A regional stock exchange is a term used in the United States to describe stock exchanges that operates outside of the country's main financial center in New York City. A regional stock exchange operates in the trading of listed and over-the-counter (OTC) equities under the SEC's Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) rule.
Regional exchanges currently registered with the SEC include:
Boston Stock Exchange (BSE or BSX), acquired by NASDAQ in 2007
CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX)
Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX)
National Stock Exchange (NSX)
Pacific Stock Exchange (PSE), acquired by NYSE in 2006
Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), the nation's first stock exchange, acquired by NASDAQ in 2007
The Boston and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges were both acquired by NASDAQ in 2007, and the Pacific Exchange acquired in 2006 by the New York Stock Exchange, thus ending their identities as separate stock exchanges.
The Cincinnati Stock Exchange moved to Chicago and changed its name to the National Stock Exchange. It moved again to its current location in Jersey City, New Jersey.
There used to be many more such exchanges in the United States. Among those that have become defunct or have merged into the survivors listed above are
Baltimore, which merged with Philadelphia in 1949 (Baltimore Stock Exchange)
Buffalo, New York, which closed in 1936 (Buffalo Stock Exchange)
Cleveland, which merged with Chicago in 1949 (Cleveland Stock Exchange)
Colorado Springs, which closed in 1966 (Colorado Springs Stock Exchange)
Denver, which closed in 1936 (Denver Stock Exchange)
Detroit, which closed in 1976 (Detroit Stock Exchange)
Hartford, which closed in 1934 (Hartford Stock Exchange)
Honolulu, which closed in 1977 (Honolulu Stock Exchange)
Los Angeles and San Francisco, which merged to form the Pacific Exchange in 1957
Louisville, Kentucky, which closed in 1935 (Louisville Stock Exchange)
Milwaukee, which closed in 1938 (Milwaukee Stock Exchange)
Minneapolis-St. Paul, which merged with Chicago in 1949 (Minneapolis Stock Exchange)
New Orleans, which merged with Chicago in 1959 (New Orleans Stock Exchange)
Pittsburgh, which merged with Philadelphia in 1969 (Pittsburgh Stock Exchange)
Richmond, Virginia, which closed in 1972 (Richmond Stock Exchange)
St. Louis, which merged with Chicago in 1949 (St. Louis Stock Exchange)
Salt Lake City, which closed in 1986 (Salt Lake City Stock Exchange)
Seattle, which closed in 1942 (Seattle Stock Exchange)
Spokane, Washington, which closed in 1991 (Spokane Stock Exchange)
Washington, D.C., which merged with Philadelphia in 1953 (Washington Stock Exchange)
Wheeling, West Virginia, which closed in 1965 (Wheeling Stock Exchange)
