Shaping Smarter Securities Finance Strategies with EquiLend Real-Time Data

Real-time data unlocks faster decision-making, stronger risk management and more profitable trading strategies backed by continuous, real-time data flow. In today’s compressed settlement cycles, volatile markets and regulatory-driven deadlines, access to intraday insights is the only way to capture opportunities and mitigate risks as they emerge. Static dashboards simply cannot keep pace with the speed of modern securities finance where a missed signal can translate directly into higher financing costs or settlement penalties. EquiLend’s ecosystem of solutions empowers clients to bring real-time market intelligence closer to execution, ensuring they act before the market moves.

EquiLend’s Real-Time Data is embedded across our connected ecosystem, powering Trading, Post-Trade, RegTech and Data & Analytics solutions with live market intelligence. By combining real-time insight with advanced analytics, firms can bridge the gap between data and execution and deliver better results at every stage of the trade lifecycle.

The Power of Real-Time Data

EquiLend’s Real-Time Data solution delivers detailed, trade-by-trade insights within minutes of execution. It captures critical transaction-level information, including loan size, financing rates, execution timestamp and key lifecycle events such as returns, recalls and re-rates. The data is refreshed within minutes of a transaction event for maximum accuracy and relevance. The data paints a live picture of supply and demand dynamics, cost of borrowing and broader market sentiment across securities, sectors and markets.

With real-time data, firms gain timely, actionable insights into their positions that allow them to respond quickly, manage risk more effectively and capture opportunities as they emerge.

Smarter Monitoring and Market Context

With EquiLend Real-Time Data, firms can easily spot securities heating, increasing demand, and cooling, lessening demand, throughout the day. They can track intraday activity and market trends, maintaining an accurate, up-to-the-minute view of the market.

Each transaction is timestamped and categorized, delivering precise, time-based breakouts that give traders the context they need, whether they’re chasing alpha or managing exposure.

Applications of Real-Time Market Data in the Securities Finance Industry

EquiLend Real-Time Data supports firms in monitoring market events such as price swings, news announcements and corporate actions. It serves multiple critical functions across the industry, facilitating greater agile decision-making for traditional securities finance firms. Additionally, it benefits non-traditional finance users such as hedge funds, portfolio managers, traders, quants, as well as Treasury, Risk, and Compliance teams.

Liquidity analysis: Firms can assess real-time supply and demand market dynamics for assets, gaining insights into market depth and the immediate availability of securities.

Trading strategy optimization: The immediacy of real-time data aids in adjusting trading models to exploit short-lived market inefficiencies and increase profitability for firms.

Risk Management: Firms can utilize intra-day trade information to identify potential market risks.

Price Discovery: With updated views of lender-to-broker and broker-to-broker volumes throughout the day, market participants can identify when specific names are heating up or cooling off and adjust positions accordingly.

By leveraging real-time data, firms gain sharper visibility into current positions and market sentiment, enabling faster risk adjustments and supporting stronger returns.

Looking ahead, the Fed currently maintains its projection of 2-rate cuts by year end, but with some calling for more caution and a reduction in the forecasted cuts, plus the expiration of the 90-day tariff pause, the driving forces through the start of Q2 are sure to bring further volatility for markets.

Real-Time Data and the EquiLend Ecosystem of Solutions

Integrated within our market-leading trading platform, EquiLend NGT is used by over 130 firms daily to access more than 30 global markets. Real-Time Data enhances transparency with highly accurate intraday snapshots of asset and trade flows. This empowers firms with the tools to navigate market volatility, respond swiftly to changing conditions and pursue true operational excellence.

By connecting real-time market inputs with the EquiLend ecosystem’s breadth of Trading, Post-Trade, Regulatory and Data solutions, firms gain a competitive advantage in a complex, fast-moving securities finance environment. Our award-winning Data & Analytics suite is the trusted benchmark for the securities finance industry — delivering the global scale, depth, and integrity firms need to trade with confidence and drive stronger results.