Australian Securities Exchange to Adopt Next Generation Trading Platform from NASDAQ OMX

Stockholm/Sydney, February 18, 2010 - The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ)  
and the Australian Securities Exchange Group (ASX:ASX) today announced a        
commitment for the delivery of ASX's next generation trading system - ASX Trade 
powered by NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET trading platform. ASX Trade will replace    
their current integrated equities and derivatives trading platform, and with the
new system will enable significant latency and transaction capacity advantages. 

The Genium INET platform has an average latency of 250 microseconds, and will   
allow ASX Trade to increase the trading capacity to exceed 5 million trades and 
500 million order book changes per day. It will also retain the core            
functionality of the existing system, including the ability to trade equities   
and derivatives on one platform. ASX Trade is scheduled for rollout in the      
second quarter of financial year 2011 (fourth quarter of this calendar year).   

Jeff Olsson, ASX Group Executive Technology, said, “The Genium INET platform    
will underpin ASX's next generation equity trading system and continues the     
longstanding and successful relationship that ASX has with NASDAQ OMX. ASX Trade
will provide a significant improvement in technology performance, which when    
coupled with ASX's co-location facilities, will offer market participants a     
trading experience as fast and efficient as anywhere in the world. This will    
strengthen the global competitiveness of the Australian capital market to the   
benefit of traders, companies and investors alike.”                             

“ASX Trade is at the forefront of a suite of new ASX equity market innovations  
designed to provide tailored services to users with diverse trade execution     
needs. Similar infrastructure and access arrangements to ASX's existing system  
will minimise demand on the technology resources of participants and reduce the 
potential for connectivity disruption during the transition to the Genium       
INET-powered ASX Trade," said Mr. Olsson.                                       

Lars Ottersgard, Senior Vice President NASDAQ OMX Market Technology, said, “ASX 
has always been at the forefront for technology adoption and innovation. Through
our Genium INET platform ASX will be deploying one of the most advanced and     
sophisticated trading systems in the world, delivering speed, capacity,         
scalability and reliability comparable to services offered by the world's       
leading markets.”                                                               

About ASX                                                                       
As one of the world's top‐10 listed exchange groups measured by market          
capitalisation, the ASX Group (ASX:ASX) was created through the merger of the   
Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange. The ASX Group        
operates under the brand Australian Securities Exchange and spans the markets   
for corporate control, capital formation and price discovery, and functions as  
an operator, supervisor, central counterparty clearer and payments system       
facilitator. The diverse domestic and international customer base of the        
Australian Securities Exchange includes issuers of a variety of listed          
securities, corporates, investment banks, trading banks, fund managers, hedge   
funds, commodity trading advisers, and proprietary and retail traders.          
More information on ASX can be found on www.asx.com.au.                         

About NASDAQ OMX                                                                
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers 
trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, 
with approximately 3,700 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital   
raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings    
market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the   
U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes      
including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and     
exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 
exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more   
than 50 countries. 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. For more information
about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on  
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under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about     
NASDAQ OMX's 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. There can be no        
assurance that the FSA will give the NASDAQ OMX applicant the authorization and 
permissions which it seeks.                                                     

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Matthew Gibbs                                                   
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