A method for machine-controlled legal portfolio monitoring, comprising:
- receiving, by a computer-based central machine, a loss-calculation request for at least one security of interest, wherein the loss-calculation request is received from a request interface of a computer of at least one legal services provider;
- forwarding the loss-calculation request from the computer-based central machine to a first loss-calculation process block of a computer of a first financial services firm and to a second loss-calculation process block of a computer of a second financial services firm;
- calculating, by each of the first and second loss-calculation process blocks, losses on the security of interest by:
- a) utilizing a transactional data application programming interface (API) to search transactional data in a corresponding transactional database located at one of the first and second financial services firms to obtain securities transactional data of the at least one security of interest;
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- b) processing the securities transactional data of the at least one security of interest to calculate losses attributable to the at least one security of interest at each of the first and second financial services firms;
- wherein the first and second loss-calculation process blocks each utilize an intermediary process block to normalize the transactional data in the transactional databases to a normalized format utilized by the computer-based central machine;
- receiving from the first and second loss-calculation process blocks, by the computer-based central machine, the calculated losses attributable to the at least one security of interest at each of the first and second financial services firms;
- aggregating, by the computer-based central machine, the calculated losses received from the first and second loss-calculation process blocks;
- anonymizing, by the computer-based central machine, the identities of the first and second financial services firms associated with the calculated losses, by applying a proxy mask;
- transmitting, by the computer-based central machine, a loss report comprising the aggregated sum of the calculated losses and the anonymized identities of the first and second financial services firms to a receiving interface of the computer of the at least one legal services provider to enable the at least one legal services provider to view the calculated losses without revealing the identities of the first and second financial firms;
- transmitting, via a litigation proposal management block of the computer-based central machine, at least one security litigation proposal from the at least one legal services provider to at least one of the first and second financial services firms that have incurred losses;
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- transmitting to the at least one legal services provider, via a litigation acceptance management block of the computer-based central machine, a response generated by the at least one of the first and second financial services firms in response to the at least one security litigation proposal.