The NASDAQ exchange is also in New York City, a couple of blocks from the New York Stock Exchange. In fact, a huge portion of all financial service activity in the United States---which is in fact a significant fraction of all financial service activity in the world---is concentrated in New York City.
Normally I wouldn't cite Wikipedia, but they actually have an entire category "Financial services companies based in New York City." That's how many there are.
Financial services often seem to clump together in this way, for reasons that are not fully understood. Financial centers or "hubs" form in particular cities, such as New York City, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Zurich. Actually, of the top 10 financial center cities worldwide, 3 are in the United States---New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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