When markets swooned in April, 2025, NYSE Group President Lynn Martin was ready. Years of investment in cutting-edge technologies and processes had prepared the world's largest exchange to weather the volatility and surging trading volumes wrought by tariff concerns.
In a CNBC op-ed, she reassured investors that the "beating heart of the global financial system" had met the challenge, handling more than 1 trillion messages on two separate days with a median processing time of 30 microseconds.
"I felt it was my responsibility to remind people that the NYSE has been around 233 years. We've survived wars, pandemics and geopolitical uncertainty, so don't panic," she explained now. "We're quite proud that our financial markets showed their resilience and strength during that time."
Featured Sessions
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
3:00 pm
In this candid 1:1 interview, Lynn Martin sits down with Holly Sraeel to discuss a number of wide-ranging topics of crucial importance to the financial industry. Among them:
• Responsible innovation and market structure, including NYSE initiatives such as tokenization and extended hours trading
• Technology and AI, including NYSE’s Pillar system performing during market volatilit, and how the NYSE is implementing AI, including Project Glasswing
• Policy and global engagement, regulatory advocacy for the listed community, Martin’s recent participation in the House Financial Services Committee on how to sustain economic growth and capital formation, and her thoughts on the SEC eliminating the requirement for quarterly earnings reporting.
• The state of the IPO market
