Rivals say interest is rising from subscribers who fear being left in the dark following this month’s outage.

In If you wander past the rows of desks on any trading floor, two things are likely to be ever present: steaming cups of coffee and flickering Bloomberg terminals.

The latter, with its distinctive multi-colour keyboard and black screen, will be in near-constant use, churning out financial information and connecting internal teams and major financial centres by its chat function.

It has been described variously by practitioners as the “lifeblood” of the financial markets, or its “central nervous system”.

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