We began primarily a U.S.-based equities exchange. Today, Nasdaq is recognized around the globe as a diversified worldwide financial technology, trading and information services provider to the capital markets, with more than 3,500 colleagues serving businesses and investors from over 50 offices in 26 countries across six continents – and in every capital market.
With our customers in mind, we transformed the world’s capital markets by engineering precedent-setting acquisitions, achieving groundbreaking progress, and empowering people to think differently and businesses to compete more effectively.
Our timeline illustrates our proud history of not only growth and achievement but also, and equally important, the tremendous strides that can be achieved through a shared commitment to the pursuit of innovation, knowledge and continuous improvement.
Nasdaq's Recent History| Year
| Historical Event
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| 1971 | NASDAQ introduces the era of all-electronic trading. With this innovation, NASDAQ attracts new growth companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and Dell. | |
| 1987 | OM, Europe’s first derivatives exchange (founded in 1985 ) becomes the world’s first exchange that is a publicly traded and listed. | |
| 1990 | OM becomes the first exchange in history to transform the exchange business model by leveraging its capital markets and technology expertise to service the exchange industry. The company sold the world’s first electronic exchange system for derivatives trading, commercializing its proprietary technology | |
| 2005 | NASDAQ begins offering investor relations, public relations and multimedia services (technology-based monitoring, reporting and marketing) to listed companies to help promote their capital health. Today, this business represents more than 10% of total net revenue. | |
| 2007 | NASDAQ merges with OMX, a leading exchange operator in the Nordics, to diversify and expand its global footprint, and changes its name to The NASDAQ OMX Group. | |
| 2013 | The NASDAQ OMX Group acquires Thomson Reuters’ investor relations, public relations and Multimedia Solutions businesses, expanding its corporate solutions business. The acquisition makes The NASDAQ OMX Group a leading provider of company solutions to more than 10,000 corporate clients. | |
| 2014 | The NASDAQ OMX Group is now known as Nasdaq, which represents its rising global brand recognition and new brand identity. | |
| 2015
| Nasdaq aquires index provider and analytics group, Dorsey Wright & Associates, LLC.
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