Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced the appointment of a new Chairman and two non-executive members of the Board of Nasdaq Nordic Ltd: Peter Norman, as the new Chairman, and Carl Löfgren and Merja Karhapää as Board members. Lars Wedenborn, Chairman of Nasdaq Nordic, has stepped down after serving on the Board for nine years and…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced that Moment Group AB, a small cap company within the consumer services sector, will start trading of its shares on the main market of Nasdaq Stockholm. Moment Group was previously listed on Nasdaq First North Premier and is the 62nd company to list on Nasdaq’s Nordic markets in 2018. Moment…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced the launch of futures based on the recently launched OMXS30 ESG Responsible index (OMXS30ESG). The product is the first exchange listed and ESG compliant index future in the world. In recent years we have seen institutions increase efforts to integrate sustainability into their investment strategies, with the Nordic region being…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) have announced a ten-year extension of CME Group's exclusive license to offer futures and options on futures based on the Nasdaq-100 and other Nasdaq indexes, through 2029. We are extremely pleased to extend our exclusive licensing agreement with Nasdaq, said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced the launch of two new market segments in Stockholm – Nasdaq Stockholm Sustainable Commercial Papers and Nasdaq Stockholm Sustainable Products. The new market segments will list sustainable commercial papers and structured products, respectively, and follows the strong growth of Nasdaq’s Sustainable Bond Market. The launch of these two segments further…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has announced that it has welcomed 52 new listings to its Nordic markets during the first half (1H) of 2018, raising 2.4 billion EUR in capital. Twenty-three of the new listings were on the Main Market, while 29 occurred on Nasdaq’s European growth market, Nasdaq First North. We have experienced a very…
Read moreNasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that the number of listed companies across its Nordic and Baltic markets will exceed 1,000, as Kojamo enters the Nasdaq Helsinki Main Market while Arion Bank completes its dual listing on the Nasdaq Iceland and Nasdaq Stockholm Main Markets. This is the first time ever the total number of listed…
Read moreNasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that Nasdaq Helsinki is launching a new sustainable bond market segment on the Main Market. The first green bond issuer is Municipality Finance Plc (MuniFin). MuniFin is listing its two green bonds on the Nasdaq Helsinki Sustainable Bond Market. Its first green bond was issued in September 2016. The transaction…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that Nasdaq First North has been granted UK Growth Market status, the first marketplace outside of the UK to achieve this status. The new status means that UK-based investors will receive tax exemptions on investments in UK-based companies listed on Nasdaq First North, and is yet another step towards making…
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