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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2004
Peter Hansen, Stamford, CT (US);
Nicolay Landmark, Hall Green, GB;
Lars Kragh, Stamford, CT (US);
NYFIX, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In a trading environment that comprises buy side traders and securities brokers, a computer process capable of preventing securities brokers from receiving information irrelevant to a commission payment for a securities transaction. The process comprises means for providing an overview of commission payments for a predetermined time period, means for providing details of step-out payments for the predetermined period, means for adjusting step-in amounts and frequencies, means for providing notification that a commission payment has been stepped out and is capable of being credited, means for automatically suggesting and performing step-ins and step-outs, and means for assessing the step-outs and step-ins against a predetermined budget.