Island Exchange

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Island Exchange is a kind of stock exchange. The Island Exchange is an electronic order-matching system that gives brokerage firms the power to electronically display and match stock orders for retail and institutional investors. Island is a fair and impartial stock trading forum where buyers and sellers meet directly. Island's efficient and reliable system reduces costs to both brokerage firms and investors, each day transacting more than $5 billion in dollar volume in 1999.

The alternative trading pioneer, Island was located online at http://www.isld.com and is headquartered in New York City.

At present, Island is a part of NASDAQ.

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