Nasdaq advances sustainability strategy across capital markets operations

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Nasdaq advances its sustainability strategy by integrating environmental priorities into both its internal operations and external client services across global capital markets.
Chair and CEO Adena T. Friedman highlights sustained, long-term impact as foundational, citing recent progress that supports ongoing momentum for clients and communities.
Nasdaq emphasizes a governance framework prioritizing shareholder interests, transparency, and independent board oversight, embedding sustainability within strategic planning and operational oversight.

Sustainability priorities across operations and client services

As reported by Nasdaq, the company is pursuing a sustainability agenda focused both on internal business risks and opportunities and on the external impact of products and services designed to support clients’ sustainability objectives.

Nasdaq says its work includes advancing liquidity, transparency and integrity across the global financial system while making capital markets more sustainable and inclusive. The company describes its position at the center of capital markets and technology as giving it a role in helping corporates, investors and financial institutions pursue strategic sustainability goals.

Adena T. Friedman, chair and chief executive officer of Nasdaq, says the most successful sustainability initiatives are those that can be sustained over the long term. She says groundwork laid in recent years supports continued momentum and greater impact for clients and communities worldwide.

Governance framework and business resilience focus

Nasdaq says it aims to create lasting value for its business and stakeholders by strengthening resilience, managing long-term risks and advancing sustainability across the organization. That framing places sustainability alongside operational oversight and strategic planning rather than as a standalone corporate initiative.

The company also says its governance framework is designed around shareholder interests, with an emphasis on transparency and independent board oversight. Nasdaq says the structure is intended to give its board the tools to review operations and make decisions independently of management and in shareholders’ best interests.

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