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 approximately 3,700 industry-leading companies from 50 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 NASDAQ OMX First North. 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.

Approximately 3,700 companies in 50 countries representing $4.5 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

• One global high-speed trading platform, INET, utilized in all our equities markets across the world.
• The INET platform is capable of handling more than 1 million messages per second at sub-250 microsecond average speeds.
• NASDAQ OMX powers every 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions.
• NASDAQ OMX data is accessed by more than two million users in 83 countries.
• During the Russell Reconstitution in June 2009, NASDAQ Closing Cross set records for the sixth year with a total of 1.002 billion shares executed in NASDAQ-listed stocks, representing $9.2 billion in 2.9 seconds.

NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions 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

• NASDAQ had an average 21,3% of U.S. Equities matched market share in 2009.
• Last year, NASDAQ OMX launched NASDAQ OMX BX and expanded NASDAQ OMX Commodities.
• NASDAQ OMX operates the third-largest U.S. options trading venue with The NASDAQ Options Market and NASDAQ OMX PHLX.
• In January 2010, NASDAQ OMX Stockholm traded a record number of shares.
• NASDAQ OMX acquired the Philadelphia Board of Trade, which is now the NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange.

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

• $ 78 billion

Top 2008 Performing Indexes:

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