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18-570: Prior to the merger, the company had operations around the world, including in China, India, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Class B shares of its stock were listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic exchange . On 12 December 2023, it was announced that Novozymes and Danish bioscience company Chr. Hansen had obtained regulatory approval for a merger, and on the following day,

36-573: A "free form" financial association until in 1984 it was converted into a cooperative owned mostly by banks , traders , other companies and associations . On April 1, 1990, trading was moved to a new digital system: HETI (Helsinki Stock Exchange Automated Trading and Information System, and in Finnish a rough backronym for "immediately"), which replaced the electro-mechanical trading system originally introduced back in 1935. HETI enabled remote traders to conduct transactions on equal terms with those in

54-751: A 20% stake and 5 percent of votes in NASDAQ, as well as NASDAQ's then-28% stake in the London Stock Exchange . In a complex transaction, Borse Dubai acquired 97.2% of OMX's outstanding shares before selling them to NASDAQ. The newly merged company was renamed the NASDAQ OMX Group upon completion of the deal on 27 February 2008. The following exchanges, with official market names in parentheses, are operated by Nasdaq Nordic: The company's stock market activities are made up of three entities: Helsinki Stock Exchange Nasdaq Helsinki , formerly known as

72-703: A deal valuing the company at 250 million SEK . The transaction was completed by the end of the year. The company took a 10% stake in Oslo Børs Holding ASA, the owner of the Oslo Stock Exchange in October 2006. As of September 2016, Nasdaq is not a major shareholder in the Oslo Stock Exchange holding company, which following a merger is currently called Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA . Nasdaq has, however, publicly stated its interest in eventually acquiring

90-690: A virtual European stock exchange called Jiway. The project was not successful and was cancelled on 14 October 2002. On 3 September 2003, the Helsinki Stock Exchange (HEX) merged with OM and the joint company became OM HEX . On 31 August 2004, the company name was changed to OMX. OMX then acquired the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in January 2005 for €164 million. On 19 September 2006, Iceland Stock Exchange owner Eignarhaldsfelagid Verdbrefathing (EV) announced it would be acquired by OMX in

108-461: Is the common name for the subsidiaries of Nasdaq, Inc. that provide financial services and operate marketplaces for securities in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe . Historically, the operations were known by the company name OMX AB ( Aktiebolaget Optionsmäklarna /Helsinki Stock E x change), created in 2003 with the merger between OM AB and HEX plc . In 2015, the legal entity OMX AB

126-624: The European Commission . OM AB ( O ptions m äklarna ) was a futures exchange founded by Olof Stenhammar in the 1980s to introduce trading in standardized option contracts in Sweden . OM acquired the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1998 and unsuccessfully attempted acquisition of the London Stock Exchange in 2001. During the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, OM, together with investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter , launched

144-719: The Helsinki Stock Exchange ( Finnish : Helsingin Pörssi , Swedish : Helsingforsbörsen ), is a stock exchange located in Helsinki , Finland . Since 3 September 2003, it has been part of Nasdaq Nordic (previously called OMX ). After the OMX merger, it was referred to as OMX Helsinki (OMXH), then after NASDAQ 's acquisition of OMX in February 2008, NASDAQ OMX Helsinki , and currently Nasdaq Helsinki . The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction on October 7, 1912. From then it remained

162-618: The trading room . The cooperative changed to a limited liability company ( Helsingin Arvopaperipörssi ) in the fall of 1995 and merged with several clearing and stock deposit companies and associations at the beginning of 1997. During 1997 and 1998 the Stock Exchange bought both of the Finnish derivative exchanges and merged them with itself to become HEX . In November 1998 HEX merged with Arvopaperikeskus to form Helsinki Exchanges Group Plc, which then changed its name to HEX Plc in

180-438: The 1950s. In the late 1980s Novozymes presented the world's first fat-splitting enzyme for detergents manufactured with genetically engineered microorganisms , called Lipolase . The current Novozymes was founded in 2000 as a spinout from pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk . In the 2000s Novozymes expanded through the acquisition of several companies focusing on business outside the core enzyme business. Amongst them were

198-513: The Brazilian bio agricultural company Turfal and German pharmaceutical, chemical and life science company EMD/Merck Crop BioScience Inc. These acquisitions made Novozymes a leader in sustainable solutions for the agricultural biological industry. In January 2016, the company spun out its biopharmaceutical operations into Albumedix . In June 2020, the business announced it would acquire Ireland-based PrecisionBiotics for $ 90 million. In December of

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216-679: The Oslo Stock Exchange. In November 2007, OMX acquired the Armenian Stock Exchange and the Central Depository of Armenia . In December 2005, OMX started First North , an alternative exchange for smaller companies, in Denmark . The First North exchange expanded to Stockholm in June 2006, Iceland in January 2007 and Helsinki in April 2007. The Markets Technology division of Computershare

234-493: The list. OMX also launched a pan-regional benchmark index known as the OMX Nordic 40 on the same date; however, the individual exchanges also retained their own national benchmark indices. On 25 May 2007, NASDAQ agreed to buy OMX for US$ 3.7 billion. In August, however, Borse Dubai offered US$ 4 billion, prompting speculation of a bidding war . On 20 September 2007, Borse Dubai agreed to stop competing to buy OMX in return for

252-433: The name of the combined company was revealed as Novonesis . In 1925, the brothers Harald and Thorvald Pedersen founded Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium and Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium with the aim to produce insulin . In 1941 the company's predecessor launched its first enzyme, trypsin , extracted from the pancreas of animals and used to soften leather, and was the first to produce enzymes by fermentation using bacteria in

270-465: The same year Novozymes announced it would acquire Microbiome Labs in a $ 125 million deal. The Novozymes class A share capital is held by Novo Holdings A/S , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Novo Nordisk Foundation . In addition, Novo A/S holds 5,826,280 B shares, which overall gives Novo A/S 25.5% of the total share capital and 70.1% of the votes. Nasdaq Nordic Nasdaq Nordic

288-540: The spring of 2001. In 2001 and 2002 HEX acquired a majority share of the Tallinn Stock Exchange and the Riga Stock Exchange . On 3 September 2003, HEX Plc merged with OM AB, owner of the Stockholm Stock Exchange , to become OM HEX. A year later, the company was renamed to OMX. OMX Helsinki 25 (OMXH25) is the leading share index on Nasdaq Helsinki. It is a market value weighted index that consists of

306-504: Was acquired in 2006. The acquisition greatly expanded its product offerings and made its client list the largest of all trading system technology providers. On 2 October 2006, the group launched a virtual Nordic Stock Exchange after merging the individual lists of shares traded at its three wholly owned Nordic exchanges into a combined Nordic List. Companies listed on the Iceland Stock Exchange have also since been merged into

324-523: Was renamed Nasdaq AB , but it also operates under the name Nasdaq OMX AB . The operations have been part of Nasdaq, Inc. (formerly known as Nasdaq OMX Group ) since February 2008. On 23 August 2023, the company formed EuroCTP as a joint venture with 13 other bourses, in an effort to provide a consolidated tape for the European Union , as part of the Capital Markets Union proposed by

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