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                                                                    Exhibit 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

            Each of the undersigned, as a member of the Board of Directors (the
"Board"), or as an officer, or as a member of a committee of the Board, or in
two or more of such capacities, of Instinet Group Incorporated, a Delaware
corporation ("Instinet"), hereby constitutes and appoints JOHN F. FAY and PAUL
A. MEROLLA, and each of them singly, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact
and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to act, for him
or her and in his or her name, place and stead and on his or her behalf, in any
and all capacities, to sign Instinet's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2002, and any and all amendments to such Form 10-K and
other documents relating thereto, and to file on behalf of Instinet such Annual
Report on Form 10-K and any such amendments, with all exhibits thereto, and any
and all other information and documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), hereby granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each one of them, full power and authority to
do and perform any and all acts and things requisite to enable Instinet to
comply with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any rules and regulations
and requirements of the SEC in respect thereof in connection with the filing of
Instinet's Annual Report on Form 10-K as fully to all intents and purposes as he
or she might or could do in person as a director of Instinet, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any one of them,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

       SIGNATURE                                     TITLE

/s/ Edward J. Nicoll                  Chief Executive Officer and Director
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Name: Edward J. Nicoll


/s/ Mark Nienstedt                    Officer and Director
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Name: Mark Nienstedt

/s/ John F. Fay                       Chief Financial Officer
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Name: John F. Fay

/s/ Ian Strachan                      Director and Chairman of the Board of
-----------------------------         Directors
Name: Ian Strachan

/s/ Thomas H. Glocer                  Senior Director
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Name: Thomas H. Glocer

/s/ John C. Bogle                     Director
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Name: John C. Bogle

/s/ David Grigson                     Director
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Name: David Grigson


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/s/ Glenn Hutchins                    Director
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Name: Glenn Hutchins

/s/ Peter J. Job                      Director
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Name: Peter J. Job

/s/ John Kasich                       Director
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Name: John Kasich

/s/ Kay Koplovitz                     Director
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Name: Kay Koplovitz

/s/ C. Kevin Landry                   Director
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Name: C. Kevin Landry

/s/ Stephen Pagliuca                  Director
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Name: Stephen Pagliuca

/s/ Devin Wenig                       Director
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Name: Devin Wenig

Dated: March 13, 2003


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