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Communication of credit filtered prices in an electronic brokerage system

  • US 7,636,683 B1
  • Filed: 09/11/1998
  • Issued: 12/22/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized trading system for trading Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs) between traders associated with a plurality of credit granting entities, the system comprising:

  • a quote distribution system which contains information received from a plurality of credit granting entities indicating whether that credit granting entity is extending unilateral credit to other credit granting entities;

    at least some of the credit granting entities having at least one maker screen and at least one taker screen associated therewith;

    (a) the maker screen being configured to permit a trader to send maker price quotation messages to the quote distribution system, the maker price quotation message indicating a bid price at which the trader is willing to sell one or more of the FRAs and/or an offer price at which the trader is willing to buy one or more of the FRAs; and

    (b) the taker screen being configured to permit a trader to view and accept dealable price quotation messages received from the quote distribution system; and

    the quote distribution system;

    (a) determining which pairs of credit granting entities are credit bearing counter-parties which extend bilateral credit to one another as a function of the unilateral credit information, said determination being made as a function of at least two respective assigned risk factors including a volatility factor for each of the FRAs, the at least two of the assigned risk factors being different from one another; and

    (b) sending dealable price quotation messages to each credit granting entity indicating the best available bid and/or offer that originates from one or more credit bearing counter-parties of that credit granting entity.

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