US Patent 7974905 Outlier trade detection for securities lending transactions

Tools are provided for identifying outliers or variations in trade data derived from securities transactions, such as securities lending transactions. Such outliers may provide an indication that a given trade is suspicious or potentially inappropriate from a customer relationship point of view, a regulatory perspective, or a legal standpoint. Trades identified as outliers can be utilized in regression analyses to analyze specific trades, trader-broker relationships, or other trading activity.