As communications channels multiply and regulatory scrutiny increases, move from reactive oversight to proactive communications governance with Bloomberg Vault. Vault brings a multitude of your firm’s communications data together, helping you identify patterns, surface potential issues and respond with speed and precision.

Multi-channel archiving and surveillance

Vault unites chat, voice, email and trade data across regions and channels in a single compliance solution, with lexicon and AI models that proactively surface communications risk.

Preventive controls

Built-in preventive compliance controls across Bloomberg channels help identify and stop potential risk before it happens.

AI innovation

AI-powered surveillance models combine advanced intelligence with operational transparency, delivering risk detection across a broad range of compliance domains.

World-class service

Our specialists will work closely with your teams to configure, manage and optimize Vault so it meets your firm’s needs.

Secure infrastructure

Vault runs on the same secure infrastructure trusted by the world’s leading financial institutions, providing the resilience, scale and data integrity needed for your firm’s sensitive data.

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Vault has streamlined our review process, allowing potential violations to be identified more efficiently while delivering more meaningful and actionable insights. This is complemented by Bloomberg’s excellent customer service and outstanding support.

Compliance professional 

Global Asset Manager


Capture, record and supervise a wide range of communications

See what you can do with Bloomberg Vault

Take proactive steps to prevent risks before they arise

Vault embeds preventive compliance controls directly within Bloomberg communication channels. Controls include:

  • Policy-triggered message alerting
  • Digital information barriers
  • Global communication permission and chatroom access controls 

This brings governance into the communication workflow itself, enabling your firm to intervene before risk materializes.

Capture communications and trades across channels

Vault aggregates communications and trades across Bloomberg and third-party channels into a normalized data framework.

  • Channel capture includes email, chat, collaboration and voice such as Instant Bloomberg (IB), Bloomberg Message (MSG), Slack, MS Teams, WhatsApp and WeChat, landline and softphone
  • Trade data capture includes third-party trading systems and direct connections with Bloomberg’s order and execution management systems
  • Standardized metadata capture enables consistent downstream review

Store records with confidence

Vault provides configurable tools to help clients with global recordkeeping obligations. Archival features include:

  • Immutable storage
  • Configurable retention policies with data hold capabilities
  • Data isolation and governance controls
  • Enterprise-grade security

Use AI models and communications surveillance lexicons to detect risk

Vault communications surveillance combines configurable lexicons with domain-trained AI models to deliver comprehensive risk detection. Use Vault to detect a wide variety of risks across electronic communications (eComms) and voice communications (vComms), including market abuse, conflicts of interest, conduct risk and data loss prevention. The AI surveillance models are explainable and policy logic is documented to support transparency. 

Investigate with context 

Alerts are only the beginning. Effective communications supervision requires structured investigation, documented decision-making and clear escalation paths. Vault enables:  

  • Search and cross-channel querying  
  • Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) 
  • Case management   
  • Escalation workflows  
  • Surveillance audit trail capabilities  


 
 

Extract and report communications data with ease

From internal reporting to formal examination responses, Vault enables reproducible oversight, including:  

  • On-demand and scheduled surveillance reports for evidence of supervisory oversight and internal audit    
  • Export-ready records in PST, XML, TXT and WAV formats  

Evolve your communications governance program

Compliance programs must evolve as risk evolves. Vault provides tools to:  

  • Analyze alert volumes, trends, resolution performance, policy efficacy, keyword hit rates and more  
  • Back-test rules prior to deployment to understand impact on alert volumes  
  • Use findings to refine approaches and workflows and calibrate lexicons 

Take proactive steps to prevent risks before they arise

Vault embeds preventive compliance controls directly within Bloomberg communication channels. Controls include:

  • Policy-triggered message alerting
  • Digital information barriers
  • Global communication permission and chatroom access controls 

This brings governance into the communication workflow itself, enabling your firm to intervene before risk materializes.

Capture communications and trades across channels

Vault aggregates communications and trades across Bloomberg and third-party channels into a normalized data framework.

  • Channel capture includes email, chat, collaboration and voice such as Instant Bloomberg (IB), Bloomberg Message (MSG), Slack, MS Teams, WhatsApp and WeChat, landline and softphone
  • Trade data capture includes third-party trading systems and direct connections with Bloomberg’s order and execution management systems
  • Standardized metadata capture enables consistent downstream review

Store records with confidence

Vault provides configurable tools to help clients with global recordkeeping obligations. Archival features include:

  • Immutable storage
  • Configurable retention policies with data hold capabilities
  • Data isolation and governance controls
  • Enterprise-grade security

Use AI models and communications surveillance lexicons to detect risk

Vault communications surveillance combines configurable lexicons with domain-trained AI models to deliver comprehensive risk detection. Use Vault to detect a wide variety of risks across electronic communications (eComms) and voice communications (vComms), including market abuse, conflicts of interest, conduct risk and data loss prevention. The AI surveillance models are explainable and policy logic is documented to support transparency. 

Investigate with context 

Alerts are only the beginning. Effective communications supervision requires structured investigation, documented decision-making and clear escalation paths. Vault enables:  

  • Search and cross-channel querying  
  • Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) 
  • Case management   
  • Escalation workflows  
  • Surveillance audit trail capabilities  


 
 

Extract and report communications data with ease

From internal reporting to formal examination responses, Vault enables reproducible oversight, including:  

  • On-demand and scheduled surveillance reports for evidence of supervisory oversight and internal audit    
  • Export-ready records in PST, XML, TXT and WAV formats  

Evolve your communications governance program

Compliance programs must evolve as risk evolves. Vault provides tools to:  

  • Analyze alert volumes, trends, resolution performance, policy efficacy, keyword hit rates and more  
  • Back-test rules prior to deployment to understand impact on alert volumes  
  • Use findings to refine approaches and workflows and calibrate lexicons 
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Bloomberg Vault's AI models have reduced our alert volumes by over 45%.

Compliance Officer 

Leading International Asset Manager 

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With Bloomberg Vault, we have seen an increase in alerts of value and a reduction in false positives.

Head of Market Abuse Compliance

Global Investment Bank

Research & Insights

Communications Surveillance Program Assessment Guide

Can your firm demonstrate its communications surveillance program is comprehensive, risk-aligned and defensible? This guide provides a five-pillar framework you can use to evaluate your program’s effectiveness. 

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