Tagged: nasdaq

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

October 18, 2020 @ 10:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paya,  a U.S.-based integrated payment and commerce solutions provider, announced on Friday it is set to make its debut on Nasdaq this Monday (October 19th). Paya reported its common stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “PAYA.” Paya claims… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Emma Channing  |  

Back in December, I wrote a piece for Coindesk’s Year in Review 2019 entitled “Security Token Offerings Are (Finally) Set for Takeoff in 2020”.  This was before word of COVID-19 became widespread and before many of the cataclysmic events of 2020 were even imaginable.  Thus… Read More

October 2, 2020 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, announced on Thursday it has listed and began trading on Nasdaq. Diginex reported that it will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “EQOS,” where it will offer investors the opportunity to participate in the growth of… Read More

August 17, 2020 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance reveals that if you had invested $1,000 on Jan 1,  2020, in both Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock and Bitcoin (BTC), you would have earned significantly more from your Amazon holdings, when compared to the price appreciation of the leading digital currency. However,… Read More

July 13, 2020 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jonah Schulman, head of marketing at Security Token Market, notes that the “main catalyst” for the substantial growth in the security token market, during June 2020, was the 96% surge in the Overstock (OSTKO) security token trading on tZERO. Schulman pointed out that at the… Read More

June 27, 2020 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese firm Ebang, a leading developer of cryptocurrency mining hardware, confirmed on June 26, 2020, that it had been listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (under the EBON ticker). Notably, Ebang is only the second Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer to go public on a US… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Lex – an Oneline Marketplace for Real Estate Securities Real estate investment has historically been a challenging sector of opportunity for smaller investors. If you want to go it alone it takes a lot of time and knowledge to flip houses or rent flats. Of… Read More

June 23, 2020 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

nCino is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) as the company has filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating its intent to trade shares on an exchange. nCino is a Wilmington, North Carolina based Fintech that offers a cloud banking… Read More

March 12, 2020 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Nasdaq stock exchange has reportedly acquired Solovis, an asset management company. The acquisition by the world’s second-largest stock exchange by market cap will complement its 2017 purchase of eVestment, a buy-side analytics platform. There are more than 600 institutional clients that use the… Read More

December 26, 2019 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE), the stock exchange of China’s leading technology hub Shenzhen city, has introduced an index that tracks the performance of the country’s top 50 blockchain startups. As noted in an announcement on December 24, the performance index will be based on… Read More

December 16, 2019 @ 12:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

XP (Nasdaq: XP), a digital brokerage and wealth management company based in Brazil, announced on Friday it closed its initial public offering (IPO) of 83,387237 of its Class A common shares at a public offering price of $27 per share. XP reported that it issued and… Read More

December 10, 2019 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

DSTLD (or Digital Brands Group), a fashion brand and direct to consumer e-retailer, is preparing to close its Reg A+ investment crowdfunding offer hosted on StartEngine. Once the offer closes, DSTLD appears to be ready to try and list its shares on NASDAQ, according to… Read More

October 15, 2019 @ 8:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

NASDAQ has listed its first crypto index – the CIX100 from Cryptoindex.com. The index is made up of cryptocurrencies selected from a list of over 2500 coins and rebalanced on a continuous basis. Cryptoindex is quick to point out that they exclude “coins with fake… Read More

August 1, 2019 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

China Finance Online Co. Limited NASDAQ GS:JRJC), a web-based financial services company that provides Chinese retail investors with fintech-powered online access to securities trading services, wealth management products, securities investment advisory services, as well as financial database and analytics services to institutional customers, announced on… Read More

June 21, 2019 @ 10:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a couple of months after the revamping of Robinhood Gold, Robinhood announced Nasdaq Level 2 Market Data has been added to the premium feature, which includes other research reports and margin investing. Robinhood revealed for only $5 a month, users will receive all new… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Banq, a digital platform that is part of investment bank Tripoint Global, is raising capital for Helbiz in advance of a planned initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq. Simultaneously, the shares are expected to list and trade on AIM Italia in what is being described… Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Nasdaq has partnered with CryptoCompare to launch a new cryptocurrency pricing product: the Nasdaq/CryptoCompare Aggregate Crypto Reference Prices. The new product will be available on the Quandl platform, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nasdaq, headquartered in Toronto, that provides alternative data for financial professionals. Quandl… 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