Arrow - CREST Interface Solution

Arrow provides a real-time CREST solution suitable for any organisation with participant membership, including brokers, market makers, custodians and institutions. The software's proven functionality, reliability and stability demonstrate important attributes amongst a loyal, prestigious client base, most of whom have been clients for nearly a decade since CREST inauguration.

Arrow, which also includes vital stockbroking software features, is suitable for both high and low trading volume participants and its portability allows for use as a standalone application or as an integrated solution with an existing back office system. Arrow offers a variety of interface options. As standard, there is a business-level interface or a comprehensive Application Programmer Interface (API). The business-level interface can be readily modified to accommodate bespoke data formats or message queue technology.

The design emphasis is focused on achieving a high degree of straight through processing, interfacing to existing host systems and reducing the need for onward development. It ensures compliance with industry changes, supporting functionality and market initiatives including MiFID compliance.

ArrowSP, the latest evolution of 3i Infotech's CREST interface software will support the introduction of the Single Platform.

Arrow has a user interface that offers a highly configurable role-based environment. It has been designed specifically to be deployed simply to fit with organisations' current workflow and business processing needs. User-configurable alerts and authorisations can be tailored to client working practices. Background processing ensures host field compatibility and business rules validation maintaining compliance with CREST standards. This provides for a highly efficient back office function requiring minimal human intervention thus reducing operational and CREST processing costs.

Using industry standard HP-UX PA-RISC and Itanium UNIX platforms, Oracle RDBMS technology and an intuitive GUI, Arrow is able to provide a reliable, low maintenance CREST solution.