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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Financial Products News #2025 - 50
Nasdaq Announces Launch of Two New Indexes Effective Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Markets Impacted:

  • All Markets

Data Feeds Impacted:

  • Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS)
  • Nasdaq Global Index Watch (GIW)
  • Nasdaq Global Index FlexFile Delivery (GIFFD)

Contact Information:

What you need to know:

Effective Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, Nasdaq will begin disseminating the following new indexes on the Nasdaq Global Index Data ServiceSM (GIDS).

What are the new indexes?

The Nasdaq -100 Currency Hedged GBP Notional Net Total Return Index is designed to represent the return for a global investment strategy that involves hedging currency risk, but not the underlying constituent risk. The currency hedged strategy aims to eliminate the effect of currency fluctuations in the index. By factoring the impact of selling foreign currency forwards at the one month forward rate, the Hedged Indexes mitigate the currency exposures in the index compared to the ‘home’ currency.

The Nasdaq-100 Currency Hedged CAD Notional Net Total Return 2 Index is designed to represent the return for a global investment strategy that involves hedging currency risk, but not the underlying constituent risk. The currency hedged strategy aims to eliminate the effect of currency fluctuations in the index. By factoring the impact of selling foreign currency forwards at the one month forward rate, the Hedged Indexes mitigate the currency exposures in the index compared to the ‘home’ currency.

How are the Indexes disseminated?

On Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, data recipients will receive real-time index information from the proprietary GIDS data feed with the following attributes:

Instrument ID Instrument Name Currency Frequency FP Type Brand Session ID
XNDXNNRGBPMH Nasdaq -100 Currency Hedged GBP Notional Net Total Return Index GBP 1s I NQ AME
XNDXNNR15CADMH Nasdaq-100 Currency Hedged CAD Notional Net Total Return 2 Index CAD 1s I NQ AME

In addition to the real-time tick messages, Nasdaq will support the following directory messages on GIDS:

  • Equities Summary (Message Type F): Disseminated at the end of the U.S. and European trading session to relay the summary of the current trading day's activity for an equity index.
  • Index Directory (Message Type R): Disseminated at the start of each day to relay basic index information.

Will the components and weightings data be made available?

Yes. For access and more information on the Index on the Nasdaq Global Index Watch (GIW) and Nasdaq Global Index FlexFile Delivery (GIFFD), please contact Nasdaq Index Data Sales.

Where can I find additional information?

For questions about Nasdaq index products, please contact Index Services or visit GIW.

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