Financial data processing system

1. A method of processing financial articles of trade, comprising:

collecting real time data from a plurality of liquidity destinations trading at least one financial article of trade, said real time data including information on submitted and completed transactions of financial articles of trade, wherein said real time data comprises disparate data of varying formats corresponding to associated liquidity destinations; and

from said real time data, identifying, using a computer, a transaction which an entity is financially liable as one of a chain of parties involved in affecting said identified transaction, wherein said entity was previously unaware of its submission to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations because another party in said chain of parties submitted said identified transaction to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying using said computer relevant portions of said real time data comprising one or more transactions for which said entity is financially liable and including said identified transaction;

comparing, using an analysis component of said computer, said relevant portions of said real time data against user defined criteria; and

identifying a situation when said relevant portions of said real time data matches said user defined criteria for purposes of performing risk management for said entity.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

aggregating said real time data collected from said plurality of liquidity destinations; and

normalizing said real time data that is collected and aggregated into a standardized form.

4. A system for processing financial articles of trade, comprising:

a collector configured to couple to and collect real time data directly from a plurality of liquidity destinations, said liquidity destinations for trading at least one of securities, commodities, options, futures and derivatives, said real time data including information on submitted and completed transactions of financial articles of trade, wherein said real time data comprises disparate data of varying formats corresponding to associated liquidity destinations;

a computer comprising an analysis component coupled to said collector and configured to identify a transaction from said real time data which an entity is financially liable as one of a chain of parties involved in affecting said identified transaction, wherein said entity was previously unaware of its submission to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations because another party in said chain of parties submitted said identified transaction to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein said analysis component is configured to identify relevant portions of said real time data comprising one or more transactions for which said entity is financially liable and including said identified transaction, to compare said relevant portions of said real time data against user defined criteria, and to identify a situation when said relevant portions of said real time data matches said user defined criteria for purposes of performing risk management for said entity.

6. The system of claim 4 , further comprising:

an aggregation component coupled to said collector and said analysis component programmed to aggregate said real time data collected from said plurality of liquidity destinations, normalize said real time data that is collected and aggregated into a standardized form, and stream said real time data in the standardized form for further processing by said analysis component.

7. A method of processing financial articles of trade, comprising:

collecting real time data from a plurality of liquidity destinations trading at least one financial article of trade, said real time data including information on submitted and completed transactions of financial articles of trade, wherein said real time data comprises disparate data of varying formats corresponding to associated liquidity destinations;

from said real time data, identifying, using a computer, a transaction which an entity is financially liable as one of a chain of parties involved in affecting said identified transaction, wherein said entity was previously unaware of its submission to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations because another party in said chain of parties submitted said identified transaction to one of said plurality of liquidity destinations;

establishing user defined criteria to define a situation;

setting a position for said entity at a start of a trading period by considering overnight buying power and stock positions;

updating said position of said entity based on said identified transaction; and performing by said computer a risk calculation to determine if said position violates a risk parameter defining said situation.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

identifying, using said computer, relevant portions of said real time data comprising one or more transactions for which said entity is financially liable and including said identified transaction;

comparing, using an analysis component of said computer, said relevant portions of said real time data against said user defined criteria; and

identifying said situation when said relevant portions of said real time data matches said user defined criteria for purposes of performing risk management for said entity.