Nasdaq Market Surveillance
Powers market integrity on a global stage
This Solution Helps
- Marketplaces
- New Markets
- Regulators
For exchanges and trading venues, the ability to maintain a fair, transparent and safe market is critical to attracting liquidity
Our Nasdaq Market Surveillance (SMARTS) solutions provide you with a robust platform to manage cross-market, cross-asset, multi-venue surveillance.
Powerful visualization tools simplify the monitoring process by distilling complex information into a single snapshot that provides you with clear guidance on where to focus an investigation. You can also correlate real-time and historical data with detection patterns to ensure early detection of unusual trading patterns that could be potential breaches of exchange trading rules and practices.
How Has Volatility Impacted Surveillance?

How Can Nasdaq Market Surveillance help you?
Detect abuse
Identify of manipulative patterns in real-time with context surrounding irregular activities
Visualize activity
Leverage interactive visualizations for clear graphic support of market analysis and easy comparison of potentially abusive scenarios to normal market behavior
Analyze cases
Manage the case work flow via a detailed event analysis and arrangement, which can be leveraged and evidentiary support in regulatory cases
Replay
Drill down to the order book and replay any transaction for any security during any time period – including a complete audit trail and consolidation across different venues and books
Profile actors
Compare a traders' behavior against their history and their peers to identify uncharacteristic or high risk behavior
Gain market insights
Gain visibility into event behavior and flag risky changes via data and analytics

We are progressing on a broader machine learning strategy and exploring other applications of this technology to strengthen the surveillance process for markets worldwide
Head of Marketplace Regulatory Technology, Market Technology Find out moreSOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
Nasdaq Market Surveillance provides surveillance teams with the essential monitoring toolkit:
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Functionality
Robust and flexible workflow, supported by market-leading analysis and visualization tools
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Performance
Ability to load and process billions of messages daily and to identify undesirable behavior via a suite of sophisticated alerts
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Operability & Resilience
Proven in a number of massive volume implementations, including those across Nasdaq markets
Choosing the right deployment method for your surveillance program:
Self-Hosted Solution
In this approach the solution is deployed and operated on your client environment. This can be either in your own hardware or on a third party cloud or hosting provider.
Managed Service
In this approach the hosting and operation is handled by the vendor. There are two options for hosting:
1. Cloud Based
2. Vendor Data Center
The Managed Service offering allows a similar level of bespoke solution flexibility as the self-hosted approach, the difference being the vendor is hosting and operating.
Surveillance as a Service
This is similar to the Managed Service offering. However, in this deployment method, the vendor offers standard architecture, alerting, reporting, and modules. This is a more streamlined approach which allows lower implementation cost and faster time to market, but with less customizability.

Our clients speak for themselves:


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Resource Center
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Nasdaq Market Surveillance Brochure
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Surveillance as a Service Factsheet
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Nasdaq Market Surveillance for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
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The Role of Market Surveillance: Building Trust in Crypto Markets View The Role of Market Surveillance: Building Trust in Crypto Markets
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Cryptocurrency Regulation Summary: 2022 Edition
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Crypto Regulation in 2022: A Year for Change View Crypto Regulation in 2022: A Year for Change
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Energy and Power Market Manipulation: Surveillance with a Regulatory Perspective View Energy and Power Market Manipulation: Surveillance with a Regulatory Perspective
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The Case for Crypto Market Surveillance
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CIO Market Infrastructure Survey 2021
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Top 3 Behaviors to Monitor in Crypto Markets
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Betting on Honesty: A Proactive Approach to Market Integrity
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Behavioral Analysis in Market Surveillance: Going beyond data aggregation and standard statistical techniques
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Nasdaq Enforcement Report
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Surveillance Deployment Guide
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Top Regulatory Trends for Exchanges & Regulators
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Reimagining Surveillance as a Service View Reimagining Surveillance as a Service
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On Guard in Crypto View On Guard in Crypto
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AI Surveillance on the US Stock Market
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Scoring Alerts: Nasdaq Nordic Surveillance's Implementation of MI
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Surveillance Trends In The Financial Markets Ecosystem And Beyond
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#TradeTalks: The launch of Nasdaq Market Surveillance and Supervision for Central Banks
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#TradeTalks: How has volatility impacted market surveillance? #sgfintechfest
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Nasdaq Decodes: Bringing AI in Market Surveillance to Nasdaq’s U.S. Stock Market
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SMARTS Nordics Machine Intelligence & Surveillance Project