Adena Friedman

“So this morning we announced that we're going to be bringing tokenization into our markets. So making sure that equities are tokenized and traded on market in the markets not in a side sleeve but actually in the core markets.”

— From The New Era of the Stock Market with Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman | All-In Summit 2025, Family Cartoon (September 09, 2025)

“I do think that the Fed, we've benefited for almost 250 years on having Fed independence. I think that it's important to allow the Fed to think long term and that's why the term of the Fed chair six years, to think longer term than through individual political cycles and to be data dependent.”

— From The New Era of the Stock Market with Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman | All-In Summit 2025, Family Cartoon (September 09, 2025)

“The trading 235 is already happening. It's just happening in the dark. Our systems today open at 4:00 a.m. and we allow trading to start then and they close at 8:00 p.m. So, we are already trading outside of US market hours, but what we're doing is basically expanding that.”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on the Future of 23-5 Trading | At Barron's, Barron's (May 15, 2026)

“We've worked on with the industry is to bring the consolidated tape so that you have central transparency of all of the trading and quoting activity that's occurring in the lit venues and the dark pools around the world. The second thing is that we're going to put limits, you know, up limit up limit downs, to make it s...”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on the Future of 23-5 Trading | At Barron's, Barron's (May 15, 2026)

“We've been on a journey with the government for many years to think about how do you make IPOs great again? You know, how do you make it so that companies can come public and it isn't such a huge change to their existence. So we focus in things of disclosure reforms and changes potentially to the timing of disclosures...”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on the Future of 23-5 Trading | At Barron's, Barron's (May 15, 2026)

“There's litigation reform, and that's an area where Chair Atkins has been very proactive in thinking about allowing companies to be public with mandatory arbitration as opposed to necessarily being subject to class action lawsuits. And so I think those types of reforms are really important to make the change from the p...”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on the Future of 23-5 Trading | At Barron's, Barron's (May 15, 2026)

“We really are an advanced technology company that powers the capital markets and the broader financial system. We say our vision is to be the trusted fabric of the world's financial system. So we think about that in terms of being kind of the center of the economy from a markets perspective.”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on the Future of 23-5 Trading | At Barron's, Barron's (May 15, 2026)

“Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed.”

— From Tech Talks Business Featuring Adena Friedman, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business (April 17, 2026)

“The NASDAQ 100 is the only index in the United States that's tied to where you list.”

— From Adena T. Friedman, Chair and CEO of Nasdaq, Inc., The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. (March 11, 2026)

“It's about a $4 trillion problem in terms of money laundering and fraud that occurs across the global banking system.”

— From Adena T. Friedman, Chair and CEO of Nasdaq, Inc., The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. (March 11, 2026)

“It takes time and investment — the technology is often ahead of its applications — so businesses must ensure AI is safe and secure, creates predictable outcomes, and, particularly in the financial industry, that models are explainable to regulators; there needs to be governance set up.”

— From How AI Is Really Creating Value in Financial Markets | Adena Friedman, Imagination in Action (January 20, 2025)

“We own an incredible solution called Verafin which aggregates data from thousands of banks and evaluates roughly 1.8 billion transactions a week, allowing us to detect fraud across the entire financial system and reduce false positives.”

— From How AI Is Really Creating Value in Financial Markets | Adena Friedman, Imagination in Action (January 20, 2025)

“In the case of some companies, we could be as much as a 4% owner of their shares, which creates a really nice long-term passive ownership.”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman Talks Earnings Season | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (January 29, 2026)

“We view regulation as an important balance and an important underpinning of markets for the purpose of investor protection, with guard rails necessary to make sure that investors have a sustainable, lasting experience. The CFTC and the SEC are working together better than we've ever seen before because a lot of these p...”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman Talks Earnings Season | Bloomberg Talks, Bloomberg Podcasts (January 29, 2026)

“We had a 72% win rate for IPOs and overall switched $1.2 trillion of market cap to NASDAQ; going into 2026, we see a lot of momentum across our business.”

— From Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on Q4 results: See a lot of momentum going into 2026, CNBC Television (January 29, 2026)