Quick Facts

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.is the world’s largest exchange company with trading, technology and public company service capabilities that reach across six continents.

NASDAQ OMX globally covers the widest geography with its large number of company listings and executes more transactions than any other exchange. Owning exchanges in North America and Europe, NASDAQ OMX serves as a trading venue for multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs, in addition to supporting the development and operations of more than 60 exchanges in over 50 countries around the world. Through offices in over 20 countries, NASDAQ OMX delivers services and forward-thinking technology with the power to drive capital formation, transform business and fuel economic growth around the world.

• NASDAQ OMX is number one geographically in major-worldwide listings, with over 3,900 companies in 39 countries representing $5.3 trillion in total market value.
  • The world's largest IT industry exchange, with a total market value in the IT sector at over $2 trillion.
  • The world's largest biotech industry exchange, with total market value at almost $250 billion.
  • The world's largest paper product industry (part of the materials sector) exchange at a market value over $50 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 60 exchanges spanning
    six continents. 
• NASDAQ OMX public company services provide 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 product and service offerings in the last year. 
• NASDAQ OMX has unparalleled technology and transparency for trading.
  • NASDAQ OMX data is accessed by more than two million users in 83 countries.
  • The average transaction execution speed on NASDAQ in 2007 was less than one millisecond.
  • NASDAQ OMX powers 1 in every 10 of the world's securities transactions.
  • OMX Nordic Exchange had a market share of 6% of the total orderbook trading in Europe in January 2008.
  • NASDAQ had 49% of U.S. equities market share in January 2008. 
• NASDAQ OMX has multi-asset, multi-service capabilities across the globe in trading, clearing, listing, information services and trading technology.
  • During the Russell Index rebalance in June 2007, NASDAQ's Closing Cross set records with a total of 678.5 million shares executed in 1.9 seconds representing $11.7 billion.
  • On April 21, 2006, OMX saw a record of 1,989,325 contracts on the derivatives market of the Nordic Exchange.

NASDAQ OMX Business Areas

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

Financial Products – Leveraging world-renowned brand and market position, NASDAQ OMX Financial Products is one of the world’s leading index providers operating as an exchange. Through full-scale, premium index services NASDAQ OMX Financial Products 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. – The U.S. trading platform for NASDAQ OMX is a fully integrated order display, execution and trade reporting system for all NASDAQ-, NYSE- and Amex-listed securities. As the fastest trading platform available, it accommodates diverse business model and trading preferences.

Corporate Services – 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.

The PORTAL Alliance – The PORTAL Alliance is a trading and transfer system for privately placed equity securities that is being developed by NASDAQ and a number of financial institutions.

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.

European Growth Market – Currently in development, NASDAQ OMX is establishing this market to manage pan-European initiatives.