About

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products is a full-service index provider specializing in the design and development of indexes associated with NASDAQ's brand themes of innovation, technology, growth and globalization. In addition to index design, NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products provides calculation, licensing and marketing services as well as custom index solutions as a third-party provider to select financial organizations.

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products is proud to serve over 150 clients representing prominent investment banks and institutions from around the world. Some of our esteemed clients include:

NASDAQ Services

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products offers custom index design services tailored to the specific investment objectives or strategies of product issuers, sponsor and distributors.

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products calculates and disseminates indexes real-time and end-of-day in price return and total return variations. Additionally, GFP calculates and disseminates indexes that are broad market, industry sector, country or theme-based. GFP�s index data is available through two products - NASDAQ OMX Index Dissemination Service (NIDS)SM and NASDAQ Index Watch.

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products handles the administration of indexes for ongoing maintenance and continuity. Index administration requires daily review and maintenance to ensure the integrity of all the indexes NASDAQ OMX calculates and disseminates. We track corporate actions daily to determine potential component or share changes and offsetting divisor adjustments. Week-to-week, we monitor total shares outstanding and schedule share changes to index components, as necessary, in relation to the relevant index thresholds.

NASDAQ OMX Global Financial Products licenses its indexes to investors, asset managers and financial institutions worldwide to issue, sponsor, or distribute a variety of financial instruments. Various licensing arrangements are available to our clients depending on the nature of the financial instrument and/or the scope of the index license.

NASDAQ Financial Products promotes third-party indexes as vigorously as its own branded indexes. We are able to market third-party indexes to our current and prospective customers through various direct communications, a consistent advertising campaign in trade publications, calling programs and international and domestic conferences.

NASDAQ Indexes

NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture Index
NASDAQ OMX Ireland Index
NASDAQ OMX Carbon Excess Return Index
NASDAQ OMX® Clean Edge® Global Wind Energy Index
NASDAQ OMX Middle East North Africa Index
NASDAQ OMX 100 Index
OMX Stockholm 30 Index
NASDAQ Q-50 Index
NASDAQ Composite Index
NASDAQ-100 Index
NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index
NASDAQ Biotechnology Index
NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index

NASDAQ Composite Index
NASDAQ-100 Index
NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index
NASDAQ Q-50 Index
NASDAQ Capital Market Composite Index
NASDAQ Global Market Composite Index
NASDAQ Global Select Market Composite Index
FTSE NASDAQ 500 Index
FTSE NASDAQ Large Cap Index
FTSE NASDAQ Mid Cap Index
FTSE NASDAQ Small Cap Index

NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture Index
NASDAQ OMX® Clean Edge® Global Wind Energy Index
NASDAQ Internet Index
NASDAQ Bank Index
NASDAQ Biotechnology Index
NASDAQ Biotechnology Equal Weighted Index
NASDAQ Computer Index
NASDAQ Financial-100 Index
NASDAQ Other Finance Index
NASDAQ Dallas Regional Chamber
NASDAQ Health Care Index
NASDAQ Industrial Index
NASDAQ Insurance Index
NASDAQ Telecommunications Index
NASDAQ Transportation Index
NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector Index
NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index

NASDAQ OMX Ireland Index
NASDAQ OMX Middle East North Africa Index
NASDAQ China Index
NASDAQ Israel Index
NASDAQ Israel Total Return Index

ABA Community Bank NASDAQ Index
BetterInvesting 100 Index
BetterInvesting 100 Total Return Index
CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index
NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index
NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Total Return Index
NASDAQ Dividend Achievers Index
NASDAQ Dividend Achievers Total Return Index
NASDAQ NeuroInsights Neurotech Index
FTSE NASDAQ 500 Index
FTSE NASDAQ Large Cap Index
FTSE NASDAQ Mid Cap Index
FTSE NASDAQ Small Cap Index
The NASDAQ OMX AeA Illinois Tech Index

NASDAQ OMX Carbon Excess Return Index
OMX Copenhagen 20 Index
OMX Nordic 40
OMX Stockholm 30
OMX Iceland 15
OMX Baltic 10
OMX Helsinki 25
VINX 30 Index

PHLX Gold/Silver Sector
PHLX Housing Sector
PHLX Oil Service Sector
PHLX Semiconductor Sector
PHLX Utility Sector
PHLX Defense Sector

NASDAQ Data Products

NASDAQ Index Watch is an indispensable tool for investment professionals who track NASDAQ indexes or trade NASDAQ index-related derivative instruments. It is the single source of complete NASDAQ index data, except for the real-time index values themselves, that provides access to premium NASDAQ indexes for one annual fee. NASDAQ Index Watch tracks daily changes to the composition and weighting of NASDAQ indexes, reports advanced notice of corporate actions for select NASDAQ indexes, and maintains a historical record of the values, composition, weighting and divisors of those indexes, among other essential index information.

Real-time index values are available every 15 seconds throughout each trading day, enabling investors and traders to gauge the market's performance and make buy and sell decisions - whether they are trading index-based instruments or trading the securities underlying an index. Real-time index values are ordinarily provided to market data distributors and electronic data vendors at a standard fee to display NASDAQ index data on their internet- and terminal-based devices. As a standard, no-cost, data alternative, NASDAQ provides delayed intra-day index values throughout the trading day that allow investors to track all NASDAQ indexes via www.nasdaq.com.

The NASDAQ Index Weightings and Components file provides users with the start-of-day constituents and weights of several NASDAQ indexes on a daily basis. Traders and investors receive automated access to premium NASDAQ indexes for one fee.

• America's Community Bankers NASDAQ Index
• NASDAQ-100 Index
• NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index
• NASDAQ Biotechnology Index
• NASDAQ Biotechnology Equal Weighted Index
• NASDAQ Dividend Achievers Index
• NASDAQ Composite Index
• NASDAQ Financial-100 Index

NASDAQ Markets

NASDAQ has developed an equity and index options market based on its corporate principles of openness, fairness, transparency and speed, which is pending SEC approval and anticipated to launch in late 2007. The new NASDAQ Options Market is built on the integrated NASDAQ platform and features price/time priority allocation with no designated market makers. All NASDAQ members can participate and price improvement is offered to users on an immediate and automatic basis. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqtrader.com/options.

Leveraging NASDAQ's strength in trading, indexing and investor outreach, NASDAQ has created the NASDAQ ETF Market, designed specifically for exchange traded funds and index-linked notes. NASDAQ is best positioned to help sponsors create, grow and evolve ETFs into liquid investment tools. By trading volume, NASDAQ is the world's largest exchange for ETFs. The NASDAQ ETF Market provides less-liquid ETFs with a designated Liquidity Provider that is incentive-based to trade qualified ETFs. It offers a structure for issuers and traders to interact based on the needs of the issuer as they vary throughout the life cycle of the ETF. ETF issuers may choose one or multiple ETF Liquidity Providers. NASDAQ requires that ETF Liquidity Providers maintain a market quality standard measured by spread, depth and time quoting at or near the inside quote. In return, NASDAQ gives ETF Liquidity Providers a preferred rebate program. To learn more, visit www.nasdaq.com.

NASDAQ has managed the process to designate 144A securities as PORTAL securities since 1990. Serving the investment needs of broker-dealers, qualified institutional buyers and private and public companies from around the world, the NASDAQ PORTAL MarketSM facilitates the quoting and trading of unregistered securities eligible to be resold pursuant to SEC Rule 144A. PORTAL provides regulatory review of qualified 144A equity, fixed income and derivative securities that, in turn, allows those securities access to the clearance and settlement services of the Depository Trust Company (DTC). NASDAQ created a new, customized trading system exclusively for 144A debt and equity securities providing a transparent, one-stop solution from negotiation through settlement. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqportalmarket.com or email portal@nasdaq.com.

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General Questions - indexes@nasdaqomx.com



License NASDAQ Indexes - nasdaqlicensing@nasdaqomx.com



Phone: +1.301.978.8284

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