Nasdaq and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have unveiled a new suite of solutions aimed at supporting market operators in modernising their infrastructure while maintaining high standards of resilience, security and performance.
The initiative builds on the firms’ ongoing partnership and Nasdaq’s own modernisation journey using AWS technologies. The resulting blueprint is designed to support capital market infrastructure providers in addressing industry-wide challenges such as rapid technological change, regulatory pressures and increasing competitive demands.
Adena Friedman, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Nasdaq, commented: “The unique combination of Nasdaq’s technology expertise and AWS’s advanced infrastructure enables us to solve the industry’s most complex challenges that have hampered the growth and scalability of markets around the world. By reducing complicatedness, friction, and fragmentation we are fortifying the financial system with greater connectivity and resilience and enabling a new era of economic growth and prosperity.”
The blueprint focuses on three core components:
- Infrastructure Proximity and Connectivity: By co-locating AWS services, exchange platforms and trading participants’ systems, the solution enables market operators to meet latency, resilience and data control requirements. AWS will also offer connectivity between these environments and its global infrastructure, supporting low-latency operations and high-bandwidth applications.
- Nasdaq Eqlipse Technology Platform: A next-generation, cloud-ready platform, Nasdaq Eqlipse integrates modular capabilities and interoperable APIs across the trade lifecycle. It includes Nasdaq Eqlipse Intelligence, a new data and analytics solution designed to enable market operators to scale AI deployment and improve decision-making.
- Services Deployment Model: Combining Nasdaq and AWS’s capital markets expertise, this model offers operational support and advisory services to reduce the complexity and risk of transformation efforts, allowing market operators to accelerate innovation and product development.
Key benefits of the blueprint include enhanced liquidity, improved time-to-market, and the ability to attract global capital through standardised, transparent and AI-enabled market infrastructure. The model also supports local and global market connectivity through AWS’s network and data routing capabilities.
“Building on our 15-year partnership, Nasdaq and AWS are furthering our shared vision to develop technology that simplifies and streamlines capital markets,” commented Matt Garman, CEO at AWS. “Together, we are helping market operators provide seamless connectivity for markets and investors anywhere in the world, with a blueprint for modernisation and innovation, and the ability to unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth in capital markets.”
Nasdaq has already begun implementing the blueprint with several partners. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is working with Nasdaq on services for colocation, data intelligence and client engagement. Grupo BMV in Mexico is exploring how to extend its existing collaboration with Nasdaq to adopt the new service model. Meanwhile, Nasdaq’s Nordic markets have announced plans to modernise their infrastructure, beginning with the derivatives market, using AWS-powered GPU infrastructure at Nasdaq’s Swedish data centre.
Roland Chai, President of European Market Services, Nasdaq, commented: “The success of Nasdaq’s Nordic markets has demonstrated the extraordinary power of modern market infrastructure to attract international sources of capital. Incorporating AWS’s advanced cloud infrastructure is expected to elevate our markets on the global stage and help to power the next generation of growth across Europe.”
These developments are subject to regulatory approval and ongoing consultation with the relevant authorities.
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