Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL)
Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) is Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service providing independent fair value prices for over 2.5 million fixed income securities including corporate bonds, municipal bonds, government securities, structured products, and derivatives. BVAL prices are designed for portfolio valuation, NAV calculation, regulatory reporting, and risk management, with full transparency on pricing methodology and inputs.
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API Evangelist profiles Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) scores 29.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 3
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Bloomberg BVAL Pricing API
Access BVAL evaluated prices, yield curves, spread data, and pricing transparency metadata for fixed income securities via BLPAPI and Data License. Supports corporate bonds, mun...
Bloomberg BVAL Municipal Bond Pricing
Evaluated pricing for US municipal bonds with BVAL's deep munis coverage providing independent prices for general obligation, revenue, and specialty municipal securities. Widely...
Bloomberg BVAL Structured Product Pricing
Evaluated pricing for complex structured finance instruments including ABS, MBS, CMBS, CLOs, and other securitized products using market-consistent models and observable market ...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Bloomberg Valuation Service Bval Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Independent Fair Value Prices
Third-party evaluated prices for over 2.5 million fixed income securities.
Price Transparency
Full transparency on pricing methodology, comparable securities, and model inputs.
Coverage Breadth
Pricing coverage for corporate, government, municipal, and structured products globally.
Regulatory-Grade Prices
BVAL prices designed to meet ASC 820/IFRS 13 fair value hierarchy requirements.
Yield Curve Data
Bloomberg yield curves and spread surfaces used in BVAL pricing.
Audit Trail
Full audit trail and pricing justification for regulatory and compliance review.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
NAV Calculation
Use BVAL prices for end-of-day NAV calculation for fixed income funds.
Portfolio Valuation
Value fixed income portfolios at fair value for reporting and analytics.
Regulatory Reporting
Meet fair value measurement requirements for ASC 820 and IFRS 13 reporting.
Risk Management
Use BVAL prices for mark-to-market and risk analytics.
Collateral Valuation
Value fixed income collateral for repo, lending, and margin purposes.
Performance Attribution
Calculate accurate returns and attribution using BVAL evaluated prices.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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