Patent ID: 8781943
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for electronically trading forward rate agreements (FRAs) using a computer system comprising at least one computer, the computer system being programmed to carry out the method and storing respective books of FRA positions for at least one tenor for each of a plurality of traders, the book of a first one of the traders having a respective initial net position for each tenor of the first trader's book, the method comprising: the computer system executing one or more unilateral FRA trades between the first trader and one or more of the other traders so that the net position of the first trader's book, for at least one tenor, is changed; and the computer system subsequently selecting and executing a plurality of International Money Market (IMM) FRA trades on behalf of the first trader, the computer system making the selection as a function of the previously executed unilateral FRA trades and so as to offset at least some of the unilateral FRA trades thereby returning the first trader's net position, for at least one tenor, back to or at least closer to its initial net position.