Serving the ESG Ecosystem
Our ESG solutions and services aim to deliver scaled positive impact across corporates, investors and financial institutions and their millions of employees, customers and suppliers.
Supporting Clients
We serve the corporate community throughout their ESG lifecycle, helping public companies navigate the capital markets, supporting private companies on path to becoming public companies and engaging with all types of companies to navigate a diverse and complex shareholder landscape.
Asset owners and asset managers equally face an increasingly complex and dynamic ESG landscape. We serve the investment community with a range of workflow, data and analytics capabilities to help them manage their portfolios and enhance their asset allocation decision-making processes. We also support financial institutions as they strive to manage fast-moving ESG reporting and disclosure obligations including evolving jurisdiction and regime specific requirements.
ESG Advisory ->
Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory is a service solution that pairs companies with consultative ESG expertise to help analyze, assess and put into action best-practice ESG programs with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.
Nasdaq was an ideal partner in issuing our TCFD report due to their climate expertise, data-driven insights, and ability to integrate these with strong understanding of capital markets.
Nasdaq Metrio™ ->
Nasdaq Metrio™ is an end-to-end sustainability reporting platform that enables corporates to collect, measure, disclose and communicate investor-grade, audited ESG data efficiently across dozens of raters, rankers and framework organizations to drive strategic outcomes and attract investors.
Nasdaq has helped us improve our internal workflow and positioned us to seamlessly take on new and emerging reporting frameworks, resulting in a total of 150 total hours saved across one year.
IR Intelligence ->
Investor Relations Intelligence (IR Intelligence) provides insights and analytics software and advisory services products globally with the mission to help clients effectively navigate the capital markets. In 2023, IR Intelligence developed Nasdaq Sustainable Lens™, an ESG intelligence platform to equip sustainability, investor relations, legal and accounting professionals with on-demand, data-driven insights from over 9,000 companies globally.
Having a tool like Nasdaq Sustainable Lens at your fingertips is huge. It helps me quickly respond to executive questions and instantly understand what is being disclosed by my peers and sector, on-demand.
Governance Solutions ->
Nasdaq Governance Solutions provides a comprehensive suite of technologies, advisory services and a global community for boards and leadership teams. Nasdaq’s governance ecosystem is designed to accelerate board performance by integrating technology, intelligent insights and expertise in one place.
Nasdaq Boardvantage is easy to use and intuitive. It saves us a lot of time when preparing for board meetings, which allows me to focus on the material and good governance.
ESG Indexes ->
Nasdaq provides innovative, transparent index strategies and 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 ESG and D&I ->
eVestment is Nasdaq’s institutional investment database and analytics platform. eVestment’s ESG and D&I Data provides a centralized resource to help meet the increasing demand for transparent and standardized D&I and ESG data from institutional stakeholders.
Puro.earth ->
Puro.earth is a carbon crediting program focused exclusively on carbon removals. Puro.earth’s high integrity carbon removals, the CO2 Removal Certificate (CORC), provide companies with a much-needed tool in their efforts to reach their carbon neutrality targets.
Green Equity Designations ->
Nasdaq Green Equity Designations enables visibility and transparency for investors on the Nordic markets with two voluntary designations, Nasdaq Green Equity Designation and Nasdaq Green Equity Transition Designation.
ESG Footprint ->
Nasdaq offers a suite of data solutions which measure ESG performance at portfolio, fund and individual security level. This data enables investors and managers to better understand the real-world effects of their investments, report on sustainable finance regulations, align with leading international frameworks including the SDGs and build pioneering sustainability solutions.
ESG Data Hub ->
ESG Data Hub is a data solution offering investors and other stakeholders easy access to a wide range of comprehensive ESG data sets. The platform enables users to find data sets relevant to specific SDGs, as well as diversity and inclusion, sustainability and climate.
Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market ->
The Nasdaq Sustainable Debt Market lists green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds, structured products and commercial papers and is 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 (NSBN) is a global platform that aims to increase transparency for environmental, social and sustainable bonds. It connects issuers of sustainable bonds with investors, empowering them to evaluate impact and make informed investment decisions on sustainable bonds.
Other Solutions & Services
We strive to enable positive outcomes through the broader economic and societal impact of our solutions and services – creating opportunities for businesses to grow, addressing the world’s growing financial crime problems and making sure our markets are resilient.
Capital Markets Technology ->
In addition to owning and operating 18 exchanges in North America and the Nordics, Nasdaq’s Capital Markets Technology solutions provide exchanges, clearinghouses, central security depositories (CSDs), central banks and other critical ecosystem participants with institutional-grade mission-critical market capabilities. Our acquisition of Adenza expanded our footprint more deeply into the banking ecosystem.
Regulatory Technology ->
Nasdaq’s Regulatory Technology solutions provide banks, broker dealers and exchanges and regulators in developed and emerging economies with robust market monitoring and market surveillance solutions.
With the acquisition of Adenza, our portfolio now encompasses multijurisdictional risk and financial regulatory reporting across liquidity, capital and credit, operations, trade and transaction reporting and ESG through the AxiomSL platform.
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 leverages the latest innovations, including AI and cloud technology, to protect the wider financial ecosystem by helping institutions more effectively fight financial crime.
Nasdaq Risk Modelling for Catastrophes ->
Nasdaq Risk Modelling for Catastrophes is an independent, multi-vendor risk modeling solution for reinsurance firms.
Listings – U.S. ->
The challenges faced by our 2,500+ small and micro-cap issuers are top of mind for Nasdaq, and we serve as a resource through customized programming and advocacy.
First North Growth Market ->
Nasdaq First North Growth Market is a leading European SME market that enables aspiring companies to access the public market. Nasdaq First North advisers facilitate a smooth listing process and a range of investors access the market, from retail investors to institutional capital.