Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together
By SUSANNE CRAIG and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are usually bitter rivals, competing for lucrative banking and trading business. But one day in April, the Wall Street titans found common ground: frustration with the Bloomberg news and financial data empire.
Goldman’s public relations chief, Jake Siewert, a former Treasury official, called his counterpart at JPMorgan Chase, Joe Evangelisti, with a simple question: “Do you have any issues with Bloomberg?”
Before he could finish his sentence, Mr. Evangelisti began rattling off his grievances, say people briefed on the call. At the top of the list was a Bloomberg News article in 2011 that likened the strife in an Italian town after a bad deal with JPMorgan to the fallout from the Nazis’ occupation in World War II. He also mentioned another episode when a Bloomberg reporter surreptitiously obtained an access code to listen to a private conference call for senior executives.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/hunch-about-bloomberg-brought-rivals-together/?hp
Great desktop with a practical stranglehold on the market, but as the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Good news for Eikon, Factset and CapIQ.
Let the games begin!