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
Exchange short interest publishes twice a month and is already days old when you get it. You end up positioning on a picture of the market that has already moved on.
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.
Live securities finance data that shows where your book can earn more.
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Inventory sits unused
Less of your book gets lent, so assets that could earn stay idle. Utilisation 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.
Lend directly, to more counterparties, on your own terms.
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Onboarding drags for months
Bringing a new beneficial owner to market takes roughly 90 days. Funds wait while paperwork and approvals crawl through manual steps.
Manual work everywhere
Returns, recalls, settlements, and reporting still run on manual processes. Staff spend their days keying and chasing instead of managing the programme.
Idle assets, growing breaks
Inventory sits idle while breaks pile up across the programme. Every delay ties up assets that could be earning a return.
New funds to market sooner, with less manual work along the way.
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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.
One shared record, so breaks are prevented rather than repaired.
Request a demoOur 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 programme. 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: $51 trillion in lendable assets and $4.6 trillion in on-loan balances across 50+ markets. Orbisa delivers daily Predicted Short Interest, Short Squeeze Scores, intraday borrow demand, financing rates and more. The data is accessible through the UI, API, Bloomberg, or Excel add-in. With Equilend market data, you can benchmark your programme against peers and see borrow demand across your holdings.
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 programme, that means cleaner settlement and less drag as volumes grow.
$51 trillion
In lendable assets
223,000+
Unique securities covered across 50+ global markets
JULY 2026
10,000+
Predicted Short Interest updates, vs a 10-business-day lag on exchange-reported data
"Equilend has helped us streamline our securities lending operations, improve efficiency across the trade lifecycle, and scale our program with greater confidence."
"Equilend has helped us streamline our securities lending operations, improve efficiency across the trade lifecycle, and scale our program with greater confidence."
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See how Equilend can improve returns, data, and onboarding for your funds with a personalised demo.
Yes. Plenty of asset managers run a direct programme 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.
Start with a demo scoped to your funds. The team looks at what you hold, how you lend today, and where returns or operational time are leaking. From there you pick the entry point that fits, whether that is market data, direct lending, faster onboarding, or cleaner post-trade. Onboarding is staged, so you see value from the first workflow before expanding.
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