A deal feed system for passing deal tickets to back office systems
comprises a deal feed contributor which receives tickets from trades on a
plurality of trading systems on a plurality of trading floors, a database
for storing the tickets, and a distributor for passing the tickets to
back office systems. Virtual deal codes are defined to which a plurality
of real deal codes map. The virtual deal codes to which a ticket relates
is stored in a table with a reference to the stored ticket. A deal code
table is updated with the range of the virtual deal code and the update
transmitted to the bank office systems and to traders.