President
New York Stock Exchange Group
When markets swooned in April, 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."