Consolidated Limits Repository for Trading System Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for managing trading limits are inadequate, leading to increased risk due to insufficient controls, inefficiencies in tracking limit changes, and the need for manual searches across multiple systems, which can result in catastrophic risks and non-compliance with regulations.
Innovation Solution
An automated computer system with a consolidated repository manages limits data, providing a centralized and accurate view of trading limits through an interactive interface, ensuring only authorized users request and approve limits, and communicates these limits to trading systems, while offering real-time reporting and alert functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If limits are maintained in multiple separate databases and configuration files, then flexibility in limit management is preserved, but system complexity increases and consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates limits data from multiple separate databases and configuration files into a single centralized limits repository. This unified repository stores all limits data in one location, eliminating data inconsistency across multiple systems while reducing overall system complexity through centralization.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized limits repository serves as a universal data source that provides limits information to multiple trading systems and applications. This single repository fulfills multiple functions including storing limits, managing approvals, providing audit trails, and serving various trading platforms, thereby reducing the need for multiple separate limit management systems.
2Productivity
If manual processes are used to track and approve limit changes, then system simplicity is maintained, but time consumption increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures approval workflows and authorization rules in the centralized limits repository. Before limit changes are requested, the system has already established the approval hierarchy and routing logic, enabling automatic routing of limit requests to appropriate approvers without manual intervention to determine approval paths.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms where the system automatically notifies approvers of pending limit requests, tracks approval status, and updates trading systems in real-time. This continuous feedback loop eliminates manual tracking and significantly reduces the time required for limit approval while maintaining proper authorization controls.
3Reliability
If comprehensive audit trails are implemented for all limit changes, then compliance improves, but data storage requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and stores only the essential audit information in the centralized limits repository, such as who requested the limit change, who approved it, when it was effective, and what the specific limit parameters were. This selective extraction of critical audit data maintains comprehensive compliance tracking while avoiding storage of unnecessary information that would bloat data requirements.
4Reliability
If real-time limit enforcement is implemented across multiple trading systems, then risk control improves, but system complexity and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized limits repository acts as an intermediary between trading systems and risk management requirements. Trading systems query the repository for applicable limits and receive real-time enforcement decisions without needing complex embedded limit management logic. This intermediary approach enables real-time risk control while keeping individual trading systems relatively simple.
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AI summary
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automated computer implemented system maintains and manages limits data relating to restrictions associated with a client, trader, machine or other entity. The system comprises a consolidated repository; an interactive user interface; a trading system interface that communicates approved limit to one or more trading or limit enforcement systems; and a computer processor. The computer processor is programmed to: receive inputs from a plurality of sources; identify one or more authorized users to request and approve the limits; effectuate the one or more limits for the trade request via one or more trading or limit enforcement systems; and provide, via the interactive user interface, a reporting function for data relating to one or more limits.