Credit management for electronic brokerage system
First Claim
1. A computerized trading system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
- a plurality of trading floors;
a centralized computer system which determines which pairs of trading floors are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another, the centralized computer system also sending dealable price quotes to the trading floors, each trading floor being sent dealable price quotes which have been prescreened for bilateral credit and indicating at least a price at which one or more credit bearing counter-parties of the trading floor receiving the dealable price quote are willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments to such trading floor;
a first trading floor having a first maker screen and a first taker screen associated therewith;
(a) the first maker screen permitting a first trader associated with the first trading floor to send maker price quotes to the centralized computer system, the maker price quotes indicating a price at which the first trader is willing to buy and/or sell one or more financial instruments; and
(b) the first taker screen permitting the first trader to view and accept dealable price quotes the first trading floor has received from the centralized computer system.
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Abstract
An anonymous trading system identifies the best bids and offers from those counterparties with which each party is currently eligible to deal, while maintaining the anonymity of the potential counterparty and the confidentiality of any specific credit limitations imposed by the anonymous potential counterparty. To that end, each bid or offer for a particular type of financial instrument is prescreened by the system for compatibility with limited credit information (for example, a one bit flag indicating whether a predetermined limit has already been exceeded) and an anonymous “Dealable” price is calculated for each of the traders dealing with that particular financial instrument.
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62 Claims
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1. A computerized trading system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
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a plurality of trading floors; a centralized computer system which determines which pairs of trading floors are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another, the centralized computer system also sending dealable price quotes to the trading floors, each trading floor being sent dealable price quotes which have been prescreened for bilateral credit and indicating at least a price at which one or more credit bearing counter-parties of the trading floor receiving the dealable price quote are willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments to such trading floor; a first trading floor having a first maker screen and a first taker screen associated therewith; (a) the first maker screen permitting a first trader associated with the first trading floor to send maker price quotes to the centralized computer system, the maker price quotes indicating a price at which the first trader is willing to buy and/or sell one or more financial instruments; and (b) the first taker screen permitting the first trader to view and accept dealable price quotes the first trading floor has received from the centralized computer system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A computerized trading system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
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a plurality of trading floors, each trading floor sending unilateral credit information to a centralized computer system indicating whether that trading floor is extending unilateral credit to other trading floors; at least some of the trading floors having one or more respective maker screens and one or more respective taker screens associated therewith; (a) each maker screen permitting a respective trader to send maker price quotes to the centralized computer system, each maker price quote indicating at least a price at which the trader is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments; and (b) each taker screen permitting a respective trader to view and accept dealable price quotes received from the centralized computer system; and the centralized computer system determining which pairs of trading floors are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another as a function of the unilateral credit information, the centralized computer system also sending the dealable price quotes, which have been prescreened for bilateral credit, to each trading floor indicating the best available price that originates from one or more credit bearing counter-parties of that trading floor.
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44. A method of trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the method comprising:
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sending maker price quotes from traders at the trading floors to a centralized computer system, each maker price quote indicating at least a price at which the maker of that quote is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments; determining, at the centralized computer system, which pairs of trading floors are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another and sending dealable price quotes from the centralized computer system to the trading floors as a function thereof, each trading floor being sent dealable price quotes indicating at least a price at which one or more credit bearing counter-parties of that trading floor are willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments; and a first trading floor accepting a dealable price quote received by it from the centralized computer system.
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45. A computerized trading system for trading of financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
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a plurality of trading floors; a centralized computer system which determines which pairs of trading floors have bilateral credit with each other and identifies such pairs of trading floors as credit bearing counter-parties, the centralized computer system also sending dealable price quotes, which have been prescreened for bilateral credit, to the trading floors; each of the trading floors being associated with at least one respective; (a) maker screen at which a trader can send maker price quotes to the centralized computer system, each maker price quote indicating at least a price at which the trader is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments; and (b) taker screen at which a trader can view and accept dealable prices indicated by the dealable price quotes received from the centralized computer system.
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46. A computerized trading system for trading of financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
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a centralized computer system; a plurality of trading floors, at least some of the trading floors including at least one respective; (a) maker screen at which a trader can send maker price quotes to the centralized computer system, each maker price quote indicating a price at which the trader is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments; and (b) taker screen at which a trader can view and accept dealable prices indicated by dealable price quotes received from the centralized computer system, the dealable prices having been prescreened for bilateral credit; the centralized computer system determining which pairs of trading floors have bilateral credit with one another and sending the dealable price quotes to the trading floors as a function thereof.
