Equilend applies the lifecycle management, real-time data, and settlement discipline of traditional securities finance to digital assets. Our shared-ledger technology keeps trade lifecycle data in sync across counterparties and runs on the Canton Network. See how institutional securities finance infrastructure supports your digital asset business.
Challenge 1
No standard for lifecycle events
Digital asset desks manage rerates, recalls, and returns through spreadsheets and bilateral messages rather than standardized workflows.
Scale is constrained by manual handling
As transaction volumes grow, manual lifecycle management becomes a direct limit on operational capacity.
Institutional discipline is available
Equilend applies the lifecycle standards of traditional securities finance to digital asset workflows.
Challenge 2
Breaks are structural, not incidental
Each counterparty keeps its own record of the same trade. Mismatches are inevitable when the source data is separate.
The cost is measurable
The securities finance industry spends an estimated $42 million a year on labor alone to resolve reconciliation breaks.
A shared ledger removes the problem
1Source keeps trade lifecycle data in sync across counterparties, preventing breaks rather than resolving them after the fact.
Challenge 3
Exposure is fragmented across custodians
Digital asset collateral sits across multiple custodians and venues, making consolidated risk visibility difficult to achieve.
Rehypothecation adds hidden risk
Haircut exposure and rehypothecation are difficult to monitor without dedicated infrastructure, leaving gaps in counterparty risk management.
Traditional controls can apply here
Equilend's digital roadmap brings the credit limits and collateral management discipline of traditional securities finance to digital assets.
Challenge 4
Separate systems limit the full picture
Digital and traditional desks run on different infrastructure, creating blind spots in inventory and exposure across the book.
Moving inventory is harder than it should be
Without a shared view, allocating assets across traditional and digital venues requires manual coordination.
One platform is the goal
Equilend is building toward common workflows for both asset types, connected through 1Source and the Canton Network.
Equilend’s Digital solution is advancing securities finance modernization, with 1Source, the industry’s first shared contract ledger for securities lending, digital asset lending infrastructure on the Canton Network, and new possibilities for tokenized collateral mobility.
Equilend's digital vertical connects traditional and digital securities finance through distributed-ledger technology. 1Source gives all counterparties one shared record of the trade lifecycle, running on the Canton Network. This is where Equilend's long-term vision for digital asset securities finance takes shape.
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See how Equilend's securities finance infrastructure supports digital asset lifecycle management in a personalized demo.
Equilend brings the infrastructure and discipline of traditional securities finance to digital assets. 1Source, our distributed-ledger single source of truth, keeps trade lifecycle data in sync across counterparties and runs on the Canton Network.
1Source is a distributed-ledger (DLT) single source of truth for securities finance. It gives borrowers and lenders the same trade lifecycle data in real-time, covering affirmation, recording, notification, and reference data. Because all parties work from one shared ledger, the lifecycle mismatches that cause reconciliation breaks are removed at their source.
Reconciliation breaks happen because counterparties maintain separate records of the same trade. 1Source replaces those separate records with a shared ledger, keeping trade data in sync and helping prevent breaks before they occur. This reduces manual reconciliation, technology overhead, settlement fails, and rate discrepancies.
The Canton Network is a distributed ledger built for institutional digital settlement. 1Source runs on it, which gives Equilend clients a path to faster settlement cycles, higher transaction volumes, and digital asset workflows on the same infrastructure they use for traditional securities finance.
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