EGAR Connect

EGAR Connect is the technology platform within one application providing bilateral data exchange between the information systems (IS) of the bidder by both the different exchanges and the trading systems, works as the multifunction gateway.

Adapters for connection with the Russian exchanges, an interaction interface under the FIX protocol and the adapter to the system of Bloomberg enter a standard delivery package of the gateway EGAR Connect.

The EGAR Connect platform allows to conduct effective development of the different operating rooms and analytical applications directed to automation of functions of participants of financial market on the basis. In particular, specialists of EGAR Technology develop the module for EGAR Market Maker for automation of operations of market makers on maintenance of securities liquidity on MICEX Moskovskoy marketplace of the Exchange.

Functional and technology features of the EGAR Connect platform

• The platform supports all main data types: requests, transactions and market data;
• Adding to use of new marketplaces happens without change of other elements of system architecture;
• Data from marketplaces can be transformed by a system to sets of different formats for convenience of their further use – routing, processing, transfer to other ICs;
• The platform completely maintains functionality of MICEX and RTS Moskovskoy marketplaces of the Exchange;
• At change of a data structure of the separate exchange or the trading system the new structure will be automatically supported by the gateway without the need for making changes in the bidder's IC;
• The commands transferred to the trading systems can be exposed to preprocessing;
• The gateway provides extremely high data exchange rate with marketplaces in both directions (the limit actually is defined by capacity of gateways on the party of marketplaces);
• Being implemented in the J2EE standard, the platform gives almost unlimited opportunities for integration into any ICs of financial institution;
• The gateway is hi-tech development and thanks to modular architecture and support of API allows to perform flexible configuration and expansion of functionality.

The EGAR Connect platform is integrated with other basic elements of the IT architecture developed by EGAR Technology within projects on automation of investment activities — a management system for requests, service of distribution of financial information, a trade platform of EGAR Focus, a control system of limits of EGAR Limits Manager and the system of Internet trading EGAR IVOnline.

A system executes conversion of entrance formats of data to the formats necessary at the exit for their unification and the subsequent use. The platform corresponds to all complex of the modern requirements for reliability and system availability shown by market participants to work of key finance applications and provides means of automatic monitoring and the notification in use. The solution is created on the platform with the open code, flexible and configured, is easily scaled and functionally is improved, including forces of IT specialists of the company user.

2015: EGAR Connect development stage is completed

On April 1, 2015 the EGAR Technology company announced end of the next stage of functional technology development of the EGAR Connect platform.

EGAR Connect is complemented with opportunities for more flexible, operational configuration of all packet of the integration adapters offered in basic delivery for:

• connections with marketplaces of the Moscow Exchange,
• connections with the systems of Reuters and Bloomberg,
• works through a universal interaction interface on the basis of the FIX protocol,
• connections to resources of the Central Bank of Russia, CBONDS, IVolatility DATA, National settlement depositary and SWIFT.

In addition to the specified interfaces in a product adapters to many back office and analytical applications distributed on the party Russian and international financial institutions are implemented. The architecture of service allows to use, as of April 1, 2015, any data transfer protocols and formats, to configure different routes of data and their conversion and to deadlines to develop new adapters.

Upgraded version of the integration platform allows to simplify installation process and maintenances considerably. In this version the kernel of the EGAR Connect system is completely separated from the connected modules and can be updated irrespective of them. The number of setup files is reduced, and the new console of the administrator which is not requiring separate installation is entered into the structure of service.

In a system there was a possibility of "hot" updating of its separate functional elements without restart of service that means not only updating of configuration files, but also software modules. Thanks to emergence of a non-release mode and simplification of API development process and debuggings of integration tasks on this platform considerably became simpler.

The general modules from basic delivery including adapters to marketplaces and information resources are already transferred to the new version of EGAR Connect. Transfer of all remained integration adapters including connected with features of their implementation on the party of certain customers will be gradually performed.