Whitepaper: Market Infrastructure Modernization

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    Marketplace services platform for emerging markets

    Marketplace Services Platform

    Nasdaq's proven exchange technology and expertise in agile, adaptable form.

    Nasdaq’s Marketplace Services Platform helps financial exchanges, cryptocurrency and digital assets markets of many varieties attract liquidity and drive efficient, transparent trading at scale with institutional-grade technology.

     

    Get to market quickly and reliably with proven, trusted technology

    Whether you are a new digital assets market or an established exchange in digital or capital markets, the Marketplace Services Platform provides the reliability, scalability, and proven trading and market surveillance capabilities of Nasdaq’s longstanding market infrastructure technology so that you can activate new revenue streams faster and launch your market venture with confidence.

    With Nasdaq, you can experience the freedom of working at the edge of new digital assets innovation, knowing you are backed by Nasdaq’s vetted technology and markets operations expertise, robust customer service, and road-tested security protocols.

    Whether you are a new digital assets market or an established exchange in digital or capital markets, the Marketplace Services Platform provides the reliability, scalability, and proven trading and market surveillance capabilities of Nasdaq’s longstanding market infrastructure technology so that you can activate new revenue streams faster and launch your market venture with confidence.

    With Nasdaq, you can experience the freedom of working at the edge of new digital assets innovation, knowing you are backed by Nasdaq’s vetted technology and markets operations expertise, robust customer service, and road-tested security protocols.

    Leave the heavy lifting to us

    Purpose-built to operate multi-party negotiation and trading, and surveillance oversight to protect markets, our specialized SaaS marketplace platform manages the heavy lifting of operating markets so you can focus on your strategy, not on complex operations.

    Purpose-built to operate multi-party negotiation and trading, and surveillance oversight to protect markets, our specialized SaaS marketplace platform manages the heavy lifting of operating markets so you can focus on your strategy, not on complex operations.

    Reliably scale to meet marketplace demands

    Handle the ebbs and flows of markets – even during times of peak volatility with ease.

    Leverage Nasdaq’s trusted market surveillance technology to detect and disrupt fraudulent and potentially criminal activity with precision.

    Handle the ebbs and flows of markets – even during times of peak volatility with ease.

    Leverage Nasdaq’s trusted market surveillance technology to detect and disrupt fraudulent and potentially criminal activity with precision.

    Expand your footprint as you develop your marketplace

    Rapidly scale and spin-up targeted tests and markets with agile infrastructure that supports you as your marketplace grows and expands, adding new asset types with ease.

    Rapidly scale and spin-up targeted tests and markets with agile infrastructure that supports you as your marketplace grows and expands, adding new asset types with ease.

    Reduce maintenance concerns

    With the platform’s SaaS delivery model, regular updates occur seamlessly, allowing you to run and operate your market uninterrupted and ease the burden on technical and operations resources.

    With the platform’s SaaS delivery model, regular updates occur seamlessly, allowing you to run and operate your market uninterrupted and ease the burden on technical and operations resources.

    Get to market faster

    Decrease friction getting to market, provisioning infrastructure more easily via SaaS model.

    Trust your security protocols

    Leverage the established, proven infosec standards used by Nasdaq and its thousands of technology customers in some the world’s most demanding markets and geographies.

    Marketplace Services Platform

    Nasdaq’s signature marketplace technology facilitates trading and protects your integrity

    Trading Service

    Grow and expand your market

    Trading technology that supports you as you scale, grow and introduce new asset classes, supported by our cloud-based matching engine.

    Market Surveillance Service

    Pinpoint manipulative activity

    Streamlined market visualization and replay tools help you spotlight where market abuse and criminal activity may be happening.

    Flexibly address your unique market needs

    The Marketplace Services Platforms supports a wide range of trading models so that you can choose the negotiation parameters such as size, price, time and a variety of other measures that best fits your client base.

    Demonstrate integrity and drive trust

    Allow investors to see your commitment to prevent market manipulation, and inspire confidence.



    Negotiate and trade a broad range of asset classes

    The Marketplace Services Platform covers a broad range of asset classes from cryptocurrency to carbon credits and traditional capital markets assets and is adaptable to specialized and emerging asset types.

    Nasdaq Trading & Matching Technology won the ‘Trading & Execution Solution of the Year’ at the 2022 FOW International Awards. This award highlights how Nasdaq’s cloud-based Marketplace Services Platform can cater to many different asset classes – from equities to exotic derivatives and digital assets.

