NASDAQ OMX Nordic offers Sponsored Access (SA) for both cash equity and derivatives markets members

Sponsored Access allows NASDAQ OMX Nordic members to give their clients the ability to connect directly to the NASDAQ OMX Nordic matching engine and trade under their membership identity.

Particularly suited for High Frequency Trading and Algorithmic Trading clients, Sponsored Access can be combined with our Co-location Services to provide market access with the lowest possible latency.

Key benefits for the Sponsoring Member:

• Establish new and/or extend business relationships by promoting sponsored access to your clients
• NASDAQ OMX Nordic Pre-Trade Risk Management (PRM) service available to facilitate pre-trade protection for the sponsoring member, including an administration interface accessible via the Nordic Workstation (INET only).
• Real-time monitoring of the sponsored client activity via dedicated feeds for the sponsoring member
• "Order Reject and Cancel on-disconnect" for the sponsoring member: in case of disconnect from the monitoring feed, it will trigger order entry prevention and open orders cancellation (INET-FIX drop only).

Key benefits for the Sponsored Client: 

• Ideal for Algorithmic Trading
• Ultra low latency available via Co-location Services
   

List of some of the Members offering Sponsored Access to NASDAQ OMX Nordic »

Sponsored Access is a service regulated by the Nordic Member Rules for cash equity trading and Rules and Regulations for Derivatives Markets and in agreement with all the Nordic Financial Supervision Authorities.

For more details refer to:

• Nordic Member Rules section 4.10 for equities markets
• Rules and Regulations for NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Markets section 2.9

Useful documentation and links:

Sponsored Access fact sheet 

Pre-Trade Risk Management (PRM) »

Pre-Trade Risk Management (PRM) Service Guide (Updated 2012-08-28)
Co-location Services »
NODE, Access Points in London »

INET Core Technology »

Algorithmic Trading »

For more information about Sponsored Access please contact your Key Account Manager