ELECTRONIC NETTING SYSTEM FOR BILATERAL TRADES

摘要

An electronic netting system. The system includes: a plurality of individual, segregated counterparties for providing bilateral trades; and a multi-lateral transaction hub for providing an aggregation of trades between the counterparties and providing for multi-lateral netting of selected and authorized bilateral trades. In the preferred embodiment, the transaction hub includes: a trade processing system; and a netting system in communication with the trade processing system for providing for the optimized, multi-lateral netting of selected and authorized bilateral trades. Also, in the preferred embodiment, the system may further include a trading system in communication with the transaction hub.