Patent ID: 6598028
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method of implementing a central-based universal financial management system on a computer network comprising the following steps:(a) providing a financial account management mechanism configured to receive funds into a plurality of individual financial management accounts, each of said individual financial management accounts comprising a money market fund account from an individual investor, wherein an amount of said funds as a first predetermined amount of a first national or multinational currency is recorded in a computer readable memory; (b) providing an access mechanism configured to enable each of said plurality of individual investors to generate a request message that a second predetermined amount of said funds be exchanged for a second national or multinational currency at a near wholesale currency exchange rate by aggregating each request message from said plurality of individual investors to form a bulk request; each of said request messages includes an information request based on a foreign exchange price discovery of a real time wholesale currency conversion rate, wherein said foreign exchange price discovery is achieved by utilizing competitive forces that bid against each other to provide the lowest conversion rate for said individual investors; (c) providing a trading interface configured to connect said financial account management mechanism to an external currency trading mechanism, said trading interface forwards each of said request messages without charging each of said individual investors a fee to said external currency trading mechanism which performs a conversion transaction based on said foreign exchange price discovery of the real time wholesale currency conversion rate external to said money market fund and based on price discovery that converts said second predetermined amount of said first national or multinational currency at said near wholesale conversion rates and reports said conversion to said financial account management mechanism once the conversion transaction is complete, wherein said financial account management mechanism being configured to record a reduction by said second predetermined amount of said first national or multinational currency in each of said accounts owned by said plurality of individual investors and said currency conversion transaction occurs on a same business day as when each investor sends the request message.