What we do

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company delivering trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents. It is the premier choice for over 3,900 industry-leading companies from 39 countries representing all industry sectors. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic and U.S. 144A. Upon regulatory approval, our newest planned listing venue will be in London. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and Baltic are not a legal entity but describes the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius.

NASDAQ OMX offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. Our newest trading platform - NASDAQ OMX Europe - is the first to connect European liquidity pools with Pan-European routing, enabling best execution in high volume securities trading in a cross-border, multimarket environment.

NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.

Over 3,900 companies in 39 countries representing $4.6 trillion in total market value

• The world’s biggest IT industry exchange, with a total market value in the IT sector at over $2 trillion.
• The world’s biggest biotech industry exchange, with total market value at almost $270 billion.
• The world’s biggest paper product industry exchange at a market value over $32 billion.

Years of industry skills creating a powerful, global brand that is a driving force leading technology development in the exchange business

• NASDAQ OMX is the world’s largest provider of technology for the exchange industry — providing technology to 70+ exchanges spanning six continents.

Unparalleled technology and transparency for trading

• NASDAQ OMX data is accessed by more than two million users in 83 countries.
• NASDAQ’s average transaction execution speed in 2008 was less than one millisecond.
• NASDAQ OMX powers every 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions.
• NASDAQ OMX Nordic and Baltic had a market share of 7.2% of the total orderbook trading in Europe in August 2008.
• NASDAQ had 29.1% of US Equities market share in August 2008.

NASDAQ OMX Corporate Services provide companies access to innovative products and services that facilitate transparency, mitigate risk, maximize Board efficiency and inspire better corporate governance

• 700+ companies have purchased over 1,500 different corporate product and services in the last year.

Multi-asset, multi-service capabilities across the globe in trading, clearing, listing, information services and trading technology

• During the Russell Reconstitution in June 2008, NASDAQ Closing Cross set records for the fifth year with a total of 893.3 million shares executed representing $12.0 billion.
• On September 16, 2008, a record of 2,167,567 contracts were traded on the derivatives market of NASDAQ OMX Nordic.

Total Market Cap of Companies that Switched to NASDAQ from the NYSE in 2008:

• $ 52.6 billion

Top 2008 Performing Indexes:

• NASDAQ OMX Biotechnology Index returned 6.11%.
• OMR Real return Bond Index returned 5.3%.