Abstract: Tools for implementing employee stock plans including stock options, restricted stock awards and/or and stock purchase plans are provided. A system is provided that comprises volatile data storage for storing participant information pursuant to a data transfer from a non-volatile database of a third party administrative system; an interface system for interacting with a participant regarding a requested transaction and enabling the participant to select a response pertaining to the employee stock plan; a trading system for conducting individual participant transactions on a public exchange, a communication system that connects a participant to the system; and an updating system that updates the participant information in the volatile data storage according to the selections and transactions made by the participant.

Abstract: A computer-based system for trading financial instruments alerts a computer operated by a financial advisor at points where a client interacts with the system. Specifically, in response to the client entering an order to trade a financial instrument, a first alert is transmitted in real-time to the financial advisor's computer including information pertaining to the trade. In the case of validation, in response to the first alert, the user of the financial advisor computer can, in real-time, take action regarding the validated trade prior to execution of the trade. On the other hand, in the case of non-validation, a second alert is transmitted to the financial advisor's computer, and the user of the financial advisor computer can, in real-time, again take action regarding the non-validated trade prior to execution of the trade.

Abstract: Tools for implementing employee stock plans including stock options, restricted stock awards and/or and stock purchase plans are provided. The invention comprises a volatile data storage for storing participant information pursuant to a data transfer from a non-volatile database of a third party administrative system; an interface system for interacting with a participant regarding a requested transaction and enabling the participant to select a response pertaining to the employee stock plan; a trading system for conducting individual participant transactions on a public exchange, a communication system that connects a participant to the system; and means for updating the participant information in the volatile data storage according to the selections and transactions made by the participant.