Wealth managers hold large pools of client assets that earn nothing in custody. Equilend connects you straight to the securities finance market, so you lend that inventory directly and capture the yield it can generate. You set the rates, pick the counterparties, and keep control of every position on one platform.
Challenge 1
Assets sitting idle in custody
Large pools of client securities earn nothing while they wait in custody. That idle inventory drags on the returns your clients expect from you.
One agent, one set of rates
Lending through a single agent leaves you little say over rates or counterparties. You take the level you are given and rarely see how it compares to the wider market.
Return left on the table
Demand for your inventory exists across the market, but you rarely reach it. Every position you cannot place is yield your clients never collect.
Challenge 2
Their execution sets your return
When all lending runs through one agent, their rates and decisions drive your performance. You depend on their priorities rather than your own.
Hidden spreads, lost basis points
Performance leaks through spreads you cannot see. Without market-level visibility, you cannot tell a fair rate from a poor one.
Scaling means more headcount
Doing more lending yourself adds operational load you cannot easily absorb. More trade means more lifecycle events, more reconciliation, and more people to manage them.
Challenge 3
Accountable to everyone
You answer to clients, boards, and regulators for how every asset is lent. Each loan and counterparty has to stand up to scrutiny at any time.
Oversight you cannot evidence
Manual processes and opaque agent reporting make it hard to prove what happened. When questions come, you are piecing the story together after the fact.
Risk hiding in the records
Incomplete records of positions and counterparties create exposure you cannot see. A gap you miss today becomes a problem you cannot explain later.
Challenge 4
No independent benchmark
Without independent market data, it's difficult to know whether your agent lender is achieving competitive rates and returns or whether revenue is being left on the table.
Performance you can't measure
Without visibility into market rates, utilization, and demand, you can't compare your lending program against the broader market or understand where improvements can be made.
Oversight without transparency
Boards, clients, and investment committees expect confidence that your securities lending program is performing. Without independent market intelligence, it's harder to evaluate results and hold service providers accountable.
Equilend helps wealth managers unlock the value of client assets through connected trading, workflow automation, market intelligence, and trusted digital infrastructure. Explore the four solution areas that support more efficient securities lending and greater control across the lending lifecycle.
Equilend's Workflow Automation solutions help wealth managers simplify and scale securities lending operations. From Fully Paid Lending and Front Office Automation to Spire and Post-Trade & Regulatory reporting, firms can automate key workflows, reduce operational complexity, and efficiently manage lending programs while maintaining oversight and control.
Equilend's Trading solutions connect wealth managers with institutional borrowing demand through the industry's leading securities finance marketplace. Powered by NGT and ECS, firms can efficiently lend inventory, access deep market liquidity, and execute trades through connected, automated workflows.
Equilend provides wealth managers with securities finance market data across $52T+ in lendable assets, 50+ markets, and 226,000+ unique securities, so you benchmark your lending returns against the market rather than against a guess. The data shows you where your inventory is in demand and what rates it should command, so you and your oversight teams can hold agents and counterparties to market levels. It is available through a web UI, API, flat file, Excel, and Bloomberg.
Equilend's Digital solution helps modernize securities finance through trusted, connected infrastructure. Powered by 1Source, firms can improve transparency, synchronize trade lifecycle data across counterparties, and reduce reconciliation effort through a shared digital ecosystem.
Powering the global securities lending market
$52T+
Lendable assets
$4.6T
On-loan
226,000+
Unique securities
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 helps wealth managers lend client assets for incremental yield while keeping control of every position, in a demo built around your business.
Equilend helps wealth managers unlock the value of client portfolios through Fully Paid Lending (FPL), connect to the world's largest securities lending marketplace with NGT, and make more informed lending and portfolio decisions with market-leading Data & Insights. Whether you're launching an FPL program, participating through partnering with an agent, or optimizing an existing securities lending business, Equilend provides the technology, automation, trading connectivity, and market intelligence to maximize revenue, streamline operations, and scale with confidence.
Equilend helps wealth managers improve fund performance by turning eligible client assets into a source of incremental revenue through Fully Paid Lending, connecting them to institutional borrowing demand through NGT, and providing market-leading Data & Insights to optimize lending opportunities, pricing, and performance. Combined with automated workflows, Equilend enables firms to grow securities lending revenue efficiently while maintaining a seamless client experience.
Lending on Equilend means trading on a regulated venue with a full audit trail. Restriction lists enforce your eligibility rules automatically, advanced trade matching keeps records accurate, and Equilend captures all lifecycle events pre and post-trade in one solution. Every lending decision is documented, giving you and your oversight teams the evidence clients and regulators expect.
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