit the FCA's ability to bring successful criminal and regulatory action.
FCA may not effectively review alerts from our surveillance system, with a risk to our commitment to clean markets. The FCA could not monitor for orderly markets. The data and insight that Bloomberg can provide is key for departments to be able to deliver on its
market monitoring objective. There is no viable alternative product. Major policy would go without empirical support, in short evidence-based policy making would be severely impacted. Retaining Bloomberg license is critical for the FCA to complete our statutory objective of 1/ promoting competition and 2/ consumer protection. We are increasingly encouraged to rely on more existing data within the FCA and enhance those with publicly available data. Bloomberg licences is critical to enhance regulatory returns and allow us to perform our function of financial analysis. Internal departments would impact the ability to conduct real-time surveillance of the UK market. Monitoring key funds and relevant investments, market trends and volatility and cross-referencing company information (to test its veracity) in various complex Supervisory efforts would become difficult.
Who won
| Winner | Value | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg Finance L.P. | $895,248 | 15 May 2025 to 14 May 2026 |
Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.
Timeline
- Contract details notice · UK7, notice 019643-2026
- Contract termination notice · UK11, notice 058276-2026
About the buyer
Financial Conduct AuthorityLast 12 months
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From notice 019643-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 4 March 2026, last updated 19 June 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.