Computer system for controlling a system of managing fluctuating cash flows

Abstract

Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby) for controlling a system of managing cash flows for a transaction. The apparatus includes data processing means arranged for receiving information into memory, including respective descriptions of, statistical assumptions for, and financial assumptions for risks. The data processing means including: calculating means, responsive to said descriptions and assumptions, for calculating expected cash flows corresponding to said risks for time periods; accounting means for determining, responsive to actual cash flow information from occurrence of events corresponding to said risks, for a first party owing the expected cash flows to a second party, and for determining, for the second party owing actual cash flows to the first party, a net settlement, for each of said time periods, between the parties in the transaction, to manage the actual cash flows and the expected cash flows.

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