At the epicenter of the capital markets and technology, Nasdaq is uniquely positioned to empower corporates, investors, and financial institutions with strategic solutions designed to help them achieve their sustainability objectives.
Nasdaq supports its corporate, investor, and financial services clients across three foundational pillars:
Increasing Capital to Drive Innovation
Nasdaq helps companies access and raise new capital through its primary exchange listings. We operate Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market and Bond Network, and partner with our clients to offer dedicated indexes that track innovative companies across the sustainability ecosystem.
Enhancing Disclosure and Transparency
We provide robust services like Nasdaq Metrio™, Nasdaq Sustainable Lens®, Axiom SL, and Sustainability and Climate Advisory services for best-practice sustainability programs, data-driven insights, and regulatory reporting.
Scaling New Market and Infrastructure Solutions
Our innovative technology digitizes carbon credits, manages efficient and transparent trading, issuance, settlement, and custody of carbon credits, and we are a majority owner in Puro.earth, a global carbon removal platform.
Strategic solutions that empower corporates, investors, and financial institutions to achieve their
sustainability objectives.
Corporates
Identify and understand investors that prioritize investing
| IR Intelligence |
Analyze, assess, take action, and disclose sustainability metrics
| Nasdaq Metrio™ |
| Puro.earth |
| Sustainable Lens® |
| Sustainability and Climate Advisory |
Drive better corporate governance, board effectiveness, and help capture conflicts of interest
| Governance Solutions |
Investors
Provide data, analytics, insights and tools for allocators and managers to identify and execute sustainable investing strategies
| ESG Indexes |
| eVestment |
| Green Equity Designation |
| Nasdaq Data Link |
| Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market |
| Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network |
Financial Institutions
Technology for regulatory reporting, carbon trading, and carbon registry
| Axiom SL |
| Puro.earth |
| Carbon Registry and Trading |
Sustainability & Climate Advisory ->
Nasdaq’s Sustainability and Climate Advisory services help companies analyze, assess, and action best practices as it relates to their sustainability programs.
Since we started working with Nasdaq in 2022, their team has taken the time to truly understand our industry, challenges and sustainability goals—going beyond generic advice to delivering tailored strategies.”
Nasdaq Metrio™ ->
Nasdaq Metrio is a SaaS-based sustainability data management and reporting platform. It enables corporates to collect, measure, disclose, and communicate investor-grade, auditable sustainability data efficiently across dozens of raters, rankers, and framework organizations to drive strategic outcomes and attract investors.
After choosing Nasdaq Metrio because of its many features, we started the implementation project. The professionalism and structured handling of our setup convinced us that we were in good hands."
Nasdaq Sustainable Lens® ->
Nasdaq’s Sustainable Lens is a sustainability research and benchmarking solution designed to equip sustainability, investor relations, legal, and accounting professionals with on-demand, data-driven insights from over 9,000 companies globally.
With the rise of new sustainability and climate regulation standards and reporting requirements, companies can use AI to better understand those requirements and how they can better align with them.”
IR Intelligence ->
Investor Relations Intelligence (IR Intelligence) provides insights and analytics software and advisory services products globally with the mission to help clients effectively navigate the capital markets.
Governance Solutions ->
Nasdaq Governance Solutions provides an ecosystem of technologies, advisory services, and a global community designed to accelerate board effectiveness. Our solutions enhance board effectiveness by simplifying meeting management, board evaluations, and compliance questionnaires.
Puro.earth
Puro.earth is a carbon crediting program focused exclusively on carbon removals. Puro.earth's high integrity carbon removals, the CO2 Removal Certificate (CORC), provide companies with a much-needed tool in their efforts to reach their carbon net-zero targets,
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Puro.earth is a carbon crediting program focused exclusively on carbon removals. Puro.earth's high integrity carbon removals, the CO2 Removal Certificate (CORC), provide companies with a much-needed tool in their efforts to reach their carbon net-zero targets,
Supporting the Investor Community
ESG Indexes ->
Nasdaq manages indexes that integrate ESG criteria into the index methodology, including the OMX Stockholm 30 ESG Responsible Index (OMXS30ESG) and The Nasdaq-100 ESG Index (NDXESG).
Nasdaq Data Link – Sustainability Data ->
Sustainability Data via Nasdaq Data Link offers investors and other stakeholders easy access to a wide range of comprehensive ESG data sets. The platform enables users to find data sets relevant to specific SDGs, as well as sustainability and climate.
eVestment™ – ESG Data in Asset Management ->
eVestment is Nasdaq’s institutional investment database and analytics platform. In collaboration with consultants, asset managers, asset owners, and key industry organizations, eVestment’s ESG Data provides a centralized resource to help meet the increasing demand for transparent and standardized ESG data from institutional stakeholders.
Green Equity Designations ->
Nasdaq Green Equity Designations enables visibility and transparency for investors on the Nordic markets with two voluntary designations, Nasdaq Green Equity Designation and Nasdaq Green Equity Transition Designation.
Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market ->
The Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market lists green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds, structured products, and commercial papers, and is designed to highlight sustainable investment opportunities to investors with a green, social, or sustainable investment focus.
Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network ->
The Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network (NSBN) is a global platform that aims to increase transparency for environmental, social, and sustainable bonds. It connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.
Enabling Positive Outcomes
We strive to enable positive outcomes through the broader economic and societal impact of our solutions and services – creating opportunities for businesses to grow, addressing the world’s growing financial crime challenges, and ensuring markets are resilient worldwide.
Capital Markets Technology ->
In addition to Nasdaq owning and operating 18 exchanges in North America, the Nordics, and the Baltics, Nasdaq’s Capital Markets Technology solutions provide exchanges, clearinghouses, central security depositories (CSDs), central banks and other buy-side trading firms, and bank ecosystem participants with institutional-grade mission-critical capabilities. Our acquisition of Adenza expanded our footprint more deeply into the banking ecosystem.
Regulatory Technology ->
Nasdaq’s Regulatory Technology solutions empower financial institutions and regulators across global markets to uphold market integrity and transparency.
With the integration of AxiomSL to the portfolio in 2024, Nasdaq added multi-jurisdictional risk and financial regulatory reporting across liquidity, capital and credit, operations, trade, and transaction reporting and ESG to help firms adhere to regulatory requirements at scale.
Financial Crime Management Technology ->
Financial crime is a complex, global challenge that erodes the integrity of the financial system and has deep impacts on society and the communities we serve. Nasdaq Verafin leverages the latest innovations, including AI and cloud technology, to protect the wider financial ecosystem by helping institutions more effectively fight financial crime.
Listings – U.S. ->
Nasdaq’s U.S. listings business serves companies ranging from small to large-cap issuers. The challenges faced by our 2,500+ small and micro-cap issuers are top of mind for Nasdaq, and we serve as a resource through customized programming and advocacy.
First North Growth Market ->
Nasdaq First North has fostered a symbiotic relationship between emerging companies and local as well as international investors. This close-knit ecosystem not only provides small-and medium-sized enterprises with vital access to capital but also offers retail and institutional investors the opportunity to be part of exciting growth stories and efficiently manage such investments.