Equilend Data & Insights gives hedge funds a real-time view of securities finance activity across $52T+ in lendable assets, $4.6T on loan, and 50+ global markets. Orbisa provides a daily estimate of short interest derived from live securities finance transactions. Price a borrow, read a crowded short, develop models, and manage squeeze risk earlier, with data delivered through the web, API, Excel, and Bloomberg.
Challenge 1
Daily short interest signal
Predicted Short Interest gives a daily estimate from live securities finance transactions. It tracks pre-trade, trade, and lifecycle activity, then filters out settlement and financing noise.
Trained on real activity
Built on 10+ years of data for equities and fixed income. The model reads live borrow activity to estimate how short a name is.
Closer to real-time
See a crowded name ahead of the two-week exchange lag. Public short interest is published twice a month; Predicted Short Interest updates daily.
Challenge 2
Premier data
Orbisa spans $52T+ in lendable assets and 50+ global markets. Coverage runs across 226,000+ unique securities and $4.6T on loan.
Benchmark before you trade
Check a financing rate and real availability ahead of placing a borrow. Orbisa curates this data from Equilend's trading platform, so the view comes from real market activity.
Updated throughout the day
Intraday loan quantity and cost-to-borrow as the market moves. Real-Time Data refreshes transaction detail within minutes of execution.
Challenge 3
Intraday market view
Orbisa Real-Time Data shows borrow demand and financing rates as the markets move. See real-time updates within minutes of execution.
Lifecycle events as they happen
Returns, recalls, and rerates tracked as they occur. Each event updates within minutes, so the position view stays current.
Retail-driven signal
Social media sentiment covering social mentions, squeeze mentions, and sentiment. See how the social media community is positioning based on activity.
Challenge 4
Daily squeeze signal
The Short Squeeze Score is a 0-to-100 metric updated every day. A score closer to 100 flags a higher probability of a squeeze.
Three inputs, one score
Price and volume anomalies, rising borrow costs, and social sentiment.
Early warning on crowding
Paired with Predicted Short Interest for an earlier read on squeeze risk. Together they show how crowded a name is and how exposed it is to a recall.
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Orbisa is Equilend's buy-side securities finance intelligence platform, built for portfolio managers, traders, risk teams, quant analysts, and more. The data spans across spans $52T+ in lendable assets and across 50+ global markets, covering Predicted Short Interest, borrow demand, financing rates, and short squeeze risk. Hedge funds leverage the data to validate supply and demand on a position, price a borrow, and see crowding publicly reported data catches up.
Daily signals built for the buy-side. Predicted Short Interest replaces the bimonthly publicly reported data with a daily estimate from live securities finance transactions, trained on 10+ years of data. The Short Squeeze Score is a 0-to-100 daily metric combining price and volume anomalies, borrow pressure, and social sentiment, so the desk gets an early read on squeeze risk.
$52T+
Lendable assets
$4.6T
On-loan
226,000+
Unique securities
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Publicly reported short interest is published twice a month with a two-week lag. Equilend Predicted Short Interest is built from live securities finance transactions, trained on 10+ years of data, and updated daily, so hedge funds can leverage the data in real-time.
Orbisa provides the buy-side view of Equilend’s premier securities finance data, covering $52T+ in lendable assets and $4.6T on loan across 50+ global markets. Hedge funds leverage the data for short interest, borrow demand, financing rates, and the Short Squeeze Score to ultimately enahnce their trading decisions.
The Equilend Short Squeeze Score is a daily 0-to-100 metric that combines price and volume anomalies, securities finance pressure such as rising borrow costs, and social sentiment. It gives the desk an early warning on crowded shorts before a squeeze moves the price.
Yes. Data is delivered through the web UI, API, flat file, an Excel add-in, and Bloomberg.
Yes. Hedge funds can benchmark financing rates and check real availability before placing a borrow, with intraday loan quantity, transaction count, and cost-to-borrow updated through the trading day across 50+ global markets.
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