Quick Facts

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with approximately 3,700 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries

• NASDAQ OMX is number one geographically in major-worldwide listings, with approximately 3,700 companies in 50 countries representing $4.5 trillion in total market value.
  • The world's largest IT industry exchange, with a total market value over $2 trillion.
  • The world's largest biotech industry exchange, with total market value at almost $270 billion.
  • The world's largest paper product industry (part of the materials sector) exchange at a market value over $32 billion.
• NASDAQ and OMX bring years of industry skills together, 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 over 70 exchanges spanning six continents. 
• NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions provides companies access to innovative products and services that facilitate transparency, mitigate risk and inspire better corporate governance.
  • Over 700 companies have purchased over 1500 different corporate products and services in the last year. 
• NASDAQ OMX has 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 1 in every 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 has 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. 

 NASDAQ OMX Businesses:

Global Data Products – Committed to providing investors, portfolio managers, broker/dealers and registered representatives with the highest quality data, NASDAQ OMX Global Data products are powerful tools that enable unparalleled market transparency to help users make better-informed and more confident trading decisions.

Global Index Group – Leveraging world-renowned brand and market position, NASDAQ OMX Global Index Group is one of the world’s leading index providers operating as an exchange. Through full-scale, premium index services the Global Index Group expands trading and investment opportunities by creating innovative indexes for investors worldwide.

Listings-Corporate Client Group – With NASDAQ OMX being the market of choice for industry-leading companies, the Corporate Client Group is dedicated to providing listed companies with unmatched customer service, visibility and market intelligence.

Transaction Services Nordics – An integrated marketplace of seven independent Nordic and Baltic exchanges, the Nordic Exchange, is investors’ preferred access point to the Nordic and Baltic securities markets. The Nordic Exchange offers trading of Nordic and Baltic securities-shares, derivatives and fixed income products, all traded on highly efficient trading systems enabling easy cross border trading.

Transaction Services U.S. –  NASDAQ OMX Transaction Services, U.S. strives to continually meet market participant’s business requirements through innovative markets, all of which run on the exemplary INET technology. Our state-of-the-art routing capabilities and outstanding customer service are just a few of the reasons why firms turn to NASDAQ OMX for trading equities, options and futures in the U.S. Additionally, we offer market participants forward-thinking, end-to-end products to help them succeed in the ever-changing marketplace.

Corporate Solutions – Listed companies have access to innovative products and services through a robust group of strategic alliance partners that help NASDAQ- and OMX-listed companies by facilitating transparency, mitigating risk and inspiring better corporate governance.

Market Technology – NASDAQ OMX offers technology solutions designed to support business strategies and help master change in the highly demanding financial markets — whether it is to expand operations, gain cost base advantages, generate new revenue sources, take advantage of new standards or meet changing regulator requirements.

NASDAQ OMX Europe – is a multilateral trading facility that offers highly competitive pricing and is the first platform to connect European liquidity pools with pan-European routing. It runs on a proven low latency matching engine (INET) which is designed for high performance trading. Approximately 1,200 securities are traded on NASDAQ OMX Europe including constituents of the main European indices, ETFs and other highly liquid securities.