Founded in 1971 and headquartered in New York, Nasdaq Inc. is a leading provider of trading, clearing, marketplace technology, regulatory, securities listing, information and public and private company services.
The company’s global offerings are diverse and include trading and clearing across multiple asset classes, trade management services, data products, financial indexes, capital formation solutions, corporate solutions, and market technology products and services. Its technology powers markets across the globe, supporting equity derivative trading, clearing and settlement, cash equity trading, fixed income trading, trading surveillance and many other functions.
In the United ...
Founded in 1971 and headquartered in New York, Nasdaq Inc. is a leading provider of trading, clearing, marketplace technology, regulatory, securities listing, information and public and private company services.
The company’s global offerings are diverse and include trading and clearing across multiple asset classes, trade management services, data products, financial indexes, capital formation solutions, corporate solutions, and market technology products and services. Its technology powers markets across the globe, supporting equity derivative trading, clearing and settlement, cash equity trading, fixed income trading, trading surveillance and many other functions.
In the United States., the company operates The Nasdaq Stock Market, while in Europe, it operates exchanges in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland as Nasdaq Nordic, and exchanges in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as Nasdaq Baltic.
Nasdaq aligned its business into three new divisions — Market Platforms, Capital Access Platforms and Anti-FinancialCrime. This should allow Nasdaq to capitalize on mega trends shaping the financial system in order to unlock new growth opportunities.
Market Platforms that includes Trading Services and Market Technology focuses on accelerating digitalization and moving toward cloud. Capital Access Platforms includes Data & Listing Services, Index and Workflow and Insights and focuses on improving intelligence, efficiency and access to capital markets. Anti-FinancialCrime focuses on protecting the financial system.
Nasdaq made a 3-for-1 stock split in the form of a stock dividend effective Aug 29, 2022.