Stockholm, February 6, 2013 — NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) announces that it has been selected as the supplier of board communications technology to Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest producers of electricity and the largest producer of heat. Swedish-based Vattenfall will implement NASDAQ OMX’s Director’s Desk solution for mobile and secure board communications. NASDAQ OMX was awarded the contract in a public tender issued by Vattenfall.
“Our Director’s Desk solution already has a strong global footprint and the commitment of a world leading organisation such as Vattenfall is a further testament to our technology,” said Adam Kostyal, Senior Vice President at NASDAQ OMX Corporate Client Group. “As board work is becoming increasingly global and as a result also more mobile, Director’s Desk embraces the latest technology in order to make the daily board tasks more efficient while ensuring the highest level of security and confidentiality.”
About Director’s Desk
Directors Desk offers a comprehensive solution designed to improve board communications and effectiveness while relieving corporate executives of the paperwork and time involved in keeping boards informed. Available as a fully hosted solution with no hardware or software to install, it improves board effectiveness while minimizing the time and paperwork involved in keeping directors informed. Through its web-based platform, Directors Desk is accessible 24/7 from any location on the globe. Documents can be easily updated, uploaded or downloaded by the corporate secretary or board members. And, if anyone should have questions about the materials being sent, Directors Desk offers a secure email system so that board members can converse without worrying about who has access to sensitive information.
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About NASDAQ OMX
The inventor and transformer of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies with revolutionary technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 23 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 6 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-80 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 exchanges 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 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 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. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius.
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