Securities settlement system
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1. A securities settlement system for settling a trade between trading entities, comprising:
- an interface configured to communicate cash balances with one or more payment systems;
a memory that stores cash and credit line information in a cash and credit line tree structure including multiple levels with (1) credit cash records or (2) liquidity cash records and credit cash records; and
a computer, coupled to the interface and the memory, configured to settle cash obligations to pay or receive cash which are associated with the trade by reducing or minimizing a transfer of cash between cash records in the cash and credit line tree structure for participants associated with the trade to produce a resulting cash balance,wherein the computer is configured to reduce or minimize the transfer of cash by propagating cash obligations associated with the trade in the cash and credit line tree structure to a highest common cash record in the cash and credit line tree structure where the cash obligations associated with the trade cancel, andwherein the computer is further configured to send via the interface to the one or more payment systems the resulting cash balance.
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Abstract
A securities settlement system for settling trades in central depository systems is disclosed. The securities settlement system includes a credit line structure forming a tree structure with a number of levels with credit nodes. The securities settlement system also includes a control system for minimizing the transfer of cash between accounts by propagating cash obligations for each node in the tree structure to a highest common node.
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23 Claims
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1. A securities settlement system for settling a trade between trading entities, comprising:
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an interface configured to communicate cash balances with one or more payment systems; a memory that stores cash and credit line information in a cash and credit line tree structure including multiple levels with (1) credit cash records or (2) liquidity cash records and credit cash records; and a computer, coupled to the interface and the memory, configured to settle cash obligations to pay or receive cash which are associated with the trade by reducing or minimizing a transfer of cash between cash records in the cash and credit line tree structure for participants associated with the trade to produce a resulting cash balance, wherein the computer is configured to reduce or minimize the transfer of cash by propagating cash obligations associated with the trade in the cash and credit line tree structure to a highest common cash record in the cash and credit line tree structure where the cash obligations associated with the trade cancel, and wherein the computer is further configured to send via the interface to the one or more payment systems the resulting cash balance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for settling a trade between trading entities in a securities settlement system, comprising:
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communicating cash balances via an interface with one or more payment systems; storing in a memory cash and credit line information in a cash and credit line tree structure including multiple levels with (1) credit cash records or (2) liquidity cash records and credit cash records; and settling by a computer linked to the memory and to the interface cash obligations to pay or receive cash which are associated with the trade by reducing or minimizing a transfer of cash between cash records in the cash and credit line tree structure for participants associated with the trade to produce a resulting cash balance, reducing or minimizing by the computer the transfer of cash by propagating cash obligations associated with the trade in the cash and credit line tree structure to a highest common cash record in the cash and credit line tree structure where the cash obligations associated with the trade cancel, and sending by the computer via the interface to the one or more payment systems the resulting cash balance. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A securities settlement system for settling a trade between trading entities in a securities settlement system, comprising:
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means for communicating cash balances with one or more payment systems; means for storing in a memory a credit line structure forming a cash and credit line tree structure including multiple levels with (1) credit cash records or (2) liquidity cash records and credit cash records; and means, coupled to the means for communicating and the means for storing, for settling cash obligations to pay or receive cash which are associated with the trade by reducing or minimizing a transfer of cash between cash records in the cash and credit line tree structure for participants associated with the trade to produce a resulting cash balance by propagating cash obligations associated with the trade in the cash and credit line tree structure to a highest common cash record in the cash and credit line tree structure where the cash obligations associated with the trade cancel, and means for sending to the one or more payment systems the resulting cash balance. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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