Patent ID: 7444301

Claim:
A method for distributing a financial instrument in a primary offering, the method comprising: receiving marketing data on at least one previous transaction of a previous financial instrument similar to a proposed financial instrument; receiving market data relevant to the proposed financial instrument; modeling initial financial parameter data associated with the corresponding proposed financial instrument based on at least the received market data relevant to the financial instrument and marketing data on the at least one previous transaction of a previous financial instrument similar to the proposed financial instrument having the initial parameter data; communicating the initial financial parameter data between an issuer and an underwriter in a posting document via a communications network, the initial financial parameter data relating to a proposed offering of the financial instrument; determining final financial parameter data based on the initial parameter data and an agreement between the issuer and the underwriter; generating a regulatory filing on the offering the regulatory filing consistent with the final financial parameter data; and submitting the regulatory filing to a securities regulation system via the communications network.