Counterparty risk management; automated financial and commodities markets trade execution services; risk mitigation services for financial and commodities instruments including securities, derivatives, futures, options and spot and forward transactions in markets such as currencies and physical commodities contracts; service of bringing together a plurality of parties, such as banks or investment firms, having holdings of such financial and commodities instruments, evaluating the risk profiles of such holdings and recommending a series of trades to reduce the risk exposure and/or notional outstanding amounts of the parties and facilitating the execution of such trades; automated evaluation of the risk profiles of a plurality of parties, such as banks or investment firms, having holdings of financial and commodities instruments including securities, derivatives, futures, options and spot and forward transactions in markets such as currencies and physical commodities contracts and automated provision of a recommendation of a series of trades to reduce the risk exposure of the parties and/or notional outstanding amounts and automated facilitation of the execution of such trades