Patent ID: 8620787

Claim:
A computing system for facilitating the identification, sourcing, and acquisition of distressed debt, the computing system comprising: at least one user interface; at least one communication interface; at least one processor; and data storage having stored thereon instructions executable by the at least one processor for carrying out a set of functions, the set of functions including: the computing system receiving loan-profile data records from at least one loan-profile data source, wherein each received loan-profile data record is associated with an original loan from a respective original lender to a respective original borrower for a respective original loan amount, and wherein each received loan-profile data record includes data that reflects one or more loan characteristics of the loan associated with that loan-profile data record; the computing system storing at least a subset of the received loan-profile data records in a manner that is organized at least according to at least one loan characteristic included in the respective received loan-profile data records; the computing system receiving special-purpose-vehicle-(SPV)-modeling data records from at least one SPV-modeling data source; the computing system mining at least a subset of the received SPV-modeling data records to extract therefrom and store associations between respective original loans and respective downstream pieces of said respective original loans, wherein the associations include identifications of respective downstream lending institutions currently holding said respective downstream pieces of said respective original loans; the computing system presenting via the at least one user interface (i) access to the stored subset of received loan-profile data records according to the manner in which the subset is stored and (ii) access to the stored associations between respective original loans and respective downstream pieces of said respective original loans, wherein said access to the loan-profile data records and said access to the stored associations are correlated with one another by at least one loan characteristic; and the computing system providing a target tracker, wherein the target tracker comprises a target data store and a target user interface, wherein the target data store comprises target-company profile records and the stored loan-profile records, and wherein the target user interface provides access to said target-company profile records and stored loan-profile records.