The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announces that AS DnB NORD Banka has been approved as a member on the NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market stock exchanges in Tallinn and Vilnius as of March 2, 2009. DnB NORD Banka is already a member at NASDAQ OMX Riga, and thereby becomes the 28th pan-Baltic member. The membership in all three Baltic exchanges gives DnB NORD Banka and its clients direct access to trading with shares of 94 companies, 90 debt securities and 9 funds listed on the Baltic market. „One of DnB NORD Banka business priorities this year is the development and improvement of our investment products and services, and the pan-Baltic membership secures our position in the Baltic region, offering wider and faster ways of trading financial instruments,” says Uldis Bušs, Head of Financial Markets Department at DnB NORD Banka. DnB NORD Banka will trade on the NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market under the trading code NLB. The NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market stock exchanges have 42 members altogether. NASDAQ OMX Riga +371 67212431