Method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary market debt securities
First Claim
1. A method for providing computer-implemented trading for debt securities, comprising:
- providing respective computer-generated interfaces for a plurality of dealers and a plurality of investors;
wherein a network enables messages to be exchanged between the dealer interfaces and the investor interfaces;
enabling the dealers to communicate an inventory of debt security issues to the investors via the investor interfaces;
enabling at least a particular investor to submit an inquiry, via the respective investor interface, for trading a particular one of the debt security issues to multiple ones of the dealers;
enabling the dealers to provide respective offers and/or bids, via their respective dealer interfaces, in response to the inquiry submitted thereto;
temporarily storing the offers and/or bids provided by the dealers;
releasing the offers and/or bids to the particular investor concurrently for consideration thereby; and
displaying to the plurality of investors the inventory of debt security issues on a standardized and sortable manner that are being offered and bid on by the plurality of dealers in a secondary resale market including issue identifier, coupon rate, details of each of the plurality of dealer bids and offers, the inside market, and the freshness of the indicated price, providing the plurality of investors information to determine in real-time which of the multiple dealers provides the best terms for a particular issue of interest.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system for trading of debt securities (bonds), where multiple dealers participate and compete on a single platform (100). Dealers and investors have respective interfaces (250, 230) for communicating. In one aspect, dealers announce new debt security issues (400), the investors communicate an indication of interest (IOI) (500) in purchasing the new debt security issues, and the issues are allocated to the investors. In another aspect, issues from multiple dealers are made available to investors on a secondary trading market in a searchable format (1000). In response to price inquiries sent by the investors (1200), the dealers provide offers (1300) which are briefly held and released to the investor concurrently to allow the investor to consider all offers together. In another aspect, the dealers post bid and offer terms for actively traded issues (1700) that are updated in real-time to avoid the need for the inquiry procedure.
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72 Claims
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1. A method for providing computer-implemented trading for debt securities, comprising:
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providing respective computer-generated interfaces for a plurality of dealers and a plurality of investors; wherein a network enables messages to be exchanged between the dealer interfaces and the investor interfaces; enabling the dealers to communicate an inventory of debt security issues to the investors via the investor interfaces; enabling at least a particular investor to submit an inquiry, via the respective investor interface, for trading a particular one of the debt security issues to multiple ones of the dealers; enabling the dealers to provide respective offers and/or bids, via their respective dealer interfaces, in response to the inquiry submitted thereto; temporarily storing the offers and/or bids provided by the dealers; releasing the offers and/or bids to the particular investor concurrently for consideration thereby; and displaying to the plurality of investors the inventory of debt security issues on a standardized and sortable manner that are being offered and bid on by the plurality of dealers in a secondary resale market including issue identifier, coupon rate, details of each of the plurality of dealer bids and offers, the inside market, and the freshness of the indicated price, providing the plurality of investors information to determine in real-time which of the multiple dealers provides the best terms for a particular issue of interest. - 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)
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39. A method for providing computer-implemented trading for debt securities, comprising:
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providing respective computer-generated interfaces for a plurality of dealers and a plurality of investors; wherein a network enables messages to be exchanged between the dealer interfaces and the investor interfaces; enabling the dealers to communicate an inventory of debt security issues to the investors via the investor interfaces; enabling at least a particular investor to submit an inquiry, via the respective investor interface, for trading a particular one of the debt security issues to multiple ones of the dealers; enabling the dealers to provide respective offers and/or bids, via their respective dealer interfaces, in response to the incluiry submitted thereto; temporarily storing the offers and/or bids provided by the dealers; releasing the offers and/or bids to the particular investor concurrently for consideration thereby; selecting, by the plurality of investors, different inventories from the available inventory, using a plurality of filters for displaying of the different inventories comprising offers, bids, and actively-traded securities; and sorting the different inventories according to a plurality of fields including size, rating, issuer, ticker, coupon, maturity, spread, benchmark, dealer, and update time when details of an different inventories are updated by at least one of the plurality of the dealers and investors. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method for providing computer-implemented trading for debt securities, comprising:
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providing respective computer-generated interfaces for a plurality of dealers and a plurality of investors; wherein a network enables messages to be exchanged between the dealer interfaces and the investor interfaces; enabling the dealers to communicate an inventory of debt security issues to the investors via the investor interfaces; enabling at least a particular investor to submit an inquiry, via the respective investor interface, for trading a particular one of the debt security issues to multiple ones of the dealers; enabling the dealers to provide respective offers and/or bids, via their respective dealer interfaces, in response to the inquiry submitted thereto; temporarily storing the offers and/or bids provided by the dealers; releasing the offers and/or bids to the particular investor concurrently for consideration thereby; transmitting to the plurality of dealers information to inform each of the plurality of dealers of competition between the plurality of dealers; receiving a selection from the plurality of investors of the plurality of dealers; displaying to the plurality of dealers selected by the plurality of investors details relating to the investor, including the investor identity and the investor inquiry; displaying to the pluraliw of investors responses to the investor inquiry received from the plurality of dealers; initiating spot negotiations between the at least one of the plurality of investors and at least one of the plurality of dealers wherein the investor confirms the spot versus a benchmark; and receiving at least one of an acceptance and a re-spot of the benchmark from the at least one of the plurality of investors via a counteroffer to complete the trade.
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55. A method for providing computer-implemented trading for debt securities, comprising:
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providing respective computer-generated interfaces for a plurality of dealers and a plurality of investors; wherein a network enables messages to be exchanged between the dealer interfaces and the investor interfaces; enabling the dealers to communicate an inventory of debt security issues to the investors via the investor interfaces; enabling at least a particular investor to submit an inquiry, via the respective investor interface, for trading a particular one of the debt security issues to multiple ones of the dealers; enabling the dealers to provide respective offers and/or bids, via their respective dealer interfaces, in response to the inquiry submitted thereto; temporarily storing the offers and/or bids provided by the dealers; releasing the offers and/or bids to the particular investor concurrently for consideration thereby; transmitting to the plurality of dealers information to inform each of the plurality of dealers of competition between the plurality of dealers; receiving a selection from the plurality of investors of the plurality of dealers; displaying to the plurality of dealers selected by the plurality of investors details relating to the investor, including the investor identity and the investor inquiry; displaying to the plurality of investors responses to the investor inquiry received from the plurality of dealers; identifying from the available inventory of the available issues, most actively traded issues based on at least one of size of the traded security when it was originally issued; and designating the identified most actively traded issues in separate categories, including financials, industrials, utilities, international organizations. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72)
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