Method and system for initiating and clearing trades
First Claim
1. A method for straight through processing of trades by electronically exchanging data related to financial transactions between a plurality of price providers which provide price quotes for trading financial instruments and execute trades and a plurality of customers of the plurality of price providers through a plurality of electronic portals, wherein at least two of the plurality of electronic portals are adapted to use one of multiple different standardized portal-specific data formats, and wherein a particular customer may use any of the plurality of electronic portals to which the customer has access to communicate with the plurality of price providers, the method comprising:
- linking each of the plurality of electronic portals and the plurality of price providers to a central transit point through which data from all of the plurality of electronic portals is transmitted;
receiving customer data from each of the plurality of electronic portals, wherein the customer data is received in a first standardized portal-specific format corresponding to the particular portal of the plurality of electronic portals through which the customer data is received;
normalizing the received, standardized data from the first standardized portal-specific format in which the data is received into a second standardized format, wherein the first standardized portal-specific format is different from the second standardized format; and
transmitting the normalized data through the central transit point to at least one of the plurality of price providers.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for facilitating the exchange of data between one or more price providers and customers who communicate with the price providers through various portals, each of which may use it own data format. In transmitting data from customer to price provider, the data output from each portal is normalized to a standardized format and then transmitted to the appropriate price provider(s) where the data exchanged with the various portals can be viewed by a trader at a single display or can be exchanged with an automated pricing engine. The customer may also be provided with a universal Web site at which a customer may access any of the portals'"'"' Web sites to simplify access for the customer as well.
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41 Claims
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1. A method for straight through processing of trades by electronically exchanging data related to financial transactions between a plurality of price providers which provide price quotes for trading financial instruments and execute trades and a plurality of customers of the plurality of price providers through a plurality of electronic portals, wherein at least two of the plurality of electronic portals are adapted to use one of multiple different standardized portal-specific data formats, and wherein a particular customer may use any of the plurality of electronic portals to which the customer has access to communicate with the plurality of price providers, the method comprising:
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linking each of the plurality of electronic portals and the plurality of price providers to a central transit point through which data from all of the plurality of electronic portals is transmitted; receiving customer data from each of the plurality of electronic portals, wherein the customer data is received in a first standardized portal-specific format corresponding to the particular portal of the plurality of electronic portals through which the customer data is received; normalizing the received, standardized data from the first standardized portal-specific format in which the data is received into a second standardized format, wherein the first standardized portal-specific format is different from the second standardized format; and transmitting the normalized data through the central transit point to at least one of the plurality of price providers. - 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)
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25. A method for straight through processing of trades by electronically exchanging data related to financial transactions between a plurality of price providers which provide price quotes for trading financial instruments and execute trades and a plurality of customers of the price provider through a plurality of electronic portals, wherein at least two of the plurality of electronic portals are adapted to use one of multiple different portal-specific data formats, and wherein a particular customer of the plurality of customers may use any of the plurality of electronic portals to which the particular customer has access to communicate with the price provider, the method comprising:
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linking each of the plurality of electronic portals and the plurality of price providers to a central transit point through which the data is transmitted; receiving data from at least one of the plurality of price providers to be sent to a particular customer through a particular portal of the plurality of electronic portals, wherein the data is received in a first standardized format; translating the received data from the first standardized format into a second standardized portal-specific format, wherein the second standardized portal-specific format is different from the first standardized format; and transmitting the data in the second standardized portal-specific format through the central transit point to the particular customer. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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