Products: Middleware and Systems-Integration for Financial Services

Our solutions are modular and consist of products categorized as “Core,” “Deal Readers”, “Rate Feeders,” “Managers,” and “Utilities”:

Core products provide the processing logic, including protocol translation, transport conversion, and the application of business logic such as liquidity tracking or complex client-specific logic to fit into existing internal processes;

Deal Readers consume trade data from the source systems, e.g. Reuters or Bloomberg and make them available to the Core product in a generic format;

Rate Feeders consume news feeds from the source system and make the data, e.g. corporate actions, available to the Core product;

The Manager handles tasks such as alerts, logging, user management, archiving and others;

Our Utilities offer post-trade services. Based on a sophisticated scripting system,s it offers diverse services such as printing, risk-management, calendaring of events, or other tasks required by our clients’ workflows;
Our ‘legacy’ products help clients to (a) migrate off a solution that is using a deprecated data format or protocol or (b) to continue using that legacy solution by matching those old formats to a modern API.

We support all Linux and Unix flavors, all Windows systems, all MacOS versions and iOS.

Core

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Genesis FX

Genesis FX DONE

Connects Reuters D3000 or ICAP ASI to any Front or Back Office system that is capable of accepting deal input in any form (even HLLAPI if necessary). We currently support direct database load, direct network "socket", flat-file, serial-line, MQ and HLLAPI. We can add (and have added) many customized proprietary APIs as banks have requested them. Genesis FX has been sucessfully connected to 3rd-party TOF and ASI server mimics including Dene, DDN, and Softek's Genesis Mimic.

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Genesis Deal Processor

Genesis Deal Processor DONE

Reads deals from normalized daily trade data file that can be fed from multiple deal sources. Typically used for regression testing or for seamless migration to a new system. Also used to disseminate data to multiple downstream systems. Genesis Deal Processor can also connect to MQ for further flexibility. Improves speed of downstream processing.

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Regression testing, data fan-out for efficiency or different uses by downstream targets, System Migration

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Genesis Deal Driver

High Efficiency Deal Distribution. Applies multiple transformations to datasets so that they can be consumed by downstream systems. Clients are using it in certain scenarios to augment existing backoffice systems and to enhance the functionality of those systems. Processing includes creation of internal contra deals, transfer of liquidity to different books as required by local laws.

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Transformation of datasets to comply with standards of consuming systems.

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Genesis Deal Splitter

All the Genesis FX client interfaces above contribute data to softek's internal deal store. This deal store is indexed in real time and is used to drive other Genesis products. The deal store feeds Mimics and Deal Processors and is the basis for our Deal Splitter functionality.

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Genesis Mimic

Genesis Mimic DONE

Takes any inbound feeds and acts as server for distribution to any number of internal systems, thus allowing clients to connect to deals without modification to their own systems. This is transparent from the perspective of the downstream systems which appear to be directly connected to the original data source.

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Feed legacy downstream systems as if they were directly connected to the orginal feed. Any-to-any protocol conversion.

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Genesis IP-Merge

Deals sent through TCP-IP from several deal servers protocols (, Reuters Select Feed Plus may be merged into one output stream. Since their output format is the same as their input format, ipmerge processes may be hierarchicalized for network load balancing.

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TOF, Reuters 3000, ICAP ASI, ICAP TOF, SMBS, KMBC, FIX

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Genesis MQ Get

Reads records from an MQ Queue. Decoded as deals, these records are delivered to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this MQ record reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading.

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Deal Readers

Product

Function

Asset Class

Provider

Protocol

Use Case

Documentation

Genesis TOF

Reuters 2000/3000 Reader

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Genesis FOL

Those customers which elect to have softek provide them with an intranet-based deal stream, may also elect to have softek provide them with a deal decoder that directly loads deals from this deal stream into their Front or Back Office System. This intranet client has the added bonus of helping to solve any remaining firewall issues, since the protocol is client-server based with the customer side being the client and initiating the connection. A provision is also included to load test deals directly from a local text file.

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Genesis Bloomberg

A Bloomberg TCP-IP FX deal reader is available. The reader opens a port to an authorised Bloomberg FX deal server and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution directly to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. Supported deal loading mechanisms include (but are not limited to) TOF (using Genesis Mimic), Direct Database Table Load (SQL/ODBC/OCI etc.), HLLAPI, Flat File, Structured File, MQ, MFRPC, FIX, TCP-IP socket. Of the many available Front/Back Office deal loading mechanisms, the integration of a Reuters TOF output to the Bloomberg protocol is accomplished using softek's Genesis Mimic product. The Mimic is connected to a Bank's Front or Back Office system using an RS232 serial cable that conforms to the Reuters specification.

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Genesis TOF TCO-IP

A TOF-over-IP deal reader is available. The reader opens a TCP-IP port on an EBS or Reuters deal server, conforms to the full Reuters TOF packet specification and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this TOF reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading.

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Genesis TOF MQ

A TOF-over-MQ deal reader is available. The reader opens an MQ connection port to a DDN deal server, conforms to the full Reuters TOF packet specification minus the ACK/NACK layer and Packet Headers and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this TOF reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading.

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Genesis Hotspot

A Hotspot deal reader client application that reads and acknowledges properly formatted deals from a Hotspot MQ server, processing and responding to heartbeat records as defined by the Hotspot's MQ specification. Deals are delivered to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this Hotspot deal reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading.

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Genesis KMBC (Full Korean KMBC Packet Spec)

A TCP-IP deal reader is available. The reader opens a TCP-IP connection to a Korean KMBC deal server, conforms to the full KMBC packet specification and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this deal reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading. A heartbeat is implemented to ensure continuous connectivity.

