MUMBAI: Bloomberg expanded its commitment to Malaysia with the opening of a new office in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, featuring state-of-the-art training facilities, a broadcast studio and expanded floor space to allow for future expansion.

As part of the company?s enhanced commitment, Bloomberg will also be providing specialised training to 125 participants in areas including foreign exchange and Islamic finance at its new premises in support of the Financial Sector Talent Enrichment Programme (FSTEP).

Supported by the Malaysian financial services sector, FSTEP is an industry-driven project consisting of a one-year intensive training in banking and insurance. The programme is managed by Institut Bank-Bank Malaysia in collaboration with Bank Negara Malaysia, and aims to contribute in building a talent pool to serve the needs of the financial services industry.

The new office and added training commitment are part of Bloomberg?s ongoing investment in product development, news coverage and training in Malaysia, as Asean?s third largest economy continues to internationalise its financial sector.

?As Malaysia continues to grow in stature as a leading regional and international financial center, we will continue to add resources to this incredibly important market,? said Bloomberg CEO and President Dan Doctoroff.

"That?s why we entered Malaysia over 20 years ago, and that?s why we are opening a brand new state-of the art facility in Kuala Lumpur today. This new office provides a unique space in which to innovate, support our customers and stay ahead of trends and insights in the Malaysian economy, with ample room for us to grow even further with Malaysia."

Most recently, Bloomberg collaborated with Bank Negara Malaysia, the Association of Islamic Banking Institutions Malaysia and Bursa Malaysia to launch three sukuk indices for Malaysia, the world?s biggest sukuk market.

MUMBAI: Bloomberg Sports, founded as a vertical division of Bloomberg and now part of a joint venture with IMG, has formed a new data analytics partnership with Gala Coral, one of Europe?s largest betting houses.

The partnership will give Gala Coral subscribers free access to the advanced analytics data from the recently-launched BSports Match Analysis football product. Gala Coral Group is one of Europe?s pre-eminent betting and gaming businesses with strong market positions and well established brands, both in retail shops and online.

Launched in September, BSports Match Analysis delivers advanced statistics and predictive analysis for the English Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1.

Built from in-depth analysis of current and historical data, Match Analysis provides predictive models on the winner, final, half-time score, and total goals, breaking down each of the key game factors as well as a host of original information. 

"We are very pleased to work with Gala Coral as our first soccer data analytics partner," said Bloomberg Sports Head Bill Squadron. "We expect the scientifically based projections, insights and statistics in our BSports Match Analysis product to be as popular with fans of football as our work with Major League Baseball has been in the United States."

"Coral is all about presenting the best possible products and services to help our customers. Bloomberg Sports is the world leader in predictive analytics and the BSports Match Analysis product will be a hit with our customers," said Gala Coral MD John O?Reilly. 

NEW DELHI: Senior media person Pranjal Sharma has been appointed Advisor in Prasar Bharati to devise strategies on ?News Media and Content Strategy?.

Sharma was until recently Executive Editor at Bloomberg UTV, which he had helped set up in India.

Combining media experience of around 21 years, Sharma is expected to help the pubcaster to foray into new fields in media.

DD sources said he will also look at the programme strategy of both All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan.