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| In addition, our Anti-Financial Crime division delivered -- continued to deliver strong results with solid growth in our Surveillance business and Verafin continuing to demonstrate strong new customer growth, as well as an expansion contract with the Tier 2 clients |
| Nevertheless, we experienced modestly improving momentum in our Listings business amid a gradual re-emergence of the U.S |
| Nasdaq continues to execute against the strategic vision to become the trusted fabric of the global financial system, delivering broad-based growth across our businesses, including 6% overall net revenue growth and 8% year-over-year organic revenue growth in our Solutions Businesses |
| Surveillance revenues grew 9% compared to the third quarter of '22 with continued customer growth including Tier 3 banks and retail brokers |
| So we feel really well positioned to do all of those things in the priority order that I listed |
| I'm proud of the team's efforts to continue to serve our clients and I'm pleased to see our revenue growth improving in the third quarter, aided by strong performance in our Capital Access Platforms division, particularly in our Index business |
| Across the company, as we've discussed before, Nasdaq is well-positioned to thrive by capitalizing on three key megatrends that are shaping the financial system: the modernization of markets, the development of the corporate and investor ecosystem for environmental sustainability, and the increasing need for integrity solutions across the financial system, including risk management, surveillance, regulatory compliance and anti-financial crime technology |
| By aligning our business to these key megatrends, we're unlocking attractive opportunities for sustainable growth and we're building a diversified business that's well-positioned to succeed through economic cycles |
| But our relationship with AWS, we think will be a benefit |
| First, our focus on market modernization continues to deliver innovation that enhances the liquidity and underlying market infrastructure that powers the world's economies |
| We also definitely see benefit in the cloud infrastructure that we have |
| We continue to see good opportunity to continue to grow in that 18% to 23% growth rate that we've been experiencing |
| In terms of just the general growth characteristics of the anti-fin crime business, we're very pleased with the progress |
| But having a healthy -- general healthy market environment certainly helps create even more opportunity for us |
| When it comes to Market Tech and Anti-Fin Crime though, those are really good solid demand businesses where exchanges are very, very focused on bringing their technology into the future, and we now have -- I think we've done a nice job of really getting to a state of maturity across our CSD solution, our next-gen clearing solution, our next-gen trading solution, so -- and our risk management solutions there |
| But I think that you're right that we're really pleased to see the Solutions Businesses revenue growth really returning into the medium-term outlook that we're -- we have been communicating to you all for a while now |
| We're really, really proud of the team |
| So it was really nice to see a high win way at Nasdaq this quarter, including several big IPOs |
| So we're really pleased with the momentum |
| We are benefiting from the knowledge across all of these banks and the experience in what they're seeing to continue to tune our engines and to build out the solutions |
| I think that it allows us to benefit from another great large technology company |
| I'm pleased to report Nasdaq's continued solid financial performance in the third quarter of 2023 |
| I think, as I mentioned, there continues to be a really nice strong demand generally for the solutions |
| These new customer wins reflect our ability to drive growth beyond our leadership position with large banks and expand into new customer segments |
| In Marketplace Technology, we delivered 3% organic revenue growth, reflecting solid revenue growth in our Market Technology business |
| Our balance sheet remains solid and our cash flow generation is strong, including $1.6 billion of free cash flow on a trailing 12-month basis |
| While AUM has benefited from a strong year-to-date market performance, we saw AUM impacted by overall markets trending lower in the last two months of the quarter |
| We remain well-positioned to support organic growth, execute on the deleveraging plan we announced with the Adenza acquisition, increase our dividend payout ratio over time and repurchase shares to minimize dilution |
| In closing today, Nasdaq's third quarter results reflect the continuation of the Company's ability to perform consistently well across a wide range of operating environments |
| The performance in our Index business reflects strong year-over-year market performance, $24 billion in net inflows over the past 12 months, including $5 million in the third quarter and strong features capture, partially offset by lower derivatives volumes |
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| Trading Services organic revenue was down 2% driven by lower European trading revenues due to lower volumes |
| But the one thing we don't do is just chase share that just is fleeting, that if you chase that share, you can really have a significant negative impact on capture, and frankly, not get share that's additive to the NBBO (ph) not get share that brings other on their volume in |
| But there's some concerns around fraud that might limit the uptake by institutions |
| This growth rate is lower compared to prior periods due to slower Trade Management Services growth resulting from near term market conditions |
| Market Platforms operating margin was 52% in the third quarter of 2023, representing a 370 basis point decrease from the prior year period due to lower revenue, resulting from lower European trading activity, as well as higher compensation costs, ongoing investments related to migrating U.S |
| We were horrified by the acts of terrorist violence that occurred in Israel last week, and we were deeply saddened by the subsequent loss of innocent lives in Israel, Gaza and the wider region |
| In our Trading business, revenues declined 1% compared to the prior year, with lower European revenue, partially offset by modest growth in U.S |
| Despite better cash equity revenue capture that offset largely flat U.S |
| It has impacted it |
| And so again, it's an increasing threat |
| As a result, the midpoint of the updated expense guidance range is $5 million lower than our prior guidance, which reflects an annual expense increase of approximately 4.5% for 2023 |
| So I think I would say what -- how would you characterize '22 and '23? It's been -- we're coming off of a very significant environment in, what I would call a free money environment, coming into an environment that with rising interest rates, which creates unpredictability of the future, an economy that seems to have a lot of resilience, but is still slowing down and a lot of unpredictability that investors are struggling with, because at the end of the day, they have to underwrite the future earnings of a company, and if they can't understand the overall economic environment it's hard to underwrite that risk |
| With respect to the market backdrop, during the quarter, we saw variety of cross currents, including increasing market volatility, fluctuating equities markets and rising long-term interest rates |
| While we continue to see elongated sales cycles for certain products in this business, we've not seen a material improvement or worsening of sales cycles from the second quarter of 2023 |
| Just on the cash equities business, I've noticed that the revenue capture has been rising quite substantially while the sort of market volumes have stagnated have fallen |
| And then you're starting to see the macro environment change again, the geopolitical environment become much more unstable |
| Non-GAAP operating income increased 4%, while the non-GAAP operating margin of 52% was down approximately 90 basis points from the prior year period |
| And that, of course, is making investors pause again on understanding how to take that risk |
| In the AML side, it's a matter of just a lot of regulatory pressure and frankly, the banks really having a true interest in just making sure they do not have that type of money laundering going through their systems |
| I mean, do you get the sense that the SMB clients are tightening budgets or expanding budgets for these types of solutions in Verafin? Adena Friedman I would say that every bank is facing more and more challenges of fraud and AML |
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