Nasdaq to Acquire Sybenetix

The acquisition of Sybenetix will further expand Nasdaq's leadership in the surveillance space and make it a leading provider to the buy-side industry

NEW YORK & LONDON, July 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sybenetix, a leading surveillance provider that combines behavioral analytics and cognitive computing with financial markets expertise. Sybenetix's technology offering is designed to solve key surveillance challenges facing the asset management industry.  

The addition of Sybenetix to Nasdaq's Risk & Surveillance suite of solutions, including SMARTS and TradeGuard, will allow Nasdaq to bring deeper technology savviness and expertise to buy-side compliance officers across the global capital markets who require future-focused surveillance capabilities to protect their firms. Sybenetix's behavioral science technology will further strengthen Nasdaq's conduct surveillance offering, which will provide a holistic view of behavioral risks across trade, ecomms, acomms, and other monitoring and surveillance functions. This will also help support compliance departments in addressing complex regulations and policies-both current and on the horizon-such as MAR, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, Regulation Automated Trading, trader conduct & remuneration, personal account dealing and fair investment allocation.

"Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face," said Adena Friedman, President and CEO of Nasdaq. "We believe behavioral science, cognitive computing and machine intelligence are essential to a successful, holistic surveillance offering and critical to efficient and effective organizational compliance with an increasingly intricate global regulatory environment. As such, we are thrilled to welcome the talented technology team and clients from Sybenetix. Their bespoke compliance, surveillance and performance management technology can meet the needs of the world's largest asset managers and will be complementary to Nasdaq's Risk and Surveillance suite. This acquisition accelerates our offering to the buy-side and advances our ambitions to expand market integrity controls into all segments of the capital markets."