The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Bloomberg Finance LP $5 million to settle civil charges accusing the company of misleading customers on how it calculated the prices of certain securities, the agency said Monday.
The action could have affected the price at which securities are offered or traded on the platform, the SEC said.
Former New York mayor and one-time presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg owns parent company Bloomberg LP, a data and media company.
The SEC said Bloomberg's customers, including mutual fund companies, used its prices to calculate valuations of their own holdings.
The disclosure issue affected the prices of some government bonds, agency securities, corporate bonds, municipal bonds as well as securitized products, the SEC said.