How Nasdaq is Growing the World’s Digital Marketplace

Nasdaq has evolved from being the world’s first digital marketplace to a global technology company. CEO Adena Friedman joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how their digital operation has become the model for markets around the world, the surprising importance of regulation as a driver of innovation, and how Nasdaq prepared to keep functioning during the pandemic lockdown.

They also discuss:

• The infrastructure that allows Nasdaq to reliably maintain data rates thousands of times faster than the internet and traffic volumes many times higher than Google searches.
• How smart regulation played a vital role in the evolution of Nasdaq’s resilience.
• Why the Nordic states exemplify a healthy balance between government and business.

Further reading:

• “What’s the Future of Capitalism?” (TED Talk, 2019)
• “Interview with Adena Friedman on COVID-19” (The Economic Club of Washington DC, 2020)
• “Technology Companies and the New Recession” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)

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