T+1 Unlocked: Navigating the Shift to Expedited Settlement
In the ever-evolving landscape of securities finance, the introduction of T+1 settlement has proven to be a flash point for the industry.
Achieve T+1 Readiness with EquiLend’s Advanced Solutions
As the financial world shifts to T+1, markets across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Argentina have already embraced accelerated settlement, with Europe and Australia advancing their plans to follow. This transition demands unprecedented speed, precision and automation at every stage of the trade lifecycle.
EquiLend’s solutions seamlessly connect, automate and empower firms in the execution of T+1 with a comprehensive solutions designed to meet and exceed T+1 requirements.
Prepare for T+1 success with EquiLend’s comprehensive, adaptable T+1 solution.
Why Choose EquiLend for T+1?
As the industry pivots toward T+1, firms face the pressure to achieve flawless execution and minimize risk while accelerating operations. EquiLend’s solutions are designed with these imperatives in mind, addressing the pain points of high-speed execution, proactive risk management and real-time reconciliation—each critical to thriving in a T+1 environment.
Addressing Key T+1 Challenges with EquiLend
Optimize Trade Execution with Speed and Precision
In the T+1 world, every second counts. EquiLend’s Next Generation Trading (NGT) platform enables seamless, real-time trade execution, reducing latency and enabling faster connections with counterparties. Competitive Bid offers up-to-the-minute market visibility, allowing firms to execute trades with precision and reduce turnaround time.
Unified Risk Management with the Risk Resolution Suite (R2S)
The compressed T+1 environment leaves no room for delays in recalls or returns. EquiLend’s Risk Resolution Suite (R2S) combines Recalls, Returns and Settlement Monitor into a single, streamlined platform. This integration enables you to address risks proactively, reduce the likelihood of costly settlement failures and maintain efficiency in one intuitive interface.
The compressed T+1 environment leaves no room for delays in recalls or returns. EquiLend’s Risk Resolution Suite (R2S) combines Recalls, Returns and Settlement Monitor into a single, streamlined platform. This integration enables you to address risks proactively, reduce the likelihood of costly settlement failures and maintain efficiency in one intuitive interface.
Prevent Settlement Delays with Advanced Monitoring
Settlement delays can impact your bottom line and pose compliance risks. Settlement Monitor offers real-time visibility into trade status, identifying and resolving settlement threats before they escalate. This proactive monitoring helps reduce penalty fees and ensures smooth, compliant settlement processes.
Efficient Recalls and Returns with Automation and Control
T+1 requires that recalls and returns are processed instantly. EquiLend’s integrated Recalls and Returns tools offer automated options and customizable rules to support your workflow. Whether you choose full automation for speed or retain active control, these tools ensure that your recalls and returns align with strategy while minimizing operational friction.
End-to-End Collateral Management
Swift, reliable collateral movement is crucial for T+1. Exposure Management simplifies collateral agreements, facilitates tri-party collateral cover and minimizes the risk of settlement delays. This ensures that your firm is prepared to meet T+1 standards seamlessly and without disruption.
Real-Time Reconciliation with EquiLend 1Source
Manual reconciliation processes are prone to delays and errors, which can undermine T+1 compliance. EquiLend 1Source provides a DLT-based, automated source of truth, eliminating reconciliation delays and supporting timely, accurate settlement in line with T+1 standards.
Benefits
Reduced Latency and Enhanced Accuracy
Streamline the entire trade lifecycle with automated workflows and robust exception management, delivering consistent accuracy and speed to meet T+1 demands.
Flexible Integration Options
Connect with EquiLend’s T+1 solutions in a way that best suits your system—whether via our user interface, SFTP, or API—for seamless adoption and integration.
Greater Automation, Less Manual Work
Maximize efficiency and reduce manual processes with solutions designed for the future of finance, enabling your team to focus on strategic, high-impact tasks.
Real-Time Data and Transparency
Achieve complete visibility with real-time, trade-level data for both sides of the transaction, supporting faster, more informed decision-making.
T+1 Insight
View our library of content focussed on the global challenges and solutions to accelerated settlement.
T+1 Transition for Europe and the UK Webinar
our 6 months of Accelerated Settlement T+1 Webinar covered key findings from 6 months of accelerated settlement and the detail around the challenges facing EMEA in the transition and touched on client feedback and sentiment this year in adapting to T+1.
Effective Collateral Management in a T+1 Environment with Exposure Management
Collateral management is a key consideration for European market participants in a T+1 environment. Exposure Management can support firms in achieving accelerated settlement
1Source: Reconciliations and Transaction Breaks a Thing of the Past? As Featured in Securities Finance Times
In today’s Securities Finance Times RMA issue, EquiLend’s Ken DeGiglio, Chief Information Officer, reflects on the journey of EquiLend’s transformative 1Source initiative and the efficiencies it’s bringing to the marketplace by eliminating reconciliations for securities lending transactions.
EquiLend’s Mantle on How T+1 is Being Managed: Finadium
EquiLend’s Gabi Mantle, Head of Post-Trade Solutions, sat down with Finadium to discuss the imminent launch of T+1 and how firms are gearing up for the change ahead of May 2024.
Are We Ready for the Future Now? Going Beyond T+1: Global Investor Securities Finance Americas Guide 2023
In a recent interview with Global Investor Group, EquiLend’s Gabi Mantle, Head of Post-Trade Solutions, reflects on the proposed SEC 10c-1 rule and the move to T+1 settlement while highlighting EquiLend’s complete T+1 solution, designed to increase speed at every touchpoint throughout the entire trade lifecycle with increased automation across the board.
T+1: Large Scale Progress Requires Ambitious Solutions
In our latest analytical piece, we unpack the shift to T+1 settlement in the U.S. and Canada and how EquiLend’s ready to support the move with our robust suite of flexible and interoperable solutions.
The EquiLend Ecosystem: Forming Connections Through Solutions
EquiLend’s Kevin McNulty, Head of RegTech Solutions, sat down with Securities Finance Times to reflect on current challenges faced by market participants and how EquiLend is meeting these concerns with solutions.
SEC Adopts T+1 Settlement Effective May 2024 – Will you be ready for T+1 a year from now?
EquiLend offers a complete T+1 solution designed to connect, automate, simplify and expedite all elements of the trade lifecycle. From trade execution to prematching, recalls, returns and settlement, EquiLend has you covered with increased speed at every touchpoint.