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    Nasdaq Market Surveillance (SMARTS) FAQs

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Nasdaq is dedicated to answering all your questions about our market surveillance software. Below are some of our most frequently asked questions about the software and its market coverage.

    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.

    Nasdaq offers multiple deployment options to best fit the needs of your organization, including self-hosted, managed service, and surveillance as a service. Each of the deployment options are detailed below.

    Self-Hosted: In this approach the solution is deployed and operated in your environment. This can be either on your own hardware or on a third-party cloud or hosting provider.

    Managed Service: In this approach the hosting and operation is handled by Nasdaq. There are two options for hosting – cloud-based or via Nasdaq’s data center. The Managed Service offering allows a similar level of bespoke solution flexibility as the self-hosted approach, the difference being that Nasdaq is hosting and operating.

    Surveillance as a Service: This is similar to the Managed Service offering. However, in this deployment method, Nasdaq 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 Nasdaq Market Surveillance SaaS offering gives customers a set of configurable alerts and reports relevant to the market or assets traded, as well as world leading analytical tools, visualizations, and case management capabilities. The architecture allows for a more streamlined delivery, faster time to market, and lower implementation costs. At the same time, this provides greater flexibility for changes in volumes or regulatory requirements.

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