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Market is the largest single venue of liquidity for trading U.S.-
listed cash equities. For the year ended December 31, 2016, our
cash equity exchanges had a combined matched market share
of 17.4% in the U.S. cash equity market, consisting of 14.0%
at The Nasdaq Stock Market, 2.4% at Nasdaq BX and 1.0% at
Nasdaq PSX.
Our U.S. cash equity exchanges offer trading of both Nasdaq-
listed and non-Nasdaq-listed securities. Market participants
include market makers, broker-dealers, ATSs and registered
securities exchanges.
In February 2016, we acquired Chi-X Canada ATS Limited, a
leading alternative market in Canada for the trading of
Canadian-listed securities. With this acquisition, which
expanded Nasdaq’s Cash Equity Trading business in North
America, Nasdaq offers two lit markets and one dark market
for the trading of Canadian-listed securities. Effective June 1,
2016, we changed the name of Chi-X Canada to Nasdaq CXC.
In Europe, Nasdaq operates exchanges in Stockholm (Sweden),
Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), and Reykjavik
(Iceland). We also operate exchanges in Tallinn (Estonia), Riga
(Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania). Nasdaq owns Nasdaq Tallinn
and has a majority ownership in Nasdaq Vilnius and Nasdaq
Riga. In addition, Nasdaq owns the central securities
depositories in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Collectively, the Nasdaq Nordic and Nasdaq Baltic exchanges
offer trading in cash equities and depository receipts, warrants,
convertibles, rights, fund units and exchange traded funds. Our
platform allows the exchanges to share the same trading system,
which enables efficient cross-border trading and settlement,
cross membership and a single source for Nordic data products.
Settlement and registration of cash equity trading takes place
in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland via the local central
securities depositories.
FICC
Our FICC business includes the Nasdaq Fixed Income business,
NFX and Nasdaq Commodities.
In early 2017, we announced a new fixed income strategy under
new leadership. The repositioning, which is designed to
enhance the customer experience, brings our U.S. and European
fixed income products and services together under a single
brand called Nasdaq Fixed Income.
The U.S. portion of Nasdaq Fixed Income includes the business
formerly known as eSpeed, an electronic platform for trading
U.S. Treasuries that we acquired in June 2013. The electronic
trading platform provides real-time institutional trading of
benchmark U.S. Treasury securities. Through this business, we
provide trading access to the U.S. Treasury securities market
with an array of trading instruments to meet various investment
goals across the fixed income spectrum.
The European portion of Nasdaq Fixed Income provides a wide
range of products and services, such as listing, trading, and
clearing, for fixed income products in Sweden, Denmark,
Finland and Iceland. Nasdaq Stockholm is the largest bond
listing venue in the Nordics, with more than 8,300 listed retail
and institutional bonds. In addition, Nasdaq Nordic facilitates
the trading and clearing of Nordic fixed income derivatives in
a unique market structure. Buyers and sellers agree to trades in
fixed income derivatives through bilateral negotiations and then
report those trades to Nasdaq Clearing for CCP clearing. Nasdaq
Clearing acts as the counterparty to both the buyer and seller.
Nasdaq Commodities is the brand name for Nasdaq’s
worldwide suite of commodity-related products and services.
Nasdaq Commodities’ offerings include oil, power, natural gas
and carbon emission markets, tanker and dry cargo freight,
seafood derivatives, iron ore, electricity certificates and
clearing services. The products are listed on two of Nasdaq’s
derivatives exchanges.
Nasdaq Oslo ASA, which is authorized by the Norwegian
Ministry of Finance and supervised by the Norwegian Financial
Supervisory Authority, is the commodity derivatives exchange
for European products and freight. All trades with Nasdaq Oslo
ASA are subject to clearing with Nasdaq Clearing, which is a
CCP authorized under EMIR by the
SFSA to conduct clearing
operations.
We also operate NFX, our U.S. based energy derivatives market.
NFX, which is a designated contract market authorized by the
CFTC, offers cash-settled energy derivatives based on key
energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and U.S. power.
All trades with NFX are subject to clearing with OCC.
Trade Management Services
We provide market participants with a wide variety of
alternatives for connecting to and accessing our markets for a
fee. Shifting connectivity from proprietary networks to third-
party networks has significantly reduced technology and
network costs and increased our systems’ scalability while
maintaining performance and reliability.
Our marketplaces may be accessed via a number of different
protocols used for quoting, order entry, trade reporting, DROP
functionality and connectivity to various data feeds. We also
offer the Nasdaq Workstation, a browser-based, front-end
interface that allows market participants to view data and enter
orders, quotes and trade reports. In addition, we offer a variety
of add-on compliance tools to help firms comply with
regulatory requirements.
We provide co-location services to market participants,
whereby firms may lease cabinet space and power to house their
own equipment and servers within our data centers. These
participants are charged monthly fees for cabinet space,
connectivity and support. Additionally, we offer a number of
wireless connectivity routes between select data centers using
millimeter wave and microwave technology. We also earn
revenues from annual and monthly exchange membership and
registration fees.
Our broker services operations offer technology and
customized securities administration solutions to financial
participants in the Nordic market. Broker services provides
services through a registered securities company that is
regulated by the SFSA. Services primarily consist of flexible