WHAT IS ASKB?
ASKB is Bloomberg’ s conversational AI interface designed to act as a high-powered research assistant for financial professionals.
Instead of manually switching between different apps to find data, users simply ask questions in plain English.
The system then orchestrates a coordinated network of specialised AI agents to hunt down answers across the Bloomberg Terminal’ s massive ecosystem.
How it works Unlike standard AI that might hallucinate or guess, ASKB is grounded in institutional intelligence.
It doesn’ t just read text; it understands the complex relationships between 450 billion data points and millions of news stories. It works by:
• Drawing simultaneously from earnings transcripts, real-time news and a firm’ s own proprietary research.
• Using multiple agents to handle different tasks, like analysing portfolio risk or predicting retail trends with credit card data.
• Providing clear citations for every answer to the original document and the underlying code used for calculations.
As Wayne Barlow, Global Head of Terminal Products, puts it:“ With the evolution of ASKB, we are helping our clients transition from an era of data discovery to an era of institutional intelligence.
“ We are providing investors with an agentic AI engine that synthesises insights based on the comprehensive web of interconnected market data and a firm’ s proprietary knowledge so they can hone their unique, alpha-generating perspectives.”