    Nasdaq Trading & Matching Technology won the ‘Trading & Execution Solution of the Year’ at the 2022 FOW International Awards. This award highlights how Nasdaq’s cloud-based Marketplace Services Platform can cater to many different asset classes – from equities to exotic derivatives and digital assets.

    How the Marketplace Services Platform Helps Digital Markets

    Building a foundation for innovation in emergent markets and cutting-edge assets

    Our marketplace technology is an engine for market innovation, built to transact across multiple exchanges and asset classes from advertising futures to sports-betting, carbon credits and many new asset classes in between.

    Cryptocurrency

    Raise investor confidence and improve your cryptocurrency exchange’s performance under peak conditions.

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    How Bitstamp is Leveraging Nasdaq Technology

    Bitstamp uses Nasdaq’s trading technology to ensure market stability and robust customer service even during the most turbulent periods in the cryptocurrency market.

    Bitstamp uses Nasdaq’s trading technology to ensure market stability and robust customer service even during the most turbulent periods in the cryptocurrency market.

    Carbon Credits Trading

    Seamlessly match buyers and sellers of carbon credit assets.

    Nasdaq Technology is Powering CIX's Spot Trading Platform

    CIX, a global marketplace for quality carbon credits, will be leveraging Nasdaq's robust cloud-based matching technology.

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    CIX, a global marketplace for quality carbon credits, will be leveraging Nasdaq's robust cloud-based matching technology.

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    Modernizing the Global Market Infrastructure

    Full cloud migration of markets with Nasdaq's Marketplace Services Platform.

    Bolsa Electronica de Chile (BEC)

    Bolsa Electrónica de Chile Upgrades to Nasdaq Marketplace Services Platform

    Bolsa Electrónica de Chile (BEC) will upgrade its current on-premise Nasdaq trading technology to Nasdaq’s SaaS-based Marketplace Services Platform, with the aim to move its operations to the cloud by the end of 2024. As an early adopter of a full cloud migration strategy in Latin America, BEC will be able to meet the evolving requirements of its growing business and client base.

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    Bolsa Electrónica de Chile (BEC) will upgrade its current on-premise Nasdaq trading technology to Nasdaq’s SaaS-based Marketplace Services Platform, with the aim to move its operations to the cloud by the end of 2024. As an early adopter of a full cloud migration strategy in Latin America, BEC will be able to meet the evolving requirements of its growing business and client base.

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    Sports and Gaming Technology

    Build a durable, reliable gaming system capable of handling surges in betting.

    Sporttrade to Leverage Nasdaq Surveillance to Bolster Market Integrity of Sports Betting Platform

    Leveraging Nasdaq’s SaaS-based market surveillance technology, Sporttrade will be able to monitor trading patterns and protect its user base by identifying irregularities and unusual trading behavior.

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    Leveraging Nasdaq’s SaaS-based market surveillance technology, Sporttrade will be able to monitor trading patterns and protect its user base by identifying irregularities and unusual trading behavior.

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    Launch Your Marketplace With Nasdaq's Technology Today!

    Explore the World of Digital Assets

    A new way for liquidity

    Digital assets, whether in born-digital items or digital tokens of physical assets, provide a fascinating new horizon for marketplaces. Physical assets can be broken into individual shares, increasing scope of potential investment. Born-digital assets can also be traded as unique and discrete artifacts.  

    These decentralized exchanges are tracked and monitored through transparent digital records—making secure, optimized technology, like Nasdaq’s, essential for digital assets marketplaces and exchanges. 

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    Nasdaq has been a technology leader throughout its fifty-year tenure, developing the market infrastructure that underpins its global exchanges. Now, Nasdaq is uniquely poised to lend this legacy technology to new and emergent markets, granting the same stabilizing and safe-guarding mechanisms used to ensure smooth operation of its own markets.

    Nasdaq provides technology to more than 130 of the world’s market infrastructure organizations including exchanges, clearinghouses, central securities depositories and regulators, in over 50 countries. 

     

    Currently, 130+ marketplaces around the world leverage Nasdaq’s technology. Nasdaq’s trading and surveillance technology can support multiple types of marketplaces including traditional capital markets operators, as well as new marketplaces such as cryptocurrency, real estate, carbon credits and more. 

     

    Cryptocurrency & digital assets, carbon credits, spot commodities, commercial real estate, luxury goods, 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’s Market Technology unit provides technology and services that drive transparency, efficiency, and integrity in capital markets and beyond. The suite of offerings includes trading, index, risk, post-trade, and anti-financial crime technology solutions for financial institutions, established exchanges and new types of marketplaces, clearinghouses, central securities depositories, as well as re/insurance firms.

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