Patent ID: 7401043

Claim:
A method for forming a new market for a newly-issued security or fixed rate financing instrument comprising: issuing the security as a stock or a bond, or issuing the fixed rate financing instrument printed thereon: at least one issuing legal entity specified thereon which issues the financing instrument as evidence of debt to acquire funds to finance at least one operation; a face value specified thereon to be paid to said issuing legal entity in exchange for owning the financing instrument; a fixed interest rate specified thereon defining periodical interest payments to an instrument holder as a percentage of the face value; and at least one of (1) a guarantee ratio g being defined as a percentage of the interest payments and the face value to be paid back to the instrument holder as committed by at least one third party to issuance, if said legal entity defaults, 0<g<100, (2) a fixed-rate dividend d to be paid to the instrument holder after an operation financed through said financing instrument starts making profits, said fixed-rate dividend d being defined as a percentage of said profits to be paid to the instrument holder periodically, 0<d<100, and (3) a fixed-amount dividend being more than 0 and to be paid to the instrument holder after an operation financed through said financing instrument starts making profits; providing a server and a plurality of issuing machines connected to the server via a network; and placing the plurality of issuing machines at locations accessible to the public; receiving an identification (ID) recording medium provided by a potential purchaser by one of the issuing machines; retrieving an identification recorded in the received ID recording medium by said one of the issuing machines; requesting the potential purchaser to input request for a transaction of the security or fixed rate financing instrument by said one of the issuing machines; and processing the requested transaction by said one of the issuing machines by retrieving information via a network from the server; and printing out by said one of the issuing machines a hardcopy of the security or fixed rate financing instrument as purchased by the potential purchaser.