NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA), an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom (UK), today announced that the FSA has selected NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS Integrity market surveillance system to further enhance the FSA's monitoring of transaction reports across the UK's financial markets.
SMARTS Integrity will provide the FSA with a surveillance platform for the detection of market abuse across financial instruments admitted to trading on regulated or prescribed markets including any underlying derivatives. SMARTS Integrity will also afford the FSA with a platform that is scalable and extensible to meet future European legislation such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
Paul McKeown, Vice President, Market Technology at NASDAQ OMX, said: "We are thrilled to be supporting the FSA in their regulatory endeavors. This new partnership marks an important achievement for our SMARTS Integrity product in the European marketplace, with more than 55 percent of all European equity trading now being monitored through our software. As regulatory issues and requirements continue to evolve around the world, we look forward to working with other regulators like the FSA to investigate market abuse through our best-in-class systems for market surveillance."
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The matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about SMARTS Integrity and NASDAQ OMX's other products and offerings. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond NASDAQ OMX's control. These factors include, but are not limited to factors detailed in NASDAQ OMX's annual report on Form 10-K, and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements.
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