Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch have signed up as joint bookrunners for a $100m (€75.3m) offering of Nasdaq common stock in a deal that will see shares in the exchange listed on its own national market for the first time.

Shares in the company have traded on the less liquid over-the-counter bulletin board since 2002. The bulletin board is operated by Nasdaq but is not part of the Nasdaq stock market.