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Genesis SMBS (Full Korean SMBS Packet Spec)

A TCP-IP deal reader is available. The reader opens a TCP-IP connection to a Korean SMBS deal server, conforms to the full SMBS packet specification and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this deal reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading. A heartbeat is implemented to ensure continuous connectivity.

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Rate Feeders

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Asset Class

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Protocol

Use Case

Documentation

Genesis COG

Customer programable COG interface (Reuters only) is also available. The COG interface responds to all Reuters information-update notifications and connects to our Front/Back office information loading subsystem (see below).

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Genesis SFP

Reuters Select Feed Plus is handled by this product which connects via a separate NIC to a Reuters Select Feed Plus server or (using SSL) to a Triarch data server. Real time record gathering is supported, along with multiple simultaneous TCP-IP based feeds. Arrival of a message record from the feed triggers script execution which allows for post-processing of Reuters messages (including field transformation and i/o redirection).

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Managers

Product

Function

Asset Class

Provider

Protocol

Use Case

Documentation

Genesis Deal View

Genesis DEALVU allows deals from the Reuters Dealing 2000 system and EBS Dealing Resources deal matching system to be captured, stored, viewed, printed, archived, and generally managed.

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Genesis Deal Rate

This manages a pool of deal orders, presenting them to traders who pick the trades they want to fill. The product imports deals from a drop point where have been placed from, say, an internet-based trade order entry system. The deals are presented in a time-ordered list to all the traders in a pool for a deal-rate to be provided. Locking is implemented so only one trader may provide a rate for any one deal (the deal being allocated to the trader who selects a deal from the pool). The trader may provide a rate for the deal or may return the deal to the pool for another trader to pick up. Provision is made for a minimum and maximum rate (usually provided by the system placing deals in the deal-pool); the trader is allowed to override the subsequent "trade-rate not within range" warning. Provision is also made for "end of day" reconciliation reports detailing which traders filled which deals, when, and at what rate.

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Genesis Critical Message Handler

All the above products integrate with softek's Critical Message Handler (CMH). The CMH processes alert message and redirects them through bank notification systems. The CMH processes 3 categories of messages (1) informational, (2) important, and (3) vital. Messages of type (1) are sent to a logfile. Messages of type (2) are sent to logfile and a notification command (say email). Messages of type (3) are processed similarly to type (2) except that they are also sent to another notification command (say a pager). Category of message is determined by bank-editable tables of softek's error numbers. Notification commands are controlled by program arguments or environment variables. A companion application std2arg is available which provides abbreviated (error numbers only) information on the argument list to an environment-specified command. Std2arg may be used in place of, or as a message delivery application for, Genesis CMH.

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Utilities

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Asset Class

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Protocol

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Genesis Printer

Connect your Reuters conversation printer or EBS ticket printer, through a hardware splitter (if printed output is still required), to an interface machine's serial port (via a protocol converter). Deals and reports are automatically diverted to different files. Deal conversations (Reuters only) or printed, matched deal output (Reuters or EBS), may be automatically loaded into Front office or Back office systems through our scripting system. Printed output may be redirected to any printer on the connected intranet.

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Genesis Testbed, Genesis EMU

Using a combination of our Front/Back Office Interfaces (to store actual deals to our internal dealstore), our Server Mimic, some automated date/currency transformations and an optional Splitter, real "Year-2000" and/or EMU deals that are based on actual trades may be fed in real-time to Front-Office and/or Back-Office test systems to verify Year-2000 and/or EMU compliance.

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Genesis Script

All the above products (except the mimics (product 3), which don't have a deal-loading function) process information through our "information scripting system" which is a user-modifiable language system (looks like a simple autoexec.bat script, or a BASIC program with labels substituted for line numbers). The scripting system's job is to allow data fields to be selected, transformed (if necessary), collected into a record format and then sent down any number of available communication paths or bank APIs. The scripting system can read feedback messages from downstream processing and act accordingly.

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Legacy Products

Product

Function

Asset Class

Provider

Protocol

Use Case

Documentation

Genesis ASI

EBS ASI Reader

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EBS

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Genesis ASI TCP-IP

An EBS ASI-over-IP deal reader is available. The reader opens a TCP-IP port on an EBS deal server, conforms to the full EBS ASI packet specification, and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. In particular, this ASI reader is easily integrated into Softek's DealDrop mechanism for high-throughput deal loading.

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Genesis SI

A Cognotec TCP-IP SI reader is available. The reader opens a port to an authorised Cognotec SI server and delivers deals to the Softek script system for distribution directly to any of the bank's deal loading mechanisms. Supported deal loading mechanisms include (but are not limited to) TOF (using Genesis Mimic), Direct Database Table Load (SQL/ODBC/OCI etc.), HLLAPI, Flat File, Structured File, MQ, MFRPC, FIX, TCP-IP socket. The integration of a Reuters TOF output to the SI protocol is accomplished using softek's Genesis Mimic product. There were several assumptions that had to be made to fit SI features into the TOF-like record structure. These are detailed in this discussion document. The Mimic is connected to a Bank's Front or Back Office system using an RS232 serial cable that conforms to the Reuters specification.

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Genesis MRM

Reads XML records in real-time from Cognotec's MRM Trader/Currency-Pair queue, decodes the records and stores them in a structured cache. Ten trader transitions per currency pair are stored together with their activation timestamps in GMT. When a new trade arrives the then active trader is associated with the new trade so the deal may be loaded into the correct "book".

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