Asset managers come to Equilend to put idle inventory to work and lend on their own terms. From the decision to lend through to settlement, you work in one connected ecosystem built for securities finance.
Challenge 1
Short interest arrives too late
Short interest reporting is often incomplete and arrives with a lag, meaning the market may have already moved by the time you receive it. That makes it harder to identify changing sentiment and position with confidence.
Demand and rates stay hidden
Borrow demand and financing rates are hard to see across your book in real time. Without a live view, you cannot tell which holdings are heating up or what they should earn.
The edge is gone by then
By the time the data lands, the risk is already priced in and the opportunity has passed. Decisions get made on lagging signals instead of current ones.
Challenge 2
Inventory sits unused
Less of your book gets lent, so assets that could earn stay idle. Utilization stays low even when demand exists elsewhere in the market.
Fewer counterparties, lower returns
A narrow distribution network means thinner demand and returns left on the table. Real competition for your inventory never develops.
Challenge 3
Onboarding drags on for months
Bringing a new beneficial owner to market typically takes at least 3 months and often much longer. Funds wait while paperwork and approvals crawl through manual steps.
Idle assets, no revenue
Inventory sits idle and funds don’t earn any revenue as they wait for borrower credit reviews and approvals.
Countless unapproved funds
Many funds remain unapproved by borrowers for years, unprioritized despite containing potentially valuable assets that are in demand.
Challenge 4
Separate records drift apart
Every counterparty keeps its own version of the same trade, and the records rarely match. There is no single source of truth across the lifecycle.
Breaks, fails, and disputes follow
When records diverge, you get reconciliation breaks, settlement fails, and rate disputes. Each one has to be found and fixed manually.
Time and P&L leak
The industry spends hundreds of millions a year cleaning up the mismatches. The cost shows up in both operations time and lost P&L.
Our solutions work together to serve asset managers across Trading, Workflow Automation, Data & Insights, and Digital, covering direct lending, onboarding, post-trade operations, market data, reconciliation, and more.
NGT plugs your funds into the largest electronic securities finance market. 145+ firms trade on it each day. Over $245 billion in notional moves through it daily, across 50+ markets, 24/5. More inventory works harder, and execution gets sharper across your book.
Equilend's Workflow Automation solutions support onboarding, post-trade, and regulatory operations across your lending program. Onboard+ cuts the roughly 90-day onboarding average, so new funds reach the market sooner. Post-trade tools handle returns, recalls, settlement monitoring, and SSIs to reduce breaks, and fails. For reporting, the regulatory suite covers SFTR and 10c-1a. So you get less idle inventory, fewer fails, and less manual work.
Equilend's Data & Insights shows the buy-side what the securities lending market is doing right now. The coverage is deep: $52T+ in lendable assets across 50+ markets, users can benchmark performance, monitor borrow demand and financing rates, identify market trends, and access the data through the UI, API, Bloomberg, or Excel Add-In.
Equilend's Digital solutions remove the structural cause of reconciliation breaks. 1Source is a shared digital ledger, built on distributed ledger technology and running on the Canton Network. Every counterparty works from the same record, so breaks are prevented at the source. For your program, that means cleaner settlement and less drag as volumes grow.
$52T+
Lendable assets
226,000+
Unique securities
$4.6T
In on-loan balances across 50+ global markets
EquiLend’s Head of Trading Solutions, Mike Norwood, shares his July securities finance market review, highlighting record platform activity, strong fixed income growth, and sustained global demand for hard-to-borrow securities.
Six months ago, we wrote about how AI-linked equities had redefined the securities lending landscape in 2025, a year shaped by speculative positioning, breakout IPOs, and the kind of volatility that provides opportunity for the market.
The global securities lending industry just wrapped up its strongest first half on record.
See how Equilend can improve returns, data, and onboarding for your funds with a personalized demo.
Yes. Plenty of asset managers run a direct program through Equilend while maintaining an agent-lender relationship. You choose what to lend directly and what to leave with your agent. There is no all-or-nothing switch. Direct access simply gives you another route to demand when it suits the fund.
Equities and fixed income across the global markets. Lending is not limited to traditional stock loan. You can also trade repo from the same place.
Equilend can connect to your order management and books-and-records systems. Connectivity options range from a browser UI to full automation through messaging or API, so you can start light and scale up. Market data also flows into Bloomberg. Most teams begin with one workflow and add others over time.
Equilend's Data & Insights solutions give asset managers access to independent securities finance data covering lending activity, borrow costs, utilization, availability, and short interest across global markets. This allows firms to compare their lending performance with broader market trends, identify opportunities to improve returns, and make more informed lending and investment decisions using transparent market intelligence.
Stay ahead in securities finance with expert insights, market trends, and timely updates.
