Patent ID: 8489496

Claim:
A consolidated risk monitoring system configured to monitor financial transaction networks to detect market deviations in a plurality of categories of financial articles of trade, the system comprising: a network interface device configured to collect integrity-verified data messages originating from a plurality of sources trading at least one financial article of trade; and a processing system that includes at least one processor, the processing system coupled to the network interface device and configured to: receive a set of risk parameters for each category of the plurality of categories of financial articles of trade; identify a deviant transaction from the collected data messages based on comparison of at least some of the collected integrity-verified data messages to the received set of risk parameters for at least one of the plurality of categories; perform a risk priority level calculation for each identified deviant transaction; and generate a risk priority level alert message based on the performed risk priority level calculation and associated deviant transaction, wherein the plurality of categories includes at least one of the following categories: 1) buying power/threshold restrictions, 2) restricted and hard to borrow securities risk management, 3) short sell restriction risk management, 4) single order quantity limit management, 5) single order value risk management, and 6) realized and unrealized profit and loss.