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Adena Friedman

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The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

on the back of being that product manager. That was one of the great, you know, one defining moment. I think that then we had a new CEO come in in 2003 and he was very different, came from the technology industry. He was not coming from the banking side.

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The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

He was coming from the software side and it was fantastic because he really changed the way that we thought about our business, but it was all about product. So I think that definitely played to my strengths. He then made me head of strategy and head of data and then ultimately CFO. I then went to Carlisle. I came back as president and then became CEO eight years ago.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

He was coming from the software side and it was fantastic because he really changed the way that we thought about our business, but it was all about product. So I think that definitely played to my strengths. He then made me head of strategy and head of data and then ultimately CFO. I then went to Carlisle. I came back as president and then became CEO eight years ago.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

He was coming from the software side and it was fantastic because he really changed the way that we thought about our business, but it was all about product. So I think that definitely played to my strengths. He then made me head of strategy and head of data and then ultimately CFO. I then went to Carlisle. I came back as president and then became CEO eight years ago.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So it's been a wonderful journey here. I've been really, really fortunate.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So it's been a wonderful journey here. I've been really, really fortunate.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So it's been a wonderful journey here. I've been really, really fortunate.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are a technology provider to the entire financial industry. We start with our own markets and our own markets are incredible and we have incredible technology that underpin our markets. But we made a decision a long time ago to also wanna provide that technology to other markets. So we now provide core critical infrastructure technology to 130 marketplaces around the world.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are a technology provider to the entire financial industry. We start with our own markets and our own markets are incredible and we have incredible technology that underpin our markets. But we made a decision a long time ago to also wanna provide that technology to other markets. So we now provide core critical infrastructure technology to 130 marketplaces around the world.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are a technology provider to the entire financial industry. We start with our own markets and our own markets are incredible and we have incredible technology that underpin our markets. But we made a decision a long time ago to also wanna provide that technology to other markets. So we now provide core critical infrastructure technology to 130 marketplaces around the world.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are really, we underpin a lot of markets in terms of trading, clearing, settlement technology. We also provide a whole suite, a very complete suite of trade operations as well as risk management and anti-financial crime technology to banks and brokers all over the world. We have 3,800 customers. who leverage our technology for that purpose.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are really, we underpin a lot of markets in terms of trading, clearing, settlement technology. We also provide a whole suite, a very complete suite of trade operations as well as risk management and anti-financial crime technology to banks and brokers all over the world. We have 3,800 customers. who leverage our technology for that purpose.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

So we are really, we underpin a lot of markets in terms of trading, clearing, settlement technology. We also provide a whole suite, a very complete suite of trade operations as well as risk management and anti-financial crime technology to banks and brokers all over the world. We have 3,800 customers. who leverage our technology for that purpose.

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

And then we also provide amazing data analytics that help corporates and investors find each other more successfully and build investment strategies around our index business in ways that really help redefine the investor experience. So we have data analytics, we have software, and then we have our core markets. And that's how we've kind of

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

And then we also provide amazing data analytics that help corporates and investors find each other more successfully and build investment strategies around our index business in ways that really help redefine the investor experience. So we have data analytics, we have software, and then we have our core markets. And that's how we've kind of

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

And then we also provide amazing data analytics that help corporates and investors find each other more successfully and build investment strategies around our index business in ways that really help redefine the investor experience. So we have data analytics, we have software, and then we have our core markets. And that's how we've kind of

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

organized us we are ultimately though the foundation of us as a market you know we have these great corporate relationships investor relationships broker-dealer relationships and we um really uh center around three themes liquidity how do we drive more liquidity across markets in the world and into our markets how do we drive more transparency to transparency how do we make the entire financial system more transparent

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

organized us we are ultimately though the foundation of us as a market you know we have these great corporate relationships investor relationships broker-dealer relationships and we um really uh center around three themes liquidity how do we drive more liquidity across markets in the world and into our markets how do we drive more transparency to transparency how do we make the entire financial system more transparent

Redefiners
The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

organized us we are ultimately though the foundation of us as a market you know we have these great corporate relationships investor relationships broker-dealer relationships and we um really uh center around three themes liquidity how do we drive more liquidity across markets in the world and into our markets how do we drive more transparency to transparency how do we make the entire financial system more transparent

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The Only Certainty Is Change: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on AI, Innovation & Market Evolution

And then third, of course, is integrity. How do we drive integrity across the financial system? And all three of those key themes are really the underpinning of us as a market.