Patent ID: 8457995

Claim:
Apparatus for providing a financial products market, comprising: a data processing system having a program executing computer, a data storage device, and an output device; a plurality of financial product data records specifying data regarding one or more financial products; a plurality of participant disclosure data records specifying data disclosed by financial product participants regarding one or more financial product participants or regarding one or more properties which are a subject of the financial product; said plurality of financial product data records and plurality of participant disclosure data records being stored in said data storage device; computer programs executing on said data processing system for: receiving financial product data records from said data storage device; receiving participant disclosure data records from said data storage device; providing the financial product data records or the participant disclosure data records from said data processing system to a data processing system participant; and calculating a price to be charged to the financial product participant in which said price is in part determined by the financial product participant's disclosure of data which is specified in the participant disclosure data records.