Pipeline Financial Group, Inc.

Itg Software Solutions, Inc.

James J Angel

Henri Waelbroeck

Fred J Federspiel

One or more aspects comprise: (a) receiving confidential information that comprises data regarding first and second market participants; (b) receiving order and targeting parameters from said first participant; (c) receiving confidential trading interest information from said second participant; (d) identifying said second participant as a participant likely to take a contra side of said order; (e) routing said order to said second participant without revealing said first participant's identity or other confidential information regarding said first market participant, and wherein no information regarding said second participant or said confidential trading interest information received from said second participant is transferred to said first participant; and (f) producing a targeted dissemination list of market participants based on said confidential information and said order and targeting parameters, and wherein identifying a second participant that is most likely to take a contra side of said order is based on said dissemination list.

Methods and systems for directing and executing certified trading interests

Preferred embodiments of the subject invention comprise: (a) electronically receiving securities order-related data regarding a set of securities market participants; (b) electronically storing the received order-related data regarding the set of securities market participants; (c) electronically receiving a securities order-related query (or order parameters) from a first securities market participant; (d) based on the order-related query (or order parameters) received from the first securities market participant and on the securities order-related data regarding the set of securities market participants, computing a dissemination list of securities market participants based on ranking likely contras by probability of execution; and (e) transmitting that dissemination list to an entity who has been granted the privilege of receiving such lists in exchange for being contractually bound to respect confidentiality of the dissemination list and to use the list only for the purpose of sending securities-related information to members of the list.

Method for directing and executing certified trading interests

Preferred embodiments of the subject invention overcome the limitations of known trading interest targeting and execution systems by (1) enabling market participants to limit targeting of trading interests to only those other market participants likely to have a significant contra-interest; (2) enabling market participants to ensure that other market participants' disseminated trading interests are legitimate; and (3) enabling auctions among trading interests targeted and validated in this manner. Software of a preferred embodiment identifies likely contra-interests by analyzing information from various sources regarding certified trading interests. Preferred embodiments that route and otherwise manage orders based on trading interest information are also described.

Preferred embodiments of the subject invention comprise the steps of: (a) electronically receiving first participant information, said first participant information including a first order having a first price and a first size; (b) electronically receiving a second order having a second price and a second size from a second participant; (c) executing said second order against said first order if said first price matches said second price and said first size matches said second size, and if said first participant information indicates that said first order is exposed to immediate matching against incoming orders; and (d) executing randomly-timed match check events wherein other orders are matched against the first order if said first price and said first size match prices and sizes of said other orders and if said first participant information indicates that said first order is to be exposed to randomly-timed match check events.

Preferred embodiments of the subject invention overcome the limitations of known trading interest dissemination and execution systems by (1) enabling market participants to limit dissemination of trading interests to only those other market participants likely to have a significant contra-interest, (2) enabling market participants to ensure that other market participants' disseminated trading interests are legitimate, and (3) enabling auctions among trading interests targeted and validated in this manner. Software of a preferred embodiment identifies likely contra-interests by analyzing information from various sources regarding certified trading interests.

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Arlington, VA, United States of America

James J Angel