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47. A computerized trading system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors, the system comprising:
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a plurality of trading floors; a first of the trading floors having at least at least a first maker screen associated therewith, the first maker screen permitting a trader to send quotes to the other trading floors via a centralized computer system; the centralized computer system informing the first trading floor when a quote sent by one of its makers is the best quote capable of being accepted by another trader on the computerized trading system; and the taker screen informing the maker of the quote that his or her quote is capable of being accepted.
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48. A method for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors connected together by a computerized trading system, the method comprising:
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determining which pairs of trading floors are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another without informing any trading floor which of the other trading floors are currently extending credit to it; sending maker price quotes to the computerized trading system from individual trading floors, each maker price quote indicating at least a price at which a maker is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments to other anonymous traders having bilateral credit with the trading floor with which the maker is associated; and displaying at each trading floor the best dealable price that originates from one or more credit bearing counter-parties of that trading floor, which best dealable price has been prescreened for credit, and thereafter permitting a trader to accept such best dealable price. - View Dependent Claims (49)
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50. A method for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors that are in electronic communication with a computerized trading system, the method comprising:
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sending price quotes to the computerized trading system from individual trading floors, each price quote indicating a quote to buy and/or sell financial instrument to other traders; automatically prescreening the price quotes to determine whether credit preferences are met for both the maker of the particular price quote and a prospective recipient of the particular price quote; displaying at least first and second prescreened price quotes to first trader in a manner which indicates that the credit preferences of both the maker of the first price quote and the first trader were met when the first price quote was prescreened and that the credit preferences of the maker of the second price quote and/or the first trader were not met when the second price quote was prescreened; and permitting the first trader to accept the first price quote and preventing him from accepting the second price quote.
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51. A method for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors that are in electronic communication with a computerized trading system, the method comprising:
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sending price quotes to the computerized trading system from individual trading floors, each price quote indicating a quote to buy and/or offer to sell financial instruments to other traders; automatically prescreening respective price quotes to determine whether credit preferences are met for both the maker of the respective price quote and a prospective recipient of the respective price quote located on another trading floor; and displaying a plurality of the prescreened price quotes to the prospective recipient in a manner which indicates whether or not the credit preferences of both the maker of the respective price quote and the prospective recipient were met when the prescreen for that price quote was conducted.
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52. A computerized system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors that are in electronic communication with each other, the system comprising a plurality of computers, a plurality of input devices and a plurality of display devices which cooperate to:
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permit traders to enter price quotes into the computerized trading system from individual trading floors, each price quote indicating a price at which the maker of that price quote is willing to buy and/or sell financial instruments to other traders; automatically prescreen the respective price quotes to determine whether credit preferences are met for both the maker of the respective price quote and a prospective recipient of the respective price quote located at another trading floor; display a plurality of the prescreened price quotes to the prospective recipient in a manner which indicates whether or not the credit preferences of both the maker of the particular price quote and the prospective recipient were met when the prescreen was conducted; and permit the prospective recipient to accept the particular price quote when it is displayed in a manner indicating that credit preferences of both the maker of the respective price quote and the respective recipient were met at the time the prescreen of the respective price quote was carried out.
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53. A computerized system for trading financial instruments between traders at a plurality of trading floors that are in electronic communication with each other, the system comprising a plurality of computers, a plurality of input devices and a plurality of display devices which cooperate to:
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permit traders to enter price quotes into the computerized trading system from individual trading floors, each maker price quote indicating a quote to buy and/or sell financial instruments to other traders; automatically prescreen the price quotes to determine whether credit preferences are met for both the maker of the particular price quote and a prospective recipient of that price quote located at another trading floor; and display a plurality of the prescreened price quotes to the prospective recipient in a manner which indicates whether or not the credit preferences of both the maker of the particular price quote and the prospective recipient were met when the prescreen was conducted.
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54. A method of prescreening orders in an electronic trading system, the method comprising:
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sending a plurality of quotes to the electronic trading system; the electronic trading system automatically determining which of the quotes a trader can accept and which of the quotes the trader cannot accept as a function of predetermined criteria including the amount of credit that has been extended to the trader whereby the quotes have been prescreened for credit; and sending information to the trader concerning a plurality of the quotes based upon the determination, the information including an indication as to at least one quote the trader can accept and at least one quote the trader cannot accept. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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