# Bloomberg Chat Archiving for SEC & FINRA Firms Archive Instant Bloomberg chat and Bloomberg Message alongside WhatsApp, iMessage and email, from Bloomberg's daily compliance feed. One archive. Source: https://commacompliance.com/channels/bloomberg-chat-compliance Last updated: 2026-10-12 --- Trading & Market Chat # Your traders live in Bloomberg. Your archive should too. Bring Instant Bloomberg chat and Bloomberg Message into the same searchable archive as email and mobile messaging. Comma ingests Bloomberg's daily compliance feed, helping your compliance team review and retrieve business communications across channels in one place. Bloomberg data is delivered daily, not in real time. [Book a demo](/get-in-touch) For trading desks, Instant Bloomberg (IB) is where client and counterparty conversations happen. These chats are business communications subject to applicable recordkeeping requirements under [SEC Rule 17a-4](/regulations/sec-17a-4) and [FINRA Rule 4511](/regulations/finra-rule-4511). The problem is rarely capturing Bloomberg on its own. It is that Bloomberg chat sits in one system, WhatsApp and iMessage sit in another, and email in a third. When an examiner asks for everything a trader said about a position, your team searches three systems and stitches the results together by hand. Comma brings Bloomberg chat into the same archive as your firm’s other communications. ## What Comma archives from Bloomberg **Instant Bloomberg (IB) chat** - one-to-one and group chat messages, room invites and attachments. **Bloomberg Message (MSG)** - Bloomberg’s email-style messages and their attachments. Both arrive from Bloomberg’s **daily compliance feed**. Bloomberg exports your in-scope users’ messages once every 24 hours, and Comma pulls each new delivery into your archive. It is a daily feed, not real-time capture. ## How it gets set up Bloomberg chat archiving is set up with Bloomberg, not self-serve. Your firm arranges the compliance feed with your Bloomberg representative, and Comma provides the keys and connection details Bloomberg needs. Bloomberg archiving is turned on per team, so contact us to enable it for your firm. [Read the Bloomberg Chat setup guide →](https://docs.commacompliance.com/guides/bloomberg-chat-setup/) ## Why it matters by role ### For your compliance team - #### One archive across every channel Bloomberg chat lands alongside WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, email and your other channels. Same search, same review queue, same export path. - #### Supervise Bloomberg with the rest Apply the same policy matching and reviewer workflow to Bloomberg conversations that you use for mobile messaging and email. ### For your IT team - #### Nothing on the Terminal No agents on trader workstations or software to install on the Bloomberg Terminal. The feed runs directly between Bloomberg and Comma. - #### Encrypted delivery Bloomberg encrypts each daily file using a key held exclusively by Comma. ### For your traders - #### Bloomberg works exactly as it does today No new tools and no change to how anyone uses IB chat or Bloomberg Message. ## FAQ about Bloomberg chat archiving Is Instant Bloomberg chat subject to SEC and FINRA recordkeeping? Yes. SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 apply to business communications regardless of the platform. A client conversation in Instant Bloomberg carries the same retention and production obligations as an email, and FINRA Rule 3110 requires firms to supervise it. Is Bloomberg chat captured in real time? No. Comma archives Bloomberg chat from Bloomberg's daily compliance feed, which Bloomberg exports once every 24 hours. New messages appear in the archive after the next daily delivery. What do we need from Bloomberg? A Bloomberg Anywhere license and a Daily Compliance File feed set up through your Bloomberg representative, with compliance capture enabled for your in-scope users. The [setup guide](https://docs.commacompliance.com/guides/bloomberg-chat-setup/) lists exactly what to send Bloomberg. Does Bloomberg chat go into the same archive as our other channels? Yes. Bloomberg chat and Bloomberg Message land in the same archive as your mobile messaging, email and collaboration channels, searchable and exportable through the same interface. Is Bloomberg included in the $33 per user price? Bloomberg is one of the channels covered by Comma's flat per-user pricing. Because it is enabled per team, [talk to us](/get-in-touch) to turn it on for your firm. ## Bring Bloomberg into the same archive. Bring IB chat and Bloomberg Message alongside WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and email in one place your team can search and review. [Book a demo](/get-in-touch)[Pricing](/pricing) Related reading - [All 40+ channels](/platform-integrations) Bloomberg is one of 40+ channels Comma archives into one archive. - [Bloomberg Chat setup guide](https://docs.commacompliance.com/guides/bloomberg-chat-setup/) What you arrange with Bloomberg and what you configure in Comma.