SAFE FINANCIALS

WELCOME TO THE HOME OF THE CREST SIMULATOR

COST EFFECTIVE, ON DEMAND TESTING SERVICE FOR YOUR BACK OFFICE SYSTEMS

The CREST Simulator reduces the costs associated with testing and developing new systems by providing you with an on demand service to test your back office systems as if you are connected to CREST. Once connected to the Simulator, no booking of trialling slots is required; the Simulator provides consistent daily access. It provides 100% DEX compatibility for all supported message versions. It offers full transaction, reconciliation and file change processing. Transactions can be auto matched by the simulator or matched by conventional dual party input.

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100% DEX COMPATABILITY

For all supported message versions

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CONNECT VIA THE INTERNET

Secure transmissions via FTP or SSH SFTP and new for 2020 IBM MQ Support!

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SimGUI

Online web portal to manage your test data, giving you more control and greater visibility of results

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DEDICATED SUPPORT TEAM

Provide excellent CREST knowledge and promptly respond to all email and phone queries, saving time for your testing team

HOW DOES IT WORKS

The service is operated and maintained by Safe Financials Limited and deployed over the internet, using the secure SFTP file transfer protocol. Connectivity information can be found here

You can manage your own test data using our internet enquiry tool, the SimGUI.

New versions of DEX messages are implemented ahead of CREST which allows you to test your upgraded systems prior to CREST trialling. When training environments are linked to the CREST Simulator, the realism is instantly improved.

Simulator environments can be reset to allow trainers to use the same example pack numerous times.

The system is operational, on business days, from 05:30 to 20:30.

CLIENT SUPPORT SERVICES

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BROKERS

Discover how the simulator can reduce development risk and add realism to your user training

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SOFTWARE HOUSE

Development and testing services without Euroclear connectivity and a huge resource of technical know how

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FUND MANAGERS

The simulator provides full end to end life cycle testing of Fund Settlements in CREST

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REGISTRARS

Full Registrar processing allowing you to take control of your securites and receive and deliver all the necessary DEX messages

NEWS

August 2019

This issue: NEW FT DEX VERSION 25.1STATISTICS NEW FT DEX VERSION 25.1Further to our June Newsletter regarding the new DEX changes announced by Euroclear to go live on Monday 18th November, we can now confirm that these File Transfer changes will be...

June 2019

This issue: NEW FT DEX VERSION 25.1 STATISTICS NEW FT DEX VERSION 25.1 Euroclear have issued details of new CREST enhancements which will go live on Monday 18th November 2019. The core functionality related to this software release will be delivered in...

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

”The Crest Simulator has provided an excellent testing platform which has greatly improved our testing and enabled us to provide a much better service to our users”

Societe Generale

“I believe our testing has improved since we began using the simulator. I can think of several occasions where we’ve picked up potentially major flaws prior to putting changes live.”

Investec

“We have found the responses both from the simulator and from the helpdesk/support team more than acceptable which has helped reduce project timescales and also improve our testing and other activities.”

Broadridge

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Safe Financials Ltd

1st Floor Waverley Court
Wiltell Road
Lichfield
WS14 9ET

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enquiries@sfl.co.uk

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