Nasdaq to Enhance Global Market Surveillance Offering with Generative AI
On May 15, 2024, Nasdaq (NDAQ) announced a new AI-powered feature for its Market Surveillance technology, aimed at enhancing market abuse investigations. This generative AI feature, developed using Amazon Bedrock, will improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of these investigations, reducing investigation time by 33%. The technology consolidates and analyzes data, aiding analysts in detecting and assessing suspicious activities more effectively. This enhancement is part of Nasdaq's broader AI strategy, which spans multiple business units, including North American Markets Services and Financial Crime Management Technology. The initiative underscores Nasdaq's commitment to maintaining market integrity and leveraging advanced technologies to support global financial systems.
- Generative AI reduces investigation time by 33%.
- Improved detection and assessment of market abuse.
- Enhanced data consolidation and analysis capabilities.
- Alignment with Nasdaq's broader AI strategy.
- Leverages Amazon Bedrock for secure AI applications.
- AI tools introduced across multiple business units.
- Supports global financial system stability and security.
- Maintains market integrity and trustworthiness.
- High resource intensity for initial review of alerts.
- Dependence on AWS for AI functionality.
Insights
The incorporation of generative AI into Nasdaq’s market surveillance technology signifies a noteworthy advancement. Integrating AI, specifically leveraging Amazon Bedrock, enhances analysts' capabilities by reducing investigation time by
Technologically, this is a strategic integration that promises to elevate the quality and speed of market surveillance, enhancing overall market integrity. The real-world application during high-volume trading periods could be transformative, setting a new industry standard. However, continuous updates and algorithm improvements will be essential to maintain efficacy as market conditions evolve.
From a financial perspective, this development could be quite influential for Nasdaq. Enhanced market surveillance capabilities potentially reduce the risk of fraudulent activities, which can have a significant impact on market stability. Investors may view this positively as it indicates Nasdaq’s proactive approach to maintaining market integrity. Improved trust in market systems can lead to higher trading volumes and investor confidence, benefiting Nasdaq’s financial performance.
Moreover, the reduction in investigation time by
The integration of generative AI in market surveillance raises several legal and regulatory implications. It enhances Nasdaq's ability to comply with international regulatory requirements by ensuring more effective monitoring of market activity and potential abuse. This proactive stance is important in an environment where regulatory scrutiny is intensifying globally. Efficient detection and investigation of market manipulation not only uphold legal standards but also reinforce investor trust.
Nevertheless, the deployment of AI must be accompanied by rigorous oversight to ensure compliance with data protection laws and avoid potential biases in AI algorithms. Ensuring transparency in AI decision-making processes will be vital to maintain regulatory approval and market trust. The legal frameworks around AI in financial markets are still evolving and Nasdaq must navigate these carefully to avoid pitfalls.
Nasdaq to integrate Gen AI feature into its leading market surveillance technology for regulators and
marketplaces globally
AI functionality will improve overall quality and efficiency of market abuse investigations for our clients,
enhancing integrity of the financial system
NEW YORK, May 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the new AI powered feature within its Market Surveillance technology solution that will significantly enhance the quality, speed, and efficiency of market abuse investigations performed by our clients. The solution leverages generative AI to streamline the triage and examination process involved in investigating suspected market manipulation and insider dealing, empowering regulator and marketplace clients to more effectively monitor and detect potential market abuse.
During proof-of-concept testing, surveillance analysts estimated a
“Maintaining trust in capital markets is critical to preserving long-term growth and prosperity,” said Ed Probst, Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory Technology at Nasdaq. “Market abuse is a substantial global challenge and one that demands increasingly sophisticated solutions to address it. As a major regulatory technology provider to the world’s financial system, with a deep culture of innovation, Nasdaq is uniquely placed to leverage the power of technology to further enhance the tools and capabilities necessary to uphold the integrity of marketplaces globally.”
