Nasdaq at Bank of America 31th Annual Financials CEO Conference: growth shift
On Thursday, September 24, 2026, Nasdaq CEO Sarah Youngwood addressed the Bank of America 31st Annual Financials CEO Conference to highlight the company's evolution beyond its traditional role as an exchange operator. Youngwood emphasized that Nasdaq is now built around data, software, and market infrastructure, with a significant portion of its revenue now coming from non-trading businesses.
The CFO revealed that approximately 80% of the company's revenue now stems from data, indexing, corporate services, marketplace technology, and financial crime management tools.
Nasdaq is set to launch Nasdaq Equity Tokens in the second quarter of 2027, a product designed to maintain a single liquidity pool, unlike competing models that may fragment liquidity across multiple wrappers or venues. The company's strategy has been built around three key technology shifts: cloud computing, distributed ledger technology, and artificial intelligence, including generative AI.
These shifts have allowed Nasdaq to broaden its revenue mix, with exchange and listing services now accounting for only 30% of the company's revenue.
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