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    Nasdaq Market Surveillance (SMARTS)

    The most widely used surveillance technology by regulators and exchanges globally.

    Maintain integrity and drive trust and safe market participation for all.

    Built on over 30 years of expertise in market abuse detection, Nasdaq’s robust surveillance platform includes advanced market monitoring analytics to help ensure fair, transparent, and safe markets.

    Our full coverage surveillance technology spans from early detection of market abuse to investigative insights.

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    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Benefits

    See why over 45+ marketplaces and 13 regulators leverage Nasdaq Market Surveillance technology worldwide.

    Protect Market Participants and Investors

    Keep markets safe, uphold regulatory standards and maintain integrity throughout your jurisdiction to more effectively protect investors.

    Maintain Competitive Edge

    Build trust and transparency within your market to help attract liquidity and drive growth in an increasingly competitive market environment.

    Focus on What Matters

    Leverage a robust and flexible workflow, supported by data analysis and visualization tools, to reduce operational complexity and focus on what matters – protecting markets.

    Ensure Regulatory Compliance

    Benefit from the expertise of Nasdaq’s own regulatory teams, as well as our large network of customers across a broad set of jurisdictions, which is continuously integrated into the product.

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    Proven in the world’s fastest and largest markets.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance is the market monitoring solution of choice for traditional and start up markets, central banks and financial regulators world-wide.

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    Cross-market, cross-asset, multi-venue

    Surveillance solution, with proven capabilities that help to ensure marketplace integrity and protect investors.

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    Traditional Exchanges

    Power your surveillance with the same technology trusted by 45+ of the world’s largest exchanges to maintain market integrity and drive investor protection.

    Crypto Exchanges

    Safeguard your crypto exchange with robust risk management controls and comply with regulation as it evolves with little impact to latency.

    Regulators

    Rapidly adapt your surveillance program to evolve with the market and address complex challenges surrounding new trading methodologies, additional asset classes and increasing data volumes.

    Central Banks

    Help drive economic stability and liquidity with trusted surveillance technology that enables you to monitor across asset classes and markets.

    Alternative Trading Venues

    Effectively monitor the order flow of alternative trading venues or internalized platforms with surveillance capabilities tailored to your unique needs.

    Traditional Exchanges

    Power your surveillance with the same technology trusted by 45+ of the world’s largest exchanges to maintain market integrity and drive investor protection.

    Crypto Exchanges

    Safeguard your crypto exchange with robust risk management controls and comply with regulation as it evolves with little impact to latency.

    Regulators

    Rapidly adapt your surveillance program to evolve with the market and address complex challenges surrounding new trading methodologies, additional asset classes and increasing data volumes.

    Central Banks

    Help drive economic stability and liquidity with trusted surveillance technology that enables you to monitor across asset classes and markets.

    Alternative Trading Venues

    Effectively monitor the order flow of alternative trading venues or internalized platforms with surveillance capabilities tailored to your unique needs.

    Asset Class Coverage

    Equities

    Fixed Income

    Commodities

    Benchmarks

    Derivatives

    FX

    Energy/ Power

    OTC

    Digital Assets

    Cryptocurrency

    Swaps

    Carbon

    Are you prepared for the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation?

    With MiCA scheduled to go into effect in the EU, firms will encounter stricter surveillance requirements once the regulation is implemented. See how Nasdaq can support you in preparing before the deadline.

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    With MiCA scheduled to go into effect in the EU, firms will encounter stricter surveillance requirements once the regulation is implemented. See how Nasdaq can support you in preparing before the deadline.

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    Thought Leadership

    Don’t miss the latest surveillance news, industry trends and regulatory updates.

    2024 Nasdaq Global Compliance Survey

    2024 Nasdaq Global Compliance Survey

    Read the 2024 Nasdaq Global Compliance Survey to Learn:

    • What compliance professionals consider their top challenges in the year ahead
    • Why compliance professionals have increased demand for a more data-driven approach and gaining a strategic edge
    • How the landscape is rapidly evolving towards a model that prioritizes innovation, efficiency and the application of technology

    Read the 2024 Nasdaq Global Compliance Survey to Learn:

    • What compliance professionals consider their top challenges in the year ahead
    • Why compliance professionals have increased demand for a more data-driven approach and gaining a strategic edge
    • How the landscape is rapidly evolving towards a model that prioritizes innovation, efficiency and the application of technology

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    Regulatory Spotlight - National Futures Association

    Ed Dasso, SVP of Market Regulation, National Futures Association, speaks about the change in responsibilities of the NFA over the past 40 years. The mission has remained constant, to safeguard market integrity and investor protection. Learn more about the NFA and their experience with Nasdaq Market Surveillance.

