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By clicking "Save Settings", you agree to the use of these tools. For more information, please read our Privacy Policy. Spokespeople for Bloomberg, JPMorgan and Reuters declined to comment.We, and third parties, use cookies and other electronic tools to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and deliver advertisements tailored to your interests. Two years later, The Post first broke the news that Bloomberg reporters had used the terminal to snoop on bankers’ whereabouts by employing terminal functions that weren’t available to other users. In 2011, Bloomberg ran a story that compared the bank to Nazis over a debt deal gone bad. Tensions have been simmering between Bloomberg and JPMorgan for years. While the company had record revenue and subscribers last year, Bloomberg is selective with its financial information and doesn’t release expenses or profits. While JPMorgan mulls pulling away from Bloomberg, doing so wouldn’t cripple the data company, which has more than 327,000 subscribers. The central position that the company occupies has made Michael Bloomberg the world’s 10th-richest man, with a net worth of $39.3 billion, according to Forbes.
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The change could mark a seismic shift on Wall Street, which has struggled to free itself from Bloomberg’s clunky, expensive terminals but has found few viable alternatives. JPMorgan wouldn’t force anyone to give up their terminal if it was absolutely needed, and the changes wouldn’t affect most people working in investment banking or asset management, one source said. A Bloomberg terminal displays data at the NYSE. The shift to Reuters is projected to save the company between $18 million and $36 million a year. JPMorgan is Bloomberg’s second-biggest client, with more than 10,000 subscriptions, sources said. The potential switch-over to Reuters’ own version of the terminal, called Eikon, comes as Wall Street’s biggest banks are getting deeper into cost-cutting.Ĭitigroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are all said to be considering deep cuts in their terminal subscriptions, some as much as 25 percent, sources said. “Unseating the incumbent is never an easy thing,” Kevin McPartland, a Greenwich Associates analyst who covers both Bloomberg and Reuters, told The Post.īut, McPartland added, “ put a ton of time and money into the platform.” The New York-based bank is in the midst of negotiating contracts with Thomson Reuters - Bloomberg’s main competitor - to replace at least 1,000 to 2,000 terminals worldwide during the next two years, according to a person directly familiar with the company’s plans. The JPMorgan Chase CEO is preparing to rip out thousands of its $21,000-a-year Bloomberg terminals over the coming two or three years, which may crimp the private financial data company that’s made Mike Bloomberg one of the world’s richest men, The Post has learned exclusively. Jamie Dimon may be pulling the plug on Bloomberg terminals, unless he can get a deal. Morgan Stanley boss to young bankers: You're 'nuts' if you're not in the office JPMorgan CEO Dimon: Bank will outlive China's Communist Party Jamie Dimon 'regrets' saying JPMorgan will outlive the Chinese Communist Party Jamie Dimon’s quick kowtow after telling truth on communist China