They just landed their first corporate customer, the Nasdaq OMX Group, owners of that stock exchange.
In a year of spectacular market meltdowns, Nasdaq OMX Group has capitalized on the turmoil.
Nasdaq OMX Group made headlines after announcing plans for a new private-market joint venture with SharesPost.
Nasdaq OMX Group competes with other exchanges like NYSE Euronext and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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In Friday trading, Nasdaq OMX Group shares are currently up about 0.9% on the day.
The International Securities Exchange is owned by Deutsche Bourse, Nasdaq OMX Group is also a global corporation.
That latter step is what gutted a rival offer for the Big Board from Nasdaq OMX Group and Intercontinental Exchange.
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Other competitors in the financial sector include: NYSE Euronext (NYX), Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ), and CME Group (CME).
Other competitors in the financial sector include: NYSE Euronext (NYX), Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ), and CBOE Holdings, Inc (CBOE).
Nasdaq OMX Group ( NDAQ - news - people ), was leaving the exchange, analysts adjusted their ratings and comments down.
The NASDAQ OMX Group announced the launch of FinQloud, a cloud computing offering powered by AWS and exclusively designed for the financial services industry.
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About 7.86 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges operated by NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group, 22% more than the daily average this year.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
The new group is to be called The Nasdaq OMX Group and will have Nasdaq Chief Executive RobertGreifeldRobert Greifeld as its CEO and Magnus Bocker, his counterpart at OMX, as president.
Nasdaq officials had pushed for stock-market trading to resume Wednesday, telling customers that they intended to keep Nasdaq OMX Group's downtown Manhattan headquarters closed and run operations from data centers in Carteret, N.
In an interview with Steve Forbes, Nasdaq OMX Group CEO Robert Griefeld said the impact of FinReg has been negligible but, he added, that new rules are coming on line and starting to be enforced.
This significant volume drop was also had at the Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ), which saw its U.S. equity volumes fall each quarter on a year over year basis and in most cases sequentially in 2012.
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In aggregate, 2012 U.S. matched equity volumes at Nasdaq OMX Group fell 20.4% compared to 2011 and in my view that should squash any argument that falling volumes at the NYSE were due only to market share losses.
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Yet the very enormity of this contention underscores a conspicuous omission in the communications strategies pursued by both Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1), on its end, and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) on theirs.
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LimeInside currently offers co-location at the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq OMX Group, NYSE Arca and BATS. This service will be extended to Direct Edge, the newest exchange, and the rest of the New York Stock Exchange in a few weeks, Wecker says.
Major competitors are Nasdaq OMX, CME Group, BATS Global and Direct Edge.
Exchanges such as CME Group, Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext are lined up to get a piece of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market as new regulations will require derivatives trading to go through exchanges and be cleared through clearing houses.
Major competitors of Nasdaq OMX are NYSE Euronext, CME Group, BATS Global and Direct Edge.
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