FIXED INCOME SECURITIES MARKET MODEL

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating financial interactions relating to fixed income securities. In one aspect, a computer-based method for facilitating a transfer of a fixed income security includes receiving an indication from a computer-based interface device that a initiating party seeks a counterparty for a financial transaction involving the transfer of the fixed income security, accessing data in an electronic database relating to a plurality of potential counterparties for the financial transaction and assigning to one or more of the plurality of potential counterparties an indication as to likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction. The indication of likelihood that the potential counterparty will engage in the financial transaction is based on the data in the electronic database.

主权项

1. A computer-based method for processing offers received from a plurality of potential counterparties to engage in a proposed financial transaction involving a transfer of a fixed income security,
wherein the plurality of potential counterparties comprises one or more potential counterparties specifically identified by an initiating party as a potential counterparty to the financial transaction and one or more potential counterparties selected by a computer-based matching engine as likely being interested in the proposed financial transaction, the computer-based method comprising: receiving one or more offers from the potential counterparties specifically identified by the initiating party; receiving one or more offers from the potential counterparties selected by the computer-based matching engine; and identifying, among the received offers, one or more of the received offers that alone or collectively provide the initiating party a best price for a quantity of the fixed income security that satisfies requirements of the proposed financial transaction.