METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REBROKERING ORDERS IN A TRADING SYSTEM

• US 20080255982A1
• Filed: 05/01/2007
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wall Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wall Corporation
• Inventors: Fefferman, Charles, Hughes, Webster
• Application Number:
  US11/742,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20080255982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for supporting the trading of bonds in a computerized system using broker dealers as intermediaries. Broker dealers receive orders relating to particular transactions and have the option to accept the order by submitting a matching counter order, or to rebroker the order with the same or modified terms to a number of other investors or additional broker dealers. The additional broker dealers have similar options, thus providing a system wherein orders can be quickly proliferated to a large number of parties. This order proliferation can be fully or partially automated through the use of predefined rules stored in a database which dictate for each broker dealer whether, to whom and under what terms to rebroker orders. When an order is received, the system processes all such rules to output a set of orders which are then communicated to the corresponding parties.

Claims

1. In a computerized system, a method for facilitating execution of a financial transaction between a first party and a second party through a plurality of intermediaries, the method comprising, for each intermediary involved in the financial transaction:

presenting to the intermediary an order received by the intermediary relating to the financial transaction;

storing information for identifying a list of other parties in a memory accessible to the intermediary;

displaying the list to the intermediary;

allowing the intermediary to select one or more parties from the list to which the intermediary can communicate an order relating to the financial transaction; and

communicating the order from the intermediary to the one or more selected parties.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising allowing the intermediary to generate the list of other parties from among a group of parties using the system.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising storing status data representing whether each party in the list is an intermediary party which is allowed to communicate an order relating to the financial transaction to other parties or a counterparty which is not allowed to communicate an order relating to the financial transaction to other parties, and displaying the status data with the list to the intermediary.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the order presented to the intermediary identifies parties with which the intermediary party may communicate orders, and comprising selecting the identified parties from the information for identifying the list and displaying the identified parties as the list to the intermediary.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the order presented to the intermediary contains a first set of terms, the method comprising allowing the intermediary to generate a second set of terms for the order to be communicated to each party.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of allowing the intermediary to generate a second set of terms comprises allowing the intermediary to generate a different set of terms for each party to whom an order is communicated.

7. In a computerized system for trading of fixed income securities, a method for facilitating execution of a financial transaction based upon an order communicated by a first investor, the method comprising:

presenting an order to a broker dealer arising from the order communicated by the first investor;

allowing the broker dealer to decide, among other possible choices, whether to match the presented order or communicate an order relating to the financial transaction to a plurality of other parties using the system;

if the broker dealer decides to match the presented order, executing the financial transaction by at least executing the presented order and the order communicated by the first investor; and

if the broker dealer decides to communicate the order, communicating the order to the one or more other parties.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising allowing the broker dealer to further decide to submit a counteroffer to the order and communicating the counteroffer.

9. The method of claim 7, comprising allowing the first investor to select whether the order is a live, executable order or a subject order.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the order communicated by the first investor is a live, executable order, and wherein the step of communicating the order from the broker dealer comprises communicating a live, executable order.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of executing the financial transaction comprises automatically executing the financial transaction upon a match between the order communicated by the first investor and a matching live, executable order.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the order communicated by the first investor is an order subject to satisfaction of a condition, and wherein the step of executing the financial transaction comprises executing the financial transaction only if the condition is satisfied.

13. At least one storage medium containing one or more computer programs operable to cause a computerized system to facilitate execution of a financial transaction between a first party and a second party through a plurality of intermediaries, the computerized system being operable under control of the program to carry out actions comprising, for each intermediary involved in the financial transaction:

presenting to the intermediary an order received by the intermediary relating to the financial transaction;

storing information for identifying a list of other parties in a memory accessible to the intermediary;

displaying the list to the intermediary;

allowing the intermediary to select one or more parties from the list to which the intermediary can communicate an order relating to the financial transaction; and

communicating the order from the intermediary to the one or more selected parties.