Retail brokers trade in a market that runs while you sleep. Equilend connects you to the largest pool of securities finance liquidity, with the booking accuracy your regulators expect and the automation to scale without adding headcount. Source hard-to-borrow names, put idle inventory to work, and settle clean, all on one platform.
Challenge 1
Reach the deepest borrow liquidity
NGT connects you to the largest pool of securities finance supply, covering both general collateral and hard-to-borrow names.
Find supply before it runs out
NGT carries a large percentage of daily securities finance transactions, so the names you need are more likely to be there.
Automate sourcing and rate negotiation
SmartBorrow detects short positions, sources inventory, negotiates rates, and books the trade automatically, so your desk covers more positions at better rates without adding people.
Covering short positions in hard-to-borrow names without overpaying
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Put your supply in front of the market
Your fully paid and margin inventory is only valuable if borrowers can find it. Equilend connects your inventory to the market across all trade types and fee bands, increasing visibility, utilization, and revenue opportunities.
Auto-fill borrow requests automatically
AutoLend reads incoming requests in any format, applies your rules, and auto-fills, counters, or escalates each one, executing about 95% of flow without manual touch.
Keep availability live and accurate
Push Lists send current availability to the right counterparties on your schedule, so your inventory stays in demand.
Turning idle client inventory into revenue
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Centralize every locate request
Equilend Locates brings requests from file, API, MQ, email, and manual entry into one workflow, checks real-time availability, prices each request, and reaches near 100% straight-through processing.
Keep audit-ready evidence
Every locate decision is captured as a point-in-time record, giving you the proof a regulator expects.
Book clean for reporting
NGT books trades accurately and straight-through, keeping your trade data clean for SFTR and CSDR reporting.
Meeting short-sale and trade-reporting rules without slowing the desk
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Catch breaks before they fail
Settlement Monitor compares mandatory settlement fields at the point of trade and across the lifecycle, then flags the riskiest trades with indicative penalty costs.
Resolve faster under T+1
With up to 83% less time to fix breaks and an average aged fail costing about €14,700, zero-touch resolution keeps your desk ahead.
Stop bad data at the source
The Enhanced SSI Repository validates and distributes settlement instructions, preventing the incorrect data that causes roughly 30% of fails.
Reducing failed settlements as the market moves to T+1
Request a DemoConnected solution areas for retail brokers: Trading, Workflow Automation, and Data & Insights, helping you source liquidity, automate operations, gain market intelligence, and modernize securities finance infrastructure.
Fully Paid Lending enables retail brokers to aggregate fully paid client assets, connect inventory to global borrow demand, and automate the entire securities lending lifecycle, helping generate new revenue while reducing operational complexity.
NGT is Equilend's central securities finance trading platform, used by 135+ firms daily. Retail brokers trade general collateral and hard-to-borrow names across all fee bands.
SmartBorrow detects short positions, sources inventory, negotiates rates, and books borrows automatically. Locates centralizes every request, reaching near 100% straight-through processing with point-in-time records.
Post-trade solutions help retail brokers automate recalls, returns, settlement, and reconciliation workflows, reducing manual effort, operational risk, and failed trades while supporting T+1 readiness.
Equilend data covers $51 trillion in lendable assets and $4.6 trillion in on-loan assets across 50+ markets. Data offerings are available for both buy and sell-side market participants.
Powering the global securities lending market
$200B
Average daily notional traded on NGT
DEC 2025
135+
Firms trading on NGT globally each day
30+
Markets that NGT is active in
"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 helps retail brokers cover shorts, lend idle inventory, stay compliant, and settle on time, in a demo built around your desk.
Equilend gives retail brokers one platform for securities finance covering the entire trade lifecycle: Fully Paid Lending, trading on NGT, Front Office Automation, Data & Insights, and Post-Trade solutions. You can cover short positions, lend idle client inventory, gain insight into market movements, and reduce failed settlements from the same connected ecosystem.
Retail brokers borrow on NGT, Equilend's central trading platform, which connects you to the largest pool of securities finance supply across both general collateral and hard-to-borrow names. SmartBorrow detects short positions, sources inventory, negotiates rates, and books the trade automatically, so your desk covers more positions at better rates without adding headcount.
Yes. Fully Paid Lending lets retail brokers aggregate fully paid client assets and connect that inventory to global borrow demand. AutoLend auto-fills incoming borrow requests and Push Lists keep your availability live with the right counterparties, turning idle inventory into a new revenue stream while automating the securities lending lifecycle.
Equilend Locates brings locate requests from file, API, MQ, email, and manual entry into one workflow, checks real-time availability, prices each request, and reaches near 100% straight-through processing. Every locate decision is captured as a point-in-time record for audit-ready evidence, and NGT books trades cleanly for SFTR and CSDR reporting.
Settlement Monitor compares mandatory settlement fields at the point of trade and across the lifecycle, flagging the riskiest trades with indicative penalty costs so breaks are caught before they fail. The Enhanced SSI Repository validates and distributes settlement instructions to stop the bad data that causes roughly 30% of fails, helping your desk settle on time as the market moves to T+1.
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