Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning a company's proxies associated with a company's shares from a financial intermediary to a lender are disclosed. In accordance with an aspect of the invention a system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a number of the company's shares for which the financial intermediary has not received proxy voting instructions and, for a plurality of lenders, the number of the company's shares loaned by the lender. The processor has access to the memory and determines a number of the company's proxies for which the financial intermediary has not received proxy voting instructions to assign to at least some of the plurality of lenders based on the number of company's shares for which the financial intermediary has not received voting instructions and based on the number of shares loaned by the lender.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for providing matching buyers and sellers of securities. The system and method of the present system provides auction services over a network. A list of designated counterparties is maintained by each of a plurality of lenders. Another list of designated counterparties is maintained by each of a plurality of borrowers. Another list of preferred characteristics (preferences) that a potential borrower would have is maintained by each of a plurality of lenders. Another list of preferred characteristics (preferences) that a potential lender would have is maintained by each of a plurality of borrowers. These lists can be updated daily or as frequently as desired. When securities are to loaned, a matching process accesses the appropriate list of designated counterparties to create a list of one or more suggested counterparty. The matching process also accesses the appropriate list of preferred characteristics.