Under Friedman’s leadership, Nasdaq has accelerated its evolution from stock exchange to Fortune 500 tech, data, and analytics force, powering 130 global markets, Fortune reports. A reporter with the magazine met the CEO at Nasdaq’s Times Square HQ to talk about the wild markets of the past year—from virtual IPOs to meme stocks to the SPAC revolution—and get her take on which trends are here to stay. Read more.
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