On
“NASDAQ & OTC Market in Bangladesh”
Course title: Financial Institutions and Markets
Course Code: FIN-6403
Submitted to:
Ms. Afia Akter
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Administration
Northern University Bangladesh
Submitted by:
Md. Milon Hosen
ID: MBA-120103274 Section: A Date of submission: February 25, 2013
National Association of Securities
Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ)
NASDAQ is the Largest OTC Market in New York, in this Market D-listed & Non Listed Company from Organized Market is traded their securities by Electronically without Physical Location.
NASDAQ began forty years ago at the National Association of Securities Dealers, or NASD. The NASD wanted to create a way for investors to buy and sell stocks on a computerized, transparent, and fast system. This would eliminate the burden and inefficiency of in-person stock transactions, which had been the prevalent model for nearly a century. The NASD believed that investors could make more money by closing the price gaps between buyers and sellers, and technology had evolved enough at that point to make it happen.
On February 8, 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) went live with median quotes for 2,500 over-the-counter securities. As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of electronic trading, we are proud that the revolutionary, disruptive model that the NASD developed in 1971 is now the standard for markets worldwide. In our early years, we gave growth companies the opportunity to raise capital that wasn’t previously available to them. Those companies (Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, and Dell, to name a few) used the capital raised on The NASDAQ Stock Market to make the cutting edge products that are now integral to our daily lives. These companies have also created millions of jobs around the world along the way.
Today, the NASDAQ OMX Group owns and operates 24 markets, 3 clearing houses, and 5 central