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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8140420 | Method and apparatus for processing and routing transactions Option orders are processed by receiving an option order, the option order including information identifying a customer, and information identifying a desired option. One of a plurality of option exchanges is selected to complete the option order, the selecting base... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140415 | Automated global risk management A computerized risk management method and system for facilitating analysis and quantification of risk associated with a financial transaction. An automated global risk management system maintains a database relating risk variables including world events government a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131624 | Method, software program, and system for offering debt The present invention relates to a method, software program, and system for offering debt. More particularly, in one embodiment a method for offering a predetermined amount of debt is provided, comprising: dividing the debt into a plurality of debt elements, wherein... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126800 | Public offering risk management The present invention provides an auction system that allows IPO sales to be offered in an open and transparent manner, wherein, a certain percentage (up to 100%) of shares in an IPO can be offered to qualified bidders at a “buy now” pre-auction price, set by an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121937 | Gaming industry risk management clearinghouse Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for gathering, organizing and presenting on a real time basis information pertinent to Risks associated with subjects related to the Gaming Industry. Risks associated with the Gaming Industry can be manage... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121932 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121931 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121930 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112341 | System and method for determining the liquidity of a credit The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108287 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108286 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108285 | Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108276 | Method and apparatus for reference data scrubbing A system, medium storing processor-executable process steps, and method for supporting a derivative transaction, the method including receiving data identifying a reference entity participating in the derivative transaction; receiving data identifying at least a fir... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103570 | System and method for creating and trading near one delta securities A financial instrument is disclosed that provides spread exposure to volatility in an underlying security within an upper and lower range of prices. This is accomplished by combining a long option for the underlying security at one strike price and a short option fo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099357 | Automated political risk management A risk management method and system for facilitating analysis and quantification of risk associated with politically exposed persons is disclosed. A computerized political risk management system maintains a database relating individuals to politically sensitive posi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095554 | Global inventory warehouse Building and maintaining an accurate and up-to-date global inventory of hardware, software, and telecommunications assets deployed throughout an organization is described. A global inventor warehouse (GIW) receives an identification and physical location of these as... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090645 | Order centric tracking system and protocol for communications with handheld trading units A computerized method and system for tracking orders implemented on a trading floor exchange is disclosed. The system is order-centric and is configured to route orders to a booth and floor broker in accordance with a symbol associated with the particular security b... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086617 | Link analysis mapping program risk management A method and system for managing risk by indicating links between one or more persons or entities which can include a process that gathers information about individuals and organizations into a computerized system where it can be analyzed to associate one or more in... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8074873 | Systems and methods to perform credit valuation adjustment analyses Systems and methods are provided to perform credit valuation adjustment analyses. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069264 | System for processing raw financial data streams to produce and distribute structured and validated product offering data to subscribing clients A method and system is disclosed for processing information provided from various content providers in the form objects having states subject to periodic updates. Formatted information indicating a current state of the objects are delivered to subscribing clients in... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069105 | Hedge fund risk management A computerized method and system for managing risk associated with a Hedge Fund is disclosed. Information relating to Hedge Funds is gathered and stored as data in preparation for a risk inquiry search relating to a Hedge Fund. Documents and sources of information c... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8041624 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and evaluating limit order trading Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for generating quality data associated with an option limit order are provided. In some embodiments, an option limit order is received, the option limit order including information identifying a customer, ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036969 | Basket option hedging method A method and system for hedging a correlation risk associated with a basket option that includes a plurality of securities that includes the step of selecting at least two of the plurality of securities and, in the next step, forming a best-of option for the at leas... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032434 | Systems and methods for issuing and maintaining a bond According to some embodiments, a bond is issued to an investor in exchange for value. The bond may be, for example, a tax-free municipal bond associated with (i) a spread to a pre-determined index, (ii) a nominal maturity date, (iii) an initial mandatory tender date... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028087 | System and method for message processing and routing A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of le... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8028001 | Systems and methods for facilitating access to documents via a set of content selection tags Systems and methods are provided to facilitate access to documents via a set of content selection tags. According to one embodiment, information is received from a content reader. For example, a content controller may receive information from a content reader via a ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024259 | Method and apparatus for agreement netting A system, method, apparatus, computer program code and means for performing a netting analysis of an agreement is provided. Pursuant to some embodiments, the netting analysis is performed by receiving agreement information, the agreement information identifying a pa... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024251 | Bond issue risk management The present invention provides an auction system that allows bond issue sales to be offered in an open and transparent manner, wherein, a certain percentage (up to 100%) of bonds in a bond issue can be offered to qualified bidders at a “buy now” pre-auction pric... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010436 | Methods, systems and securities for assuring a company an opportunity to sell stock after a specified time Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and securities for assuring a company an opportunity to sell stock (e.g., common stock) after a specified time. One embodiment relates to receiving collateral security data including a collatera... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005750 | Method and system for providing principal protection exposure to equity markets Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing principal protection exposure to equity markets. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer implementable method for performing data proces... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005738 | Credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, and a system and method for operating a credit index The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit. ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996290 | Financial transaction modeling system Systems and methods are provided to model financial transactions. According to some embodiments, simple events, branch events, composite events, and/or contingent events associated with a financial transaction are defined. The events may then be used to automaticall... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979347 | Automated online sales risk management The present invention contemplates a risk management system for facilitating an e-commerce transaction wherein the participants to the transaction engage in commerce using different currencies. An automated sales risk management system facilitates a transaction by p... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979342 | Dynamic reallocation hedge accounting A hedged exposure and an associated hedging instrument can be accounted for to reduce periodic earnings volatility associated with the hedged exposure. The accounting to reduce the earnings volatility includes designating a portion of the value of the financial expo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974911 | Model-based selection of trade execution strategies Effective selection of trade execution strategies using a multi-dimensional model is disclosed. A relationship exists between order difficulty and execution strategy. Execution strategy depends on order difficulty, and order difficulty has many dimensions. The multi... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970681 | Reduction of financial instrument volatility An earnings volatility reduction procedure includes determining a first sensitivity value of a portfolio to underlying market conditions, trading in an immunizing instrument having a second sensitivity value substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in value of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958251 | Method and system for processing raw financial data streams to produce and distribute structured and validated product offering data to subscribing clients A method and system is disclosed for processing information provided from various content providers in the form objects having states subject to periodic updates. Formatted information indicating a current state of the objects are delivered to subscribing clients in... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958025 | Method and system for processing raw financial data streams to produce and distribute structured and validated product offering objects A real time information manager which processes raw data from data providers, such as feeds of current information about financial product offerings, is provided. Raw data objects received from various data providers are analyzed, formatted, and a current version of... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949590 | Apparatus, method and system for designing and trading macroeconomic investment views The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system for a macroeconomic equity investment design and trade system (the Wavefront system). The disclosure teaches a set of quantitative tools to help investors design trades around macro themes... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937313 | Method and system for stress testing simulations of the behavior of financial instruments A method and system for simulating changes in volatility for a price of a particular option on an underlying financial instrument is disclosed. A volatility surface model having at least one surface parameter is provided along with a set of volatilities for a plural... | 05/03/2011 |
