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June 15, 2023 @ 3:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ), a technology company serving the global financial system, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Adenza, a provider of mission-critical risk management and regulatory software to the financial services industry, from Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm,… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced that it is “organizing its business units into three divisions: Market Platforms, Capital Access Platforms, and Anti-Financial Crime.” This new structure will “align the company more closely to the foundational shifts that are driving the evolution of the global financial… Read More

November 9, 2020 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adena Friedman, CEO at Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange with a market cap of around $17 trillion, notes that the COVID-19 pandemic is “fundamentally accelerating” the adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. According to Friedman, the current environment has also led to the increased usage… Read More

October 25, 2020 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adena Friedman, President and CEO of Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange with a market cap of over $17 trillion, says that emerging technologies (Emtech) continue to “drive the evolution” of capital markets.  As covered, Friedman believes that Cloud technologies will transform financial services and… Read More

October 23, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adena Friedman, President and CEO of Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange with a market cap of over $17 trillion, says that Nasdaq began transforming financial markets with the launch of the very first electronic stock market back in 1971. Friedman notes: “From day one,… Read More

April 22, 2019 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman sat down with CNBC to discuss the initial public offering market. Recently, multiple high profile issuers have completed an IPO or have indicated their intent to do so in the not so distant future. On the day Friedman was… Read More

October 15, 2018 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fidelity, a nearly seventy year old financial firm with $7.2 trillion in assets under management, announced its entry into blockchain based finance today with the launch of Fidelity Digital Assets. The vision is to offer institutional quality trading in crypto while providing a superior level … Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 11:25 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of stock marketplace and benchmark index for US tech stocks, Nasdaq, has come down hard on the opportunism of issuers of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), whom she believes are “taking advantage” of retail investors, CNBC reports. An initial coin offering is a relatively… Read More

April 25, 2018 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

This should really come as no surprise. NASDAQ is open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange. The regulated exchange says it is already providing its technology to other crypto exchanges so taking the additional step would not be that difficult. Speaking on CNBC today, NASDAQ CEO… Read More

May 4, 2017 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Adena Friedman, CEO of NASDAQ, has published an Op-Ed on WSJ.com. Her topic of discussion is the challenging IPO market in the US. This is a frequent issue of debate as the decline of IPOs has been going on for years. Both elected and appointed… Read More

January 3, 2017 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman visited the new CNBC digs today to welcome the morning show pundits to NASDAQ and chat up her company’s vision. Friedman, previously President & COO of NASDAQ, became the CEO on January 1st. Friedman stated, “we are both an exchange operator… Read More