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    Press Release

    Bitvavo Adopts Nasdaq Market Surveillance to Enhance Integrity of its Digital Asset Exchange

    With this partnership, Bitvavo is seeking to further enhance the trust, transparency, and integrity of its marketplace by enabling its compliance framework to keep pace with the rapid growth and development of the business.

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    Press Release

    Indonesia Stock Exchange Partners with Nasdaq to Upgrade Market Infrastructure

    The technology partnership will further enhance overall resilience and integrity of the exchange, while supporting the rapid deployment of new products and services. The scalable trading platform will quadruple transaction capacity and support development of the Indonesian economy.

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    Factsheet

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance Factsheet

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance has nearly 30 years of experience as the industry benchmark for real-time and T+1, cross-market, cross-asset surveillance. Owning and operating 30+ venues enables Nasdaq to provide customers with unique surveillance advisory and best meet each client’s distinct surveillance needs.

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    30+
    Years of surveillance expertise

    45+
    Marketplaces globally

    13
    Regulators Globally

    See in-depth surveillance coverage in action.

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    Complete the form to request a free demo of our Nasdaq Market Surveillance solution.

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    Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving global market landscape by navigating the latest market abuse regulations and complex market dynamics across multiple jurisdictions.

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    Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving global market landscape by navigating the latest market abuse regulations and complex market dynamics across multiple jurisdictions.

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    Nasdaq Anti-Financial Crime Solutions for Cryptocurrency

    Effectively mitigate risks across traditional and digital assets, fiat and crypto, and on and off-chain activities with a comprehensive suite of crypto-specific monitoring capabilities.

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    Effectively mitigate risks across traditional and digital assets, fiat and crypto, and on and off-chain activities with a comprehensive suite of crypto-specific monitoring capabilities.

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    Verafin: BSA/AML Compliance and Management

    Strengthen regulatory compliance and enhance your ability to detect, investigate and report potentially suspicious activity with targeted analytics and end-to-end BSA/AML solutions.

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    Strengthen regulatory compliance and enhance your ability to detect, investigate and report potentially suspicious activity with targeted analytics and end-to-end BSA/AML solutions.

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    Nasdaq Trade Surveillance

    Proactively detect market abuse and comply with regulations with time-tested and comprehensive cross-market, cross-asset trade surveillance technology.

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    Proactively detect market abuse and comply with regulations with time-tested and comprehensive cross-market, cross-asset trade surveillance technology.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance is one of the most robust surveillance tools on the market. Rather than offer discrete pieces of software with single, directed functionalities, Nasdaq Market Surveillance presents a far-ranging suite of features, preparing you to track criminal activity across markets, asset classes, and venues.

    The solution also benefits from Nasdaq’s unique position as a longtime global operator of 17 exchanges, who help to drive product innovation to evolve with the market. Our large customer network and fluid collaboration with Nasdaq’s own markets enable us to continuously to keep the product at the forefront of regulatory change.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance has the best track record and recognition among regulators, continual investment, a large community of users and the most comprehensive handling of different trading models and asset classes.

    Equities, derivatives, cryptocurrency and digital assets, carbon credits, swaps, fixed income, FX, commodities, commercial real estate, electricity, and more. Nasdaq’s trading and surveillance technology is reliable and scalable, allowing you to grow and expand with the addition of new asset types as needed.

    Nasdaq Market Surveillance provides markets and regulators with a robust platform to detect potentially abusive trading behaviors. Sophisticated algorithms detect patterns of abuse, market manipulation and insider trading, enabling surveillance analysts to filter only events of interest. Nasdaq Market Surveillance technology provides 70+ pre-configured alerts as well as the ability for users to tailor alerting algorithms to create their own ad hoc alerts. The system offers intuitive case focused visualizations as well as case management to help assess and manage each case.

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