Nasdaq, Inc.

The Nasdaq, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology, market infrastructure, and exchange operator that provides trading, clearing, market surveillance, financial data, and capital market technology services. Headquartered in New York City, the company traces its origins to the establishment of the Nasdaq Stock Market in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). Following a series of organizational restructurings and public offerings, Nasdaq became an independent publicly traded company in 2002 under the name The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.. It adopted the name Nasdaq OMX Group after acquiring OMX AB in 2008 and was renamed Nasdaq, Inc. in 2015 to reflect its evolution into a diversified global financial technology enterprise. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol NDAQ and is a constituent of the NASDAQ-100.

Nasdaq, Inc. operates a broad portfolio of securities exchanges and market infrastructure businesses across North America and Europe. Its principal operations include the Nasdaq Stock Market, as well as stock exchanges in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. The company provides trading venues for equities, derivatives, fixed-income securities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, and other financial instruments. In addition to exchange operations, Nasdaq supplies clearing, settlement support, market surveillance systems, regulatory technology (RegTech), anti-financial crime solutions, and cloud-based software used by exchanges, regulators, central securities depositories, and financial institutions in numerous countries.

Beyond exchange operations, Nasdaq develops financial data, index products, and technology platforms that support global capital markets. The company maintains benchmark indices including the NASDAQ Composite, the NASDAQ-100, and numerous sectoral, thematic, and fixed-income indices through Nasdaq Global Indexes. Its market technology division provides trading engines, clearing platforms, digital governance solutions, investor relations software, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tools, and market surveillance systems adopted by exchanges and regulators worldwide. Nasdaq has also expanded into areas such as digital assets, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and sustainability reporting through strategic acquisitions and technology partnerships.

Nasdaq, Inc. serves exchanges, broker-dealers, asset managers, listed companies, institutional investors, governments, and regulatory authorities in more than 50 countries. It works closely with organizations including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to support transparent, resilient, and efficient capital markets. Through its combination of exchange operations, financial data, regulatory technology, and market infrastructure services, Nasdaq has become one of the world's leading providers of financial market technology and a central participant in the global securities industry.