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Evolution of the Stock Exchange

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Paul Arlman, Secretary General of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges, warned in the following excerpted speech that he would not be able to answer this question put to him: "What is an Exchange?"

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The New York Stock Exchange was originally formed to furnish exchange rooms for the convenient transaction of their business by its members.

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The oldest Stock Exchange in the world, the Amsterdam Exchange, started in a Post Office in 1598 where incoming and outgoing letters from ships were registered.

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But is was only in 1611, nine years after they started trading the first tradable share of the Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie (VOC) that they really got their own Exchange in the sense of a building.

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"Confusion de Confusiones", by Joseph de la Vega, published in 1688, shows us quite precisely what an Exchange is: a den of thieves unless moderated by regulation.

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Through most of its history an Exchange was a meeting place in a physical sense, and only in the last century did we introduce electricity and telephones, which on many floors of the Exchanges were restricted or forbidden.

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In order to define what a Stock Exchange is today, you have to understand the unstoppable progress, or juggernaut, of technology.

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When the computer did away with the physical limitation of the Exchange within one single city or region, the technology lost its uniqueness, and it gave rise to competition.

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Another factor for change has been international equity investors, who have shown a ferocious appetite for both domestic and foreign equity investment, even notwithstanding the dot com bubble.

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The fourth factor is the information availability explosion that gave all investors nearly unlimited access to nearly free data.

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