Transforming Market Reference
Data Management

Introducing Epiphron DRTx™

Epiphron DRTx™ is a state-of-the-art ETL (extract, transform, and load) software platform, purpose-built to meet the security reference data needs of buy-side investment systems. Designed with extensibility, scalability, and configurability in mind, Epiphron DRTx™ provides asset managers of all sizes with advanced data transformation capabilities comparable to those of much larger vendor systems.

Eagerly anticipating the onboarding of more 3rd party data providers/consumers as client demand requires

Use Cases

Rapid Portfolio Onboarding

Operational efficiency drives down risk.

Portfolio Rebalancing

Benchmarked changes strain investment efficiency.

Currency Futures

Preparing in advance smoothes the transition.

Relentless Maturity

Constant change requires front office automation.

Enhanced Option Rolls

Tight Bloomberg integration simplifies complexities

Bulk Data Refresh

Refreshed data is accurate data.

Currency Optimization

Trading complexity drives custom integration.

Automated Compliance

A refresh a day keeps the regulators at bay.

Rapid Portfolio Onboarding

Operational efficiency drives down risk.

Portfolio Rebalancing

Benchmarked changes strain investment efficiency.

Currency Futures

Preparing in advance smoothes the transition.

Relentless Maturity

Constant change requires front office automation.

Enhanced Option Rolls

Tight Bloomberg integration simplifies complexities

Bulk Data Refresh

Refreshed data is accurate data.

Currency Optimization

Trading complexity drives custom integration.

Automated Compliance

A refresh a day keeps the regulators at bay.

Featured Case Studies

Rapid Portfolio Onboarding

A  large mutual fund company based in Boston, with a significant institutional book of business,  routinely onboards one or more new portolios per month. While an equity-only portfolio generally requires a dozen or so new security setups, fixed income portfolios or those with a large number of options and futures can require 500+. The Epiphron DRTx™  platform is  pointed to a file/spreadsheet which lists all of the required securities and quickly determine those that are not currently set up in their OMS and accounting system. These missing securities are then requested, returned, translated and imported into the client’s OMS and are “tradeable” in a matter of minutes.

Automated Security Master Creation

A San Diego-based boutique small/mid-cap global asset manager performs a monthly rebalance operation upstream of their OMS. Given the size of the indices that benchmark their portfolios, rebalance operations routinely generate orders for 100+ securities that do not yet exist in their OMS. An API-based integration between Epiphron DRTx™ and the client’s custom modeling system allows for seamless automated security master creation prior to the import of the required rebalance orders.

Currency Futures Automation

A Vancouver-based asset manager utilizes currency futures heavily for portfolio protection. The client requires that both their OMS and accounting system always have the next 4 series available on a go forward basis so they can perform high volume close/role operations in a seamless manner. On a nightly basis, EpiphronDRTx™ automatically analyzes their current holdings and determines a list of currency future’s root tickers, algorithmically determines the tickers for the next four expirations, determines if they're in the OMS or not and then requests/sets up any that are missing.

Unsolicited Execution Integration

To service their collection of short, intermediate and long-term portfolios, a large Charlotte-base fixed income asset manager routinely requires 500+ new security setups per month.  The overwhelming number of the setup requests are the result of an unsolicited execution workflow from one or more of their Fixed Income EMS’ . Epiphron DRTx™  listens to the OMS' unsolicted executions queue and automatically detects when a new security setup is required.

Options Roll Automation

A  New York based hedge fund has a heavy emphasis on utilizing options in various trading stratgies. Requirements for option rolls are generated daily and communicated to the trading desk. Traders are able to locate each option on their Bloomberg terminal and drag/drop a list of OCC symbols into Epiphron DRTx™.   These securities are then simultaneously set up in both their OMS and 3rd party compliance system database in less than 90 seconds.

High-Frequency Security Refresh

A Chicago-based, traditional long-only mutual fund has an algorithmically determined (factors such as 'currently held', 'recently traded' , 'underlies any instrument' , 'belongs to index abc') list of approximately 15,000 securities that must be refreshed 3x daily in multiple internal investment systems. Epiphron DRTx™ is able to accept the list of securities and automatically perform the full request, translation and import of 600+ combined data fields across various systems in less than 2 minutes of compute time.

Currency Pair Optimization

A boutique asset manager located in Philadelphia utilizes a multi-factor optimizer to determine how each account should cover various cash requirements. This often results in dozens or even hundreds of currency pair combinations that the OMS is either unaware of or contains data that is unacceptably stale. The client engaged Visus to integrate the Epiphron DRTx™ API into their currency optimizer so that the optmizer could automatically initiate both new set up and refreshing of stale curenncy pair data.

Compliance Automation

A New york based client is heavily active in Hong Kong; both long and short. In order to maintain exchange compliance, their OMS compliance engine has been provided by the HK Stock Exchange a list of HK securities that are eligibile for short selling.  Each evening, the client uses Epiphron DRTx™ to query the HKSE website for the current list of “shortable” securities, evaluate if there are any missing in their OMS, and then automatically set up the missing securities.

Visus Consulting

Powering Asset Management with Tailored OMS Solutions

Since 2002, Visus Consulting has been the go-to partner for asset managers seeking robust and finely tuned Order Management Systems (OMS). Our commitment to excellence has led us to deliver numerous implementation, consulting, and bespoke software solutions, catering to clients with assets under management ranging from sub $1 billion to over $1 trillion.

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