NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "Today's meeting organized by the SEC was an important and constructive step forward to address the soundness and reliability of critical infrastructure underpinning the U.S. capital markets. The recommendations discussed today with regulators and key industry participants are designed to accomplish three overarching objectives: to improve the operational resiliency of our markets, strengthen interoperability standards between exchanges and market participants, and establish a clear governance and testing framework for the industry.
NASDAQ has the responsibility as a market leader to take all necessary steps to ensure the integrity and reliability of the markets, and we intend to continue to do so in a highly collaborative way with the other exchanges as well as our regulators, recognizing that investor confidence is the cornerstone of a healthy market."
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The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 26 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
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