New AI Surveillance Capabilities
In an effort to ensure market integrity and trustworthiness, international regulators require financial institutions to demonstrate the ongoing effectiveness of their surveillance systems and controls. Firms are expected to have comprehensive coverage across their entire portfolio and operations, spanning a broad range of asset classes and jurisdictions, with scalable systems capable of managing increased levels of risk during periods of high volume and volatility.
Today, when analysts receive automated alerts of suspicious activity, they must conduct an initial review and form an assessment of whether the activity warrants further investigation. That typically involves manually collating all necessary evidence, including relevant trading activity and corporate filings alongside a vast array of data from external sources, before deciding whether to continue the review. The process is highly resource intensive, and even more so if the alert warrants further investigation.
Leveraging Amazon Bedrock, an AWS service for building secure generative AI applications, Nasdaq’s enhanced functionality will empower analysts with generative AI capabilities to distill, analyze, and interpret relevant information more quickly, enhancing their ability to form detailed initial assessments of alerts. For example, the technology can produce a consolidated table of the company’s regulatory filings, summaries and links to company, sector, and peer company news, news sentiment analysis, and other mitigating or aggravating factors that may impact any given security.
Tony Sio, Head of Regulatory Strategy and Innovation at Nasdaq, said: “By drawing on the latest innovation in cloud technology and artificial intelligence, we can better respond to new threats and offer the global financial system advanced tools to more effectively tackle market abuse. This is a continuous cycle of investment and improvement in our capability, leveraging our unique position as both a world class market operator and best in class surveillance technology provider around the world.”
Scott Mullins, General Manager of Worldwide Financial Services at AWS, said: “Nasdaq is continuously innovating on behalf of the global capital markets by combining its industry-leading expertise with cloud and AI technology. We are honored to work with Nasdaq as it harnesses the power of generative AI to advance the stability and security of the global financial system.”
Nasdaq’s Expansion of AI Across Multiple Business Units
As a global technology provider, Nasdaq has continuously advanced AI capabilities to support capital markets, enhancing the integrity, fairness, liquidity, and efficiency of the financial ecosystem. This new generative AI functionality has been introduced as part of Nasdaq's broader research and development effort, focused on transparent, reliable, and accountable AI implementation across the financial services industry.
A major aspect of Nasdaq’s AI strategy has been to accelerate its market modernization effort by improving the quality of its data and surrounding systems while embracing cloud-enabled infrastructure. Nasdaq’s long-term approach to technology and investments has enabled the company to unlock the power of AI by scaling its capabilities, tools, and systems with proper governance, security, and oversight. To date, Nasdaq’s AI initiatives span many of its business units, including North American Markets Services, Financial Crime Management Technology, and Corporate Solutions.
Within North American Market Services, Nasdaq has launched Dynamic MELO, the first SEC approved AI order type, and Strike Price Optimization, a purpose-built program designed to align Nasdaq’s six options exchanges strike lists to market demand. For several years, the Nasdaq Investor Relations Intelligence team has also been employing different types of AI to better serve clients, with a key focus on empowering analysts to uncover new proprietary data and insights more efficiently. In addition, IR Intelligence recently launched Nasdaq Sustainable Lens™, an AI-powered ESG intelligence solution that helps clients make better decisions faster, boost productivity and enhance credibility on key topics such as regulatory reporting readiness and competitive intelligence. In addition, Verafin, which provides Nasdaq’s Financial Crime Management solutions, announced the availability of its Entity Research Copilot, the first of its integrated Copilot capabilities that uses generative AI to automate compliance tasks and daily workflows enabling financial institutions to reduce operational costs and increase the efficiency of anti-financial crime programs.
About Nasdaq
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, banks, brokers, and exchange operators as they navigate and interact with the global capital markets and the broader financial system. We aspire to deliver world-leading platforms that improve the liquidity, transparency, and integrity of the global economy. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, exchange capabilities, and client-centric services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions, and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on X @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com.
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