At the center 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 objectives. In 2025 Nasdaq supported its corporate, investor, and financial services clients across three foundational pillars:
Increasing Capital to Drive Innovation
Nasdaq helped companies access and raise new capital through its primary exchange listings. We operated Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market and partnered with our clients to offer dedicated indexes that tracked innovative companies across the sustainability ecosystem.
Enhancing Disclosure and Transparency
We provided robust services like Nasdaq Metrio, Nasdaq Lens, AxiomSL, and Sustainability & Climate Advisory services for best-practice sustainability programs, data-driven insights, and regulatory reporting.
Scaling New Market and Infrastructure Solutions
Our innovative technology digitized carbon credits, managed 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.
Partnering With Clients to Achieve Their Sustainability Objectives in 2025
Sustainability & Climate Advisory ->
Nasdaq’s Sustainability & Climate Advisory services helped companies analyze, assess, and action best practices as it relates to their sustainability programs.
Nasdaq Metrio™ ->
Nasdaq Metrio is a sustainability reporting platform that helps organizations collect, validate, and report sustainability‑ and climate‑related data. Powered by advanced automation and built around global regulatory frameworks, Metrio gives teams the tools they need to transform complex sustainability data into audit ready disclosures.
Nasdaq Lens™ ->
Nasdaq Lens is an AI‑powered platform designed specifically for finance, legal, sustainability, and risk professionals. It transforms manual research, benchmarking, and disclosure drafting—helping organizations stay aligned, compliant, and efficient.
The platform delivered immediate value through its AI‑powered gap assessment and streamlined our targeted analysis and benchmarking efforts—saving our team substantial time and resources.”
Governance Solutions ->
Nasdaq Governance Solutions provided an ecosystem of technologies, advisory services, and a global community designed to accelerate board effectiveness. This includes Nasdaq Boardvantage®, a board management software that empowers efficiency and decision‑making for board members and governance teams though integrated technologies, AI‑powered workflows, and insights.
Puro.earth ->
Puro.earth is a carbon crediting platform for durable Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR). Puro.earth’s high‑integrity carbon removals, the CO2 Removal Certificate (CORC), provided companies and investors access to verified carbon removal credits to complement their decarbonization strategies with tools to neutralize residual emissions.
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).
eVestment™ – Sustainability Data in Asset Management ->
Nasdaq eVestment is Nasdaq’s institutional investment database and analytics platform. In collaboration with consultants, asset managers, asset owners, and key industry organizations, eVestment provided a centralized resource to help meet the increasing demand for transparent and standardized sustainability data from institutional stakeholders.
Green Equity Designations ->
Nasdaq Green Equity Designations enables visibility and transparency for investors on the Nordic markets with four voluntary designations—Nasdaq Green Equity Designation, Nasdaq Green Equity Transition Designation, Nasdaq Green Equity Designation – Private Company, and Nasdaq Green Equity Transition Designation – Private Company.
Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market ->
The Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market lists green, social, sustainability and sustainability‑linked bonds, structured products, and commercial papers 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 is a global platform that aims to increase transparency for environmental, social, and sustainable bonds. It connected issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.
How We Partnered With Clients to Enable Positive Outcomes in 2025
We aim to drive positive outcomes through the broader economic and societal impact of our solutions and services—supporting business growth, addressing financial crime, and strengthening market resilience worldwide.
Capital Markets Technology ->
Nasdaq’s Capital Markets Technology business delivered mission critical infrastructure that powers exchanges, clearinghouses, central securities depositories (CSDs), central banks, and financial institutions across the full trade lifecycle. Drawing on Nasdaq’s experience as a regulated market operator, our deeply embedded platforms enabled front to back integration across trading, risk, collateral, clearing, settlement, and post trade processing—helping market participants reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, and scale safely.
Regulatory Technology ->
Nasdaq’s Regulatory Technology solutions helped financial institutions and regulators uphold market integrity, manage risk, and comply with evolving regulatory requirements across global markets. Designed for use in highly regulated environments, our platforms supported consistent, transparent, and resilient oversight of market activity.
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 leveraged the latest innovations, including AI advancements, consortium analytics and cloud technology, to protect the wider financial ecosystem by helping institutions more effectively fight financial crime.
The team is wonderful to work with. They supported us through the integrations seamlessly, and if we had questions, they were always there. We’ve realized a 30% decrease in false positive alerts and a 25% increase in prevented losses."
Listings – U.S. ->
Nasdaq’s U.S. listings business served companies ranging from small to mega‑cap issuers. Nasdaq served as a resource for the challenges faced by our 2,500+ small and micro‑cap issuers through customized programming and advocacy.
First North Growth Market ->
Nasdaq First North Growth Market has created an ecosystem and an engine for economic and financial progress that is highly supportive of SMEs. This environment relies on close connectivity with the local investor base, which is crucial for SME growth and success.
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