no 02/13 Danske Commodities joins NASDAQ OMX Commodities as Client Representative


NASDAQ OMX Commodities announces that Danske Commodities has joined the Nordic power market as a Client Representative in addition to their current Non-Clearing Membership.  

“We are very pleased to have become a Client Representative at NASDAQ OMX Commodities. We want to provide our customers with a gateway to the Nordic energy market, and our new status allows us to provide our services to customers wishing to clear positions at NASDAQ OMX Commodities”, said Peter Wager, Head of Wholesale at Danske Commodities. 

Geir Reigstad, Head of NASDAQ OMX Commodities, said: “NASDAQ OMX Commodities is very pleased that Danske Commodities has joined the Nordic power market as a Client Representative. This shows that we continue to focus our efforts along with our members to provide the best solutions in the most efficient power market in the world.” 


For further information please contact Danske Commodities:
Peter Wager, Head of Wholesale, +45 8833 8041, pwa@danskecommodities.com


For further information, please contact NASDAQ OMX Commodities:
Staffan Friberg, Sales Director, phone +46 8 405 62 93, staffan.friberg@nasdaqomx.com


Media contact NASDAQ OMX Commodities:
Sara Aadnesen, Director Corporate Communication, phone +47 9060 0759, sara.aadnesen@nasdaqomx.com

 

About Danske Commodities
Danske Commodities was founded in 2004 with headquarters in Denmark. Danske Commodities is an independent, international trader of energy-related commodities, active in over 30 countries. As well as trading, the company provides customers with energy trading-related services such as asset, consumption, and balancing and risk management – often via customer-tailored products.


About NASDAQ OMX
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 US and Europe, we own and operate 24 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 $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. 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)

About NASDAQ OMX Commodities
NASDAQ OMX Commodities is the brand name for the NASDAQ OMX Group’s worldwide suite of commodity related products and services. The NASDAQ OMX Commodities offerings include power, natural gas and carbon emission markets and clearing services. NASDAQ OMX Commodities is a trademark of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe is the trade name of NASDAQ OMX Oslo ASA which is authorized as a commodity derivatives exchange by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and supervised by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority. All trades with NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe are subject to clearing with NASDAQ OMX Clearing.

NASDAQ OMX Clearing is the trade name of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB which is authorized and supervised as a multi-asset clearinghouse by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in Sweden as well as authorized to conduct clearing operation in Norway by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. 

For more information, visit www.nasdaqomx.com/commodities

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