From Idea to Live Investment Product

Overview

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Derivatives Strategy Development Platform

Rapidly design, test, and refine systematic options-based strategies using institutional-grade tools purpose-built for derivatives and QIS workflows.

Nasdaq’s platform:

• enables rapid, customizable backtesting
• aims to provide transparency through analytical dashboards and visualizations
• encourages collaborative strategy development
• allows for efficient conversion of investment insights into tradeable strategies

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Options-Based Indexes

Access Nasdaq’s established index development and production capabilities which support a wide range of derivatives-based investment objectives such as income generation, defined outcome, and autocallable payouts.

These indexes are:

• built on transparent, rules-based methodologies
• calculated and disseminated through Nasdaq’s index ecosystem
• scalable building blocks for ETPs, SMAs, and structured products

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Volatility Control Indexes

Access Nasdaq’s systematic, risk-managed indexes designed to target defined volatility levels through dynamic exposure adjustment.

Nasdaq's volatility control indexes:

• employ a wide range of methods to measure and implement target volatility exposures
• are calculated and rebalanced daily or intraday
• underpin a wide range of insurance-linked products

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Nasdaq-100 Index® Options

Access Nasdaq’s index options to gain exposure to the Nasdaq-100® and implement a range of investment strategies. Nasdaq-100® Index Options:

• are European-style and cash-settled, simplifying settlement and avoiding early assignment risk
• offer flexibility through multiple contract sizes and a range of expirations
• may provide potential tax advantages depending on investor circumstances

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52k+

Strategies Built on the Platform

$300B+

Avg. Daily Notional Trading Volume in NDX® Options

$48B+

AUM Tracking Nasdaq QIS Indexes

Who We Serve

ETP Issuers

Design and launch differentiated systematic strategies for options-based ETPs. Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions supports both active and passive managers with strategy development, index creation, administration, and delivery with production-ready analytics suitable for sales, marketing, and regulatory use cases.

Asset Managers

Empower multi-asset, quantitative, and wealth-focused teams to integrate derivatives-based strategies within broader portfolio frameworks. Nasdaq supports evaluation, risk analysis, and scaling of strategies across all fund structures, SMAs, and institutional mandates.

Bank QIS Teams

Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions enables transparent, collaborative QIS development between banks and their clients using powerful strategy development software designed specifically to test assumptions, refine payoff profiles, and align structuring objectives. We support the co creation of bespoke indexes, efficiently converting shared investment ideas into licensable products traded via swaps, structured notes, and other linked solutions.

Asset Owners and Insurers

Nasdaq provides pensions, institutional allocators, and insurers with independent tools to evaluate derivatives-based strategies, validate transaction cost assumptions in bank-offered QIS, and license volatility-controlled and risk-managed indexes for insurance-linked offerings.

Benefits

Our Value Proposition

Full Strategy Transparency

Gain a comprehensive understanding of strategy dynamics with supporting analytical output such as Historical Greek Attribution, Income and Cost Metrics, and Advanced PnL Attribution.

Intraday Index Capability

Design cutting-edge options-based indexes which can select new positions, rebalance, calculate, and disseminate utilizing intraday data.

Harness the Nasdaq-100® (NDX®)

Leverage the market-leading Nasdaq-100 Index® and the vast NDX index options ecosystem. Partner with Nasdaq and its proven expertise at launching successful derivatives-focused products.

Features

Featured Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions Indexes

Autocallable Replication

Nasdaq-100 35% Volatility Compass 6D Autocallable A™ Index (NXA35C6A™)

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Daily Income Generation

Nasdaq-100 Daily Covered Calls™ Index (NDXDCC™)

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Multi-Asset Volatility Control

Nasdaq Generations 5™ Index (NDXGEN5™)

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Hedged Income and Delta Replication

Nasdaq InspereX Dynamic Buffered High Income™ Index (NDXDBHI™)

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Convertible Fixed Income Replication

Nasdaq-100 Top 30 Hybrid Income™ Index (NDXTTHI™)

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FAQs

What asset classes does Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions support?

Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions provides coverage of U.S.-listed index, ETP, and single-stock options across multiple data vendors. Strategies can reference either intraday or end-of-day input data.

How does Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions support issuers utilizing a swap counterparty during product development?

Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions can be a key partner in the early ideation and prototyping phase of a new strategy idea. We work closely with issuer clients and bank QIS teams to design and implement transparent rules-based approaches which fulfill the client’s desired investment objectives and have results that can be easily reconciled and replicated by the bank. We then formalize these rules as a Nasdaq administered index and supply the necessary data ongoing in the delivery format and frequency required for the live product.

Can backtests designed in Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions’ platform be used as benchmarks for investment products?

Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions offers clients of the platform the ability to publish their developed strategies as benchmarks which can be used for sales and marketing purposes.

What types of investment products can Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions support?

Nasdaq Derivatives Solutions supports a broad range of institutional products, including ETFs, UCITS funds, mutual funds, SMAs, swaps, structured notes, and insurance‑linked products such as Fixed-Indexed Annuity (FIAs) and Registered Index-Linked Annuities (RILAs).