Nasdaq Places #5 in the Chartis RiskTech100 2025

Nasdaq Joins the Top Five

Nasdaq is honored to rank #5 in the Chartis RiskTech100 2025, the world's foremost ranking of the top 100 risk management technology providers, for its Regulatory Technology, Capital Markets Technology, Financial Crime Management, and Corporate Governance and Sustainability solutions offerings. Nasdaq also won awards in the categories of Managed Services: Financial Crime for Nasdaq Verafin and Regulatory Reporting: Markets and Securities for Nasdaq AxiomSL.

An Ecosystem in Flux Requires Strong Partners

In today's fast-paced landscape, the convergence of technology advancements, evolving and accelerating regulatory initiatives, and stringent capital requirements show no signs of deceleration. This relentless momentum underscores the necessity for organizations to pivot amidst a volatile business environment shaped by incessant macroeconomic challenges. Relying on legacy technology and siloed systems exacerbates complexity, undermines agility, and heightens operational risks and inefficiencies. The need for integrated, forward-thinking solutions has never been more critical. Modernization is table stakes.

Transformation of Nasdaq: Trusted Platform Provider to the Global Financial System

For over 30 years, Nasdaq has been at the forefront of providing institutional-grade, scalable, and resilient capital markets and regulatory technology solutions to the financial infrastructure and sell-side community, as well as governance and ESG solutions to investors and corporates. This long-standing presence has positioned Nasdaq uniquely at the intersection of investors, corporations, banks, brokers, buy-side institutions, market operators, and regulators. This vantage point has afforded us unparalleled insights into the core needs of our constituents:

• Comply – Organizations require partners who can mitigate the surging costs and obligations associated with regulatory compliance, while also adhering to stringent liquidity and capital requirements. Solutions that ease the operational burden of new and evolving regulations and optimize liquidity and capital are in high demand.
• Protect – As financial crime and cybersecurity risks escalate, there is a growing need for robust solutions that can help safeguard organizations against these threats. Effective operations, technology controls and strategies are essential to thwart nefarious activity, maintain regulatory compliance, and ensure business continuity.
• Simplify – There is a critical need for capabilities that allow organizations to manage increasing business complexities, dismantle internal silos, and minimize financial and operational risks.
• Modernize – Staying ahead of disruptive forces, including competitive pressures and technological advancements, is a formidable challenge amid rising cost pressures and the difficulties of talent retention and acquisition.

Nasdaq’s responsibility to minimize complexity for clients, reduce friction, improve resiliency and drive growth contributed to the expansion of the Nasdaq technology capabilities into risk, regulatory reporting, and financial crime management with the strategic acquisitions of Verafin and Adenza (now Nasdaq AxiomSL and Nasdaq Calypso).

"Nasdaq’s acquisitions, individually and collectively, provide comprehensive coverage of the transaction lifecycle, and are appropriately supported with a strong technology and service framework. Indeed, the breadth of its capabilities has moved it into the top five in the risk technology space.” --Sidhartha Dash, Chief Researcher, Chartis Research