Computer-implemented apparatus and method for providing information concerning a financial instrument
AssigneeStreet Diligence, Inc.
InventorsStephen G. Hazelton, Jarvis Sill, Derek Petillo
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Abstract
Various embodiments provide, to a user, a representation of a debt capital structure of an enterprise that graphically identifies corporate relationships of companies within the enterprise, financial instruments issued by a company within the enterprise, and for a user-selected financial instrument, of a set of companies that are guarantors of financial obligations associated with the user-selected financial instrument, or for a user-selected company, a set of financial instruments the financial obligations of which are guaranteed by the user-selected company.
Claims4
A computer-implemented method of graphically and interactively displaying a debt capital structure of an enterprise, wherein the method utilizes computer processes comprising:
- receiving and storing, at a server, a set of electronic documents pertinent to the debt capital structure of the enterprise;
- parsing, by the server, the set of documents to extract information identifying:
- a set of financial instruments, each instrument in the set issued by a company within the enterprise;
- for each financial instrument in the set of financial instruments, the issuer thereof, and each company in the enterprise serving as guarantor of obligations created thereby;
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- parent-subsidiary relationships of companies within the enterprise;
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- analyzing the parent-subsidiary relationships and issuer-guarantor relationships to construct a corporate tree of the enterprise reflecting the foregoing relationships;
- causing, by the server, an interactive hierarchical graphical display of the corporate tree of the enterprise, in which each company in the displayed corporate tree has a graphical representation graphically connected by a line to at least one other company in the displayed corporate tree, so as to indicate a parent-subsidiary relationship, the displayed corporate tree graphically and interactively representing the complex ownership and hierarchical structuring across the enterprise;
- wherein, in the displayed corporate tree, appears (i) a graphical representation of each company in an issuing set of companies in the enterprise that has issued at least one financial instrument and (ii) a visually associated graphical representation of the at least one corresponding financial instrument, wherein the graphical representations of the financial instruments are graphically selectable;
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- wherein, responsive to receiving by the server a user's graphical selection of the graphical representation of a given financial instrument in the displayed corporate tree, causing, by the server, graphical indication, in the displayed corporate tree, of graphical representations of a set of companies that are guarantors of financial obligations associated with the given financial instrument.
A computer-implemented method of graphically and interactively displaying a debt capital structure of an enterprise, wherein the method utilizes computer processes comprising:
- receiving and storing, at a server, a set of electronic documents pertinent to the debt capital structure of the enterprise;
- parsing, by the server, the set of documents to extract information identifying:
- a set of financial instruments, each instrument in the set issued by a company within the enterprise;
- for each financial instrument in the set of financial instruments, the issuer thereof, and each company in the enterprise serving as guarantor of financial obligations created thereby;
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- parent-subsidiary relationships of companies within the enterprise;
- analyzing the parent-subsidiary relationships and issuer-guarantor relationships to construct a corporate tree of the enterprise reflecting the foregoing relationships;
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- causing, by the server, an interactive hierarchical graphical display of the corporate tree of the enterprise, in which each company in the displayed corporate tree has a graphical representation graphically connected by a line to at least one other company in the displayed corporate tree, so as to indicate a parent-subsidiary relationship, the displayed corporate tree graphically and interactively representing the complex ownership and hierarchical structuring across the enterprise;
- wherein, in the displayed corporate tree, appears (i) graphical representation of each company in an issuing set of companies in the enterprise that has issued at least one financial instrument and (ii) a visually associated graphical representation of the at least one corresponding financial instrument, wherein the graphical representation of each company is graphically selectable;
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- wherein, responsive to receiving by the server a user's graphical selection of the graphical representation of a given company in the displayed corporate tree, causing, by the server, graphical indication of a set of financial instruments, in the displayed corporate tree, that include financial obligations guaranteed by the given company.
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