United States of America
Nasdaq runs stock, options and other exchanges and sells listing, data, index and financial technology products, with 9,525 full and part-time employees at December 31, 2025. Its trading and surveillance software served more than 135 marketplaces and regulators across more than 55 countries in fiscal 2025, and 19 of those marketplaces are exchanges Nasdaq owns and runs itself.
The fiscal 2025 Form 10-K splits the business into three segments. Capital Access Platforms groups Data & Listing Services, Index, and Workflow & Insights. Financial Technology holds Financial Crime Management Technology, Regulatory Technology and Capital Markets Technology. Market Services covers equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities.
In fiscal 2025 its exchanges operated in the US, in Canada and in seven Nordic and Baltic capitals, from Stockholm and Copenhagen to Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Options orders that need a human touch go through a trading floor in Philadelphia. The US head office is at 151 W. 42nd Street in New York, and the European one is in Stockholm. All of its offices are leased.
Nasdaq, Inc. submitted 19 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) in calendar 2025, and no single worksite reached 25. New York, the headquarters city, accounts for 14 of the 2025 filings. Atlanta, which also hosts about a dozen openings on the careers site, has 2.
The 2025 filings cover 16 different titles. Three appear twice: Analyst- IT Audit, Data Engineer Specialist and Senior Product Development Specialist. The others range from Senior Marketing Associate to a Sr. Director in financial risk management.
The fiscal 2025 annual report names Stockholm, Vilnius and St. John's in Canada, alongside the US east coast, as places where operations are concentrated. On October 13, 2026 the careers site listed about 175 openings. India had 34 of them, Canada 18 and Lithuania 17, against just over 50 in the US. Mumbai and Bangalore had about 15 each.
Headcount grew by 363 during 2025, from 9,162 full and part-time employees at December 31, 2024. Voluntary attrition was about 5.6% in 2025, nearly one percentage point below 2024. Women made up about 36% of the global workforce in 2025. LCA filings climbed from 7 in calendar 2023 to 9 in 2024 and 19 in 2025.
Software Engineer was the biggest job family among openings on October 13, 2026, with 38 postings. Product Management and DevOps followed at 9 apiece. The fiscal 2025 annual report says most employees split the week between office and home. Many current postings, from Philadelphia to Vilnius, ask for at least 3 days a week on site, subject to change.