Insider

Roll up, roll up! Exchanges--do you have unwanted trading floors? Open outcry no longer required? What to do with all that pit space? We have the solution. Turn it into a trading-themed entertainment centre and watch the public roll in! Insider spots an untapped market waiting for laid-off technology entrepreneurs. The enterprising Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) recently opened a new visitor center on the trading floors it closed in 1999, to educate students and the public about exchanges and capital markets, including trading simulations and interactive games. But TASE also expects to make extra income from hiring the center out for corporate presentations, TV broadcasts and interviews. But budding exchange-makeover artists should be aware of Compugraphic Solutions of Givatayim in Israel, designers of the TASE centre. Hurry while stock (exchanges) last!