System and methods for electronic securities underwriting and electronic dissemination of annual financial and disclosure information from issuers to information repositories in accordance with U.S. securities laws and regulations

A method for electronically compiling and disseminating annual financial and disclosure information for existing offerings of securities in the secondary market in accordance with U.S. securities laws and regulations for issuers of securities such as municipalities, institutions and corporations comprising:

• a) providing at least one server and a central database, the central database containing a plurality of disclosure forms in the central database, the disclosure forms having information required for the existing offering;
• b) providing an internal user interface in communication with the server;
• b) accessing the internal user interface via a global computer network using one or more authentication steps followed by at least one user;
• c) selecting one of the forms;
• d) editing the disclosure form using at least data stored on the central database related to the existing offering;
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• e) storing the form on the central database for later editing or later dissemination to one or more of the at least one user or an information repository.

A computerized system for electronic underwriting of new offerings of securities in the primary market in accordance with US securities laws and regulations for municipalities, institutions and corporations and electronically compiling and disseminating annual financial and disclosure information for existing offerings of securities in the secondary market in accordance with US securities laws and regulations for issuers of securities comprising:

• a user interface means for creating, editing, and disseminating information relating to new offerings and annual financial and disclosure information relating to existing offerings of securities;
• server means for storing said created and edited information in a central database supported by said server;
• said server means for processing user input and user commands for creating, editing, and disseminating the information, the user interface means in communication with said server means for completing the information and delivering dissemination requests to said server means;
• said server means having means for delivering to said user interface means the created and edited information stored in said central database;
• means for allowing simultaneous access to said server means through said user interface means by a plurality of users;
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• said user interface means having electronically linked data fields means connecting to said server and said central database.