EquiLend + Trading Apps = Front-to-Back Automation
Following its acquisition of Trading Apps, EquiLend advances its mission to eliminate fragmentation and create a unified trade lifecycle for the securities finance industry.
Author: CJ Emson
Monthly Securities Finance Market Review Aug 2025
EquiLend’s Head of Trading Solutions, Mike Norwood, shares his monthly market review for securities finance, analyzing the August downturn, the region showing counter indicators to the summer slowdown and the strength in the market year-over-year.
Shaping Smarter Securities Finance Strategies with EquiLend Real-Time Data
Insight Aug 2025 Vaibhav Garg 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 […]
The Future of Securities Finance: How EquiLend’s AI Assistant can Redefine Data, Insights and Client Value
Insight Aug 2025 Vaibhav Garg The Future of Securities Finance: How EquiLend’s AI Assistant Can Redefine Data, Insights & Client Value Securities finance professionals are swimming in oceans of data: short interest signals, lending fees, macro signals, modelling data and often searching across data silos. The real problem is having enough time to turn that […]
Monthly Securities Finance Market Review July 2025
EquiLend’s Head of Trading Solutions, Mike Norwood returns with analysis of securities finance markets in July as tariff policy and inflation bolstered western markets, while trade tensions and currency concerns unsettled eastern markets.
Market Flash on KSS & OPEN
Insight JULY 25, 2025 Market Flash Market Flash on Kohl’s (KSS) and Opendoor (OPEN) The Return of Meme Stock Mania Recent market activity has shown how heavily shorted stocks can be affected by coordinated retail trading campaigns. Our analysis of Kohl’s Corporation (KSS) and Opendoor Technologies (OPEN) identifies patterns in securities finance metrics that indicate […]
Fully Paid Lending with EquiLend Spire
As part of the EquiLend Spire suite of Securities Finance Platform Solutions, EquiLend’s Fully Paid Lending (FPL) system delivers a comprehensive FPL engine to firms which offer FPL as a service, as well as a full-fledged solution for those looking to start an FPL offering.
The Purple Edition 19 | A Market’s Maturation: The Continued Growth of ETF Securities Finance
Insight July 2025 The Purple A Market’s Maturation: The Continued Growth of ETF Securities Finance The long-term growth of the Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) market is one of the most significant structural developments in modern finance. As ETFs have become foundational components of institutional portfolios, the ecosystem supporting them has matured in tandem. A key part […]
The Purple Edition 19 | Tariff Turbulence: How Trade Wars Reshaped Securities Lending in H1 2025
Insight July 2025 The Purple Tariff Turbulence: How Trade Wars Reshaped Securities Lending in H1 2025 The securities lending market thrives on market volatility and since Trump took office the VIX volatility index peaked to levels not seen since March 2020, when COVID rattled the globe. According to President Trump, “Tariffs is the most beautiful […]
The Purple Edition 19 | H1 2025 Securities Lending Market Revenue
Insight July 2025 The Purple H1 2025: Securities Lending Market Revenue EquiLend looks back on the drivers of lending revenue in the first half of 2025 in the 19th Edition of EquiLend The Purple. As we arrive at the midway point of 2025, trade and market volatility remain the global topics of conversation. The Trump […]
EquiLend Monthly Market Commentary Oct 2022
Mike Norwood, Head of EquiLend Trading Solutions, gives his take on October’s trading data with the continued backdrop of global volatility from a range of sources.
EquiLend Solutions: Viewing Trade Lifecycle Activity Centrally
View, trade, manage and monitor your positions, exposure, settlement and inventory, centrally for a whole lifecycle experience with EquiLend Services.
EquiLend Securities Finance Q2 Lookback
Mike Norwood, Head of EquiLend Trading Solutions, provides insight into the market trends seen throughout Q2 while reflecting on EquiLend’s record quarter in relation to volumes traded across the global platform, resulting in growth year over year.
CSDR Client Concerns: Part 4
In our CSDR Client Concerns series we’ve considered each of the points causing clients the greatest concerns ahead of CSDR and examined each in practice since CSDR go-live in Feb 2022. One issue which has only been lightly considered is that of liquidity. Has market liquidity been negatively impacted by increased regulation?
A Reflection on Asian Market Growth in 2022
Andy McCardle, Head of EquiLend Asia, shares his unique viewpoint of the global and local changes impacting APAC markets from his experience in both US and Asian markets.
EquiLend Securities Finance Q1 Market Lookback
EquiLend Trading saw a record-breaking quarter in relation to both volumes and notional traded across the platform, representing significant growth year over year. @Mike Norwood, EquiLend’s Global Trading Product Owner, reflects on the trends seen in the market since the start of the year and EquiLend’s continued growth and increasing volumes across our trading platform.
CSDR Client Concerns: Part 3
The European Settlement Regime has brought unexpected challenges for market participants in securities finance. In part 3 of our #CSDR concerns series, we explore the CSDR impact on collateral and the staggering impact on returns within the securities lending trade lifecycle.
The New Special: The Rise of SPACs & Meme Stocks
The rise of SPACs and meme stocks has brought new attention to financial markets. Matt Ross, DataLend Product Specialist surveys the financial landscape with these new instruments.
CSDR Client Concerns: Part 2
In part 2 of our CSDR concerns series, we’re focused on the impact of the regulation on Standard Settlement Instructions and repository and how Settlement Monitor has saved thousands of pounds in CSDR fines for clients.
Settlement Monitor: The Silver Bullet for CSDR
Where Exposure Management reduces settlement costs associated with failing trades