Nasdaq risk platform for capital markets

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance (SMARTS)

    The most widely used surveillance technology by regulators and exchanges globally.

    Our platform supports every stage of your surveillance program - from real-time monitoring and alerting to case management, investigations, and reporting. 

    Purpose-built to handle both scale and nuance, it ensures broad coverage across asset classes, markets, while remaining low-touch on your internal resources. 

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    CFTC Modernizes Market Surveillance with Nasdaq

    Former Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham explains how the CFTC is modernizing its regulatory approach by partnering with Nasdaq.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Key Benefits

    Key Benefits

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    AI That Knows What Matters


    Our platform incorporates AI and machine learning to detect anomalies, prioritize risk, and surface the most relevant cases. 
    This risk-based, behavioral approach allows teams to tailor surveillance thresholds to their unique risk appetite—empowering more focused and effective compliance. 

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    Unmatched Accuracy: High True Positives, Low False Positives


    Our platform significantly reduces false positives by integrating and analyzing complete and disparate datasets.
    In combination with our powerful analytics, our data approach ensures alerts are context-rich resulting in faster, more confident decision-making. 

    Asset Class Coverage

    Equities

    Fixed Income

    Commodities

    Benchmarks

    Derivatives

    FX

    Energy/ Power

    OTC

    Digital Assets

    Cryptocurrency

    Swaps

    Carbon

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Features

    Visualize, Reconstruct and Understand Market Events Like Never Before

    Streamlined Investigations with the Power of Evidence Cards

    At the heart of our platform is the Investigation Canvas—an intuitive, visual workspace populated with Evidence Cards. These cards summarize key insights using AI, pulling together internal data, historical behavior, external references while contextualizing the anomalies visually. Whether visualized patterns with graphical interfaces or natural language summaries powered by large language models, each card empowers investigators to act swiftly and confidently.

     

     

    Reconstruct the Full Trading Picture

    Replay is one of our most powerful features: the ability to rebuild the entire order book over any given timeframe. Investigators can trace market activity in granular detail—down to individual orders and trades—creating a comprehensive historical view that brings clarity to complex cases.

    Comprehensive Orderbook Data

    • Rebuild the entire orderbook, not just partial time periods
    • Complete historical trading data and alerts are accessible and exportable
    • Spoofing scenarios track every order and their impact on the orderbook resulting in unparalleled alerting accuracy

    Visualization & Alerting Expertise

    • Powerful Visualization depicting volatility and order book manipulation
    • Alert calibration tools to fine-tune parameters
    • Create your own custom alerts in safe environment with deep data access

    Why Choose Nasdaq Market Surveillance

    Protect Market Participants and Investors

    Keep markets safe, uphold regulatory standards and maintain integrity throughout your jurisdiction to more effectively protect investors.

    Maintain Competitive Edge

    Build trust and transparency within your market to help attract liquidity and drive growth in an increasingly competitive market environment.

    Focus on What Matters

    Leverage a robust and flexible workflow, supported by data analysis and visualization tools, to reduce operational complexity and focus on what matters – protecting markets.

    Ensure Regulatory Compliance

    Benefit from the expertise of Nasdaq’s own regulatory teams, as well as our large network of customers across a broad set of jurisdictions, which is continuously integrated into the product.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Buyer Segment

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance is the market monitoring solution of choice for traditional and start up markets, central banks and financial regulators world-wide.

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    Cross-market, cross-asset, multi-venue

    Surveillance solution, with proven capabilities that help to ensure marketplace integrity and protect investors.

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    Traditional Exchanges

    Power your surveillance with the same technology trusted by 50+ of the world’s largest exchanges to maintain market integrity and drive investor protection.

    Crypto Exchanges

    Safeguard your crypto exchange with robust risk management controls and comply with regulation as it evolves with little impact to latency.

    Regulators

    Rapidly adapt your surveillance program to evolve with the market and address complex challenges surrounding new trading methodologies, additional asset classes and increasing data volumes.

    Central Banks

    Help drive economic stability and liquidity with trusted surveillance technology that enables you to monitor across asset classes and markets.

    Alternative Trading Venues

    Effectively monitor the order flow of alternative trading venues or internalized platforms with surveillance capabilities tailored to your unique needs.

    Traditional Exchanges

    Power your surveillance with the same technology trusted by 50+ of the world’s largest exchanges to maintain market integrity and drive investor protection.

    Crypto Exchanges

    Safeguard your crypto exchange with robust risk management controls and comply with regulation as it evolves with little impact to latency.

    Regulators

    Rapidly adapt your surveillance program to evolve with the market and address complex challenges surrounding new trading methodologies, additional asset classes and increasing data volumes.

    Central Banks

    Help drive economic stability and liquidity with trusted surveillance technology that enables you to monitor across asset classes and markets.

    Alternative Trading Venues

    Effectively monitor the order flow of alternative trading venues or internalized platforms with surveillance capabilities tailored to your unique needs.

    Are you prepared for the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation?

    With MiCA scheduled to go into effect in the EU, firms will encounter stricter surveillance requirements once the regulation is implemented. See how Nasdaq can support you in preparing before the deadline.

    With MiCA scheduled to go into effect in the EU, firms will encounter stricter surveillance requirements once the regulation is implemented. See how Nasdaq can support you in preparing before the deadline.

    Thought Leadership

    Don’t miss the latest surveillance news, industry trends and regulatory updates.

    2024-25 Nasdaq Cryptocurrency Regulation Guide

    Read the 2024-25 Nasdaq Cryptocurrency Regulation Guide to see:

    • A breakdown of 5 key regulatory trends
    • Updates from global organizations like FATF, FSB and IOSCO
    • A snapshot of regional frameworks and compliance challenges

    Read the 2024-25 Nasdaq Cryptocurrency Regulation Guide to see:

    • A breakdown of 5 key regulatory trends
    • Updates from global organizations like FATF, FSB and IOSCO
    • A snapshot of regional frameworks and compliance challenges

    Additional Resources

    Survey Report

    2024 Nasdaq Global Compliance Survey

    In collaboration with Chartis Research, Nasdaq surveyed 94 compliance professionals to determine their top challenges in the year ahead, the role of emerging technologies, the power of data scientists and technology staff, and the trends of regulatory-focused investments.

    Press Release

    Bitvavo Adopts Nasdaq Market Surveillance to Enhance Integrity of its Digital Asset Exchange

    With this partnership, Bitvavo is seeking to further enhance the trust, transparency, and integrity of its marketplace by enabling its compliance framework to keep pace with the rapid growth and development of the business.

    Press Release

    Indonesia Stock Exchange Partners with Nasdaq to Upgrade Market Infrastructure

    The technology partnership will further enhance overall resilience and integrity of the exchange, while supporting the rapid deployment of new products and services. The scalable trading platform will quadruple transaction capacity and support development of the Indonesian economy.

    Factsheet

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Factsheet

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance has nearly 30 years of experience as the industry benchmark for real-time and T+1, cross-market, cross-asset surveillance. Owning and operating 30+ venues enables Nasdaq to provide customers with unique surveillance advisory and best meet each client’s distinct surveillance needs.

    30+
    Years of surveillance expertise

    50+
    Marketplaces globally

    20
    Regulators Globally

    Nasdaq Tech Stories

    Nasdaq TradeTalks With ADX
    Saker Asllan, Chief Operations Officer of the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Faycal Belyazid, Head of Business Development & Sales - Middle East & Africa at Nasdaq, join Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss capital markets in Abu Dhabi and the recent launch of ADX’s enhanced trading and post-trade services platform.
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    Nasdaq has been recognized at the Chartis RiskTech100 Awards, showcasing Nasdaq’s commitment to building resilience and trust in financial markets through unified solutions and ongoing innovation.

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    Nasdaq Compliance Hub

    Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving global market landscape by navigating the latest market abuse regulations and complex market dynamics across multiple jurisdictions.

    Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving global market landscape by navigating the latest market abuse regulations and complex market dynamics across multiple jurisdictions.

    Nasdaq Anti-Financial Crime Solutions for Cryptocurrency

    Effectively mitigate risks across traditional and digital assets, fiat and crypto, and on and off-chain activities with a comprehensive suite of crypto-specific monitoring capabilities.

    Effectively mitigate risks across traditional and digital assets, fiat and crypto, and on and off-chain activities with a comprehensive suite of crypto-specific monitoring capabilities.

    Verafin: BSA/AML Compliance and Management

    Strengthen regulatory compliance and enhance your ability to detect, investigate and report potentially suspicious activity with targeted analytics and end-to-end BSA/AML solutions.

    Strengthen regulatory compliance and enhance your ability to detect, investigate and report potentially suspicious activity with targeted analytics and end-to-end BSA/AML solutions.

    Nasdaq Trade Surveillance

    Proactively detect market abuse and comply with regulations with time-tested and comprehensive cross-market, cross-asset trade surveillance technology.

    Proactively detect market abuse and comply with regulations with time-tested and comprehensive cross-market, cross-asset trade surveillance technology.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance is one of the most robust surveillance tools on the market. Rather than offer discrete pieces of software with single, directed functionalities, Nasdaq Market Surveillance presents a far-ranging suite of features, preparing you to track criminal activity across markets, asset classes, and venues.

    The solution also benefits from Nasdaq’s unique position as a longtime global operator of 17 exchanges, who help to drive product innovation to evolve with the market. Our large customer network and fluid collaboration with Nasdaq’s own markets enable us to continuously to keep the product at the forefront of regulatory change.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance has the best track record and recognition among regulators, continual investment, a large community of users and the most comprehensive handling of different trading models and asset classes.

    Equities, derivatives, cryptocurrency and digital assets, carbon credits, swaps, fixed income, FX, commodities, commercial real estate, electricity, and more. Nasdaq’s trading and surveillance technology is reliable and scalable, allowing you to grow and expand with the addition of new asset types as needed.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance provides markets and regulators with a robust platform to detect potentially abusive trading behaviors. Sophisticated algorithms detect patterns of abuse, market manipulation and insider trading, enabling surveillance analysts to filter only events of interest. Nasdaq Market Surveillance technology provides 70+ pre-configured alerts as well as the ability for users to tailor alerting algorithms to create their own ad hoc alerts. The system offers intuitive case focused visualizations as well as case management to help assess and manage each case.