Bloomberg Joins as Supporting Member of the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Bloomberg has joined as a Supporting Member.

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions, such as the Bloomberg Terminal, that enable financial professionals to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.

For more than four decades, the Bloomberg Terminal has revolutionized the financial services industry by bringing transparency and innovation to the capital markets. Trusted by the world’s most influential decision-makers, the Terminal provides real-time access to news, data, insights and trading tools that help our customers turn knowledge into action.

“Bloomberg is excited to join the Unicode Consortium and to help advance the state of internationalized software for global financial applications,” said Matt O’Conor, leader of Bloomberg’s Internationalization Infrastructure Engineering team. “Unicode and its associated technologies are instrumental to the continued success of modern computing. The Bloomberg Terminal is built on Unicode, in order to support our users who speak a variety of languages. We are honored to take part in this worldwide community and to share our own insights and expertise in the global markets with others, as well as to learn from the greater Unicode community as we continue providing first-class products and services to our clients in their respective locales.”

“We are pleased to welcome Bloomberg as a Unicode Consortium member, recognizing the company’s pivotal role in global financial communications and data exchange,” said Toral Cowieson, CEO of Unicode. “As the first financial technology firm to join Unicode, Bloomberg’s expertise and commitment to Unicode’s work will greatly enhance our collective efforts to ensure internationalization standards meet the evolving needs of industries worldwide.”

Supporting Members of the Consortium have representation on up to two technical committees, and a half vote in each one.

Information on Full, Supporting, and Associate memberships and benefits can be found on Unicode’s website along with the list of current members.

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