IT Services

NASDAQ OMX offers CSDs an clearing organizations a complete range of marketplace IT operation and infrastructure services. With domain expertise in the exchange industry, few providers can match NASDAQ OMX’s unparalleled operations management expertise, existing infrastructure, outstanding track record and proven technology. We know the securities business and understand how to process financial instruments.

From software implementation to ongoing maintenance, NASDAQ OMX provides 24x7 service desk support and network surveillance that goes far beyond traditional technical support. As a marketplace owner, NASDAQ OMX understands your business in a way that a typical software vendor cannot. As a result, we structure our service agreements to address your business parameters and use our expertise to view how each incident could affect the entire transaction chain. In this way, we are often able to proactively avert potential future problems.
 
In addition, with 12 data centers throughout the world and a global core network, NASDAQ OMX can host entire operations – taking responsibility for the operation, maintenance and surveillance of central clearing and settlement systems and the entire associated technical infrastructure. We have proven processes to support requirements for extreme availability and the flexibility to handle the high pace of change.

Currently, NASDAQ OMX operates more than 15 marketplaces around the world, enabling efficient securities transactions. As an example, NASDAQ OMX has hosted the derivatives clearing and CSD systems for SFE Clearing / SFE Austraclear since 2002.

Examples of IT services

• IT services for running cash and derivatives marketplaces for the Nordic Exchange
• IT operations and support for a global fixed income market
• Implementation, IT operations and support for a leading European power exchange
• Software and software support for several major stock exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region
• Hosting of derivatives clearing and CSD systems for one of the leading futures and options exchanges in Australasia