Trading all Nordic equities on one platform
NASDAQ OMX Nordic serves as a central gateway to the Nordic financial market, offering listing and trading services for among others; issuers, banks and brokers and market data vendors. NASDAQ OMX Nordic comprises 790 companies including its alternative markets (MTFs) First North and offers trading in equities, derivatives, fixed income and more. The trading offering also includes Norwegian large cap equities. NASDAQ OMX Nordic is not a legal entity but describes the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Iceland.
Share trading quick facts
• 790 listed companies – including one of Europe’s leading
marketplaces for growth companies First North
• Total market cap EUR 641 billion
• Average value/trading day EUR 2.7 billion
• Average trades/trading day 287,100
• Total of 174 cash equity trading members
Distribution of membership types at NASDAQ OMX Nordic
A global growth market
• The Nordic markets have historically given investors a very good return on investment.
• Over the past year Nordic shares have consistently performed better than other regions in the world.
Index development 2009
Home to world-leading companies
• Many of the Nordic listed companies have long been global in their business view. NASDAQ OMX Nordic gives you the possibility, simply and easily, to create a portfolio with a good risk spread.
• The Nordic equity market has a broad offering in the different sectors and a large number of growth companies.
• GICS industry classification.
Sector breakdown by market cap for NASDAQ OMX Nordic listings
NASDAQ OMX Nordic is:
• Europe’s largest market for the IT sector (Nokia, Ericsson)
• Europe’s second largest market for the Industrials sector (Volvo, Maersk, Vestas)
• The world’s largest market for Paper Products (UPM, Stora Enso, SCA)
• The world’s second largest market for Apparel Fashion Retail (H&M, Björn Borg)
• The world’s third largest market for Machinery (Sandvik, Atlas Copco, KONE)
Note: All data current as of January 31, 2010
Competitive membership offering
• Trading on NASDAQ OMX Nordic is simple. The whole of the Nordic offering is accessible with one connection and one common rulebook.
• No membership fee to become a new equity trading member.
• Single application for up to four memberships: Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Iceland.
• Trading Norwegian equities. A membership at NASDAQ OMX Stockholm also includes the possibility to trade the 30 most traded equities listed in Norway.
• Zero marginal cost. If you are already a member of one NASDAQ OMX Nordic exchange an additional membership comes at no cost.
• Attractive pricing. Minimum monthly fee EUR 900, payable to only one of the NASDAQ OMX Nordic exchanges.
High-speed trading platform
• Since February 2010, the NASDAQ OMX Nordic share trading runs on INET, creating the flexibility and scale to meet traders’ fast-changing needs.
• Global platform. INET is utilized across all NASDAQ OMX’s U.S. and European equity markets.
• Low latency – High capacity. The INET platform is capable of handling more than 1 million messages per second at sub-250 microsecond average speeds.
• Single point of access. All NASDAQ OMX Nordic equity markets trade in the same trading system.
Efficient post trade model
• Central Counterparty clearing (CCP). NASDAQ OMX Nordic, together with the European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF), has introduced a CCP service for cash equity trading on our Nordic exchanges.
• The CCP service is currently available for trading of shares in the most traded companies in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo. The CCP service also covers all traded ETFs and all Helsinki traded mid cap companies.
Value added services
• Proximity services
• Sponsored access
• Front end offering – Nordic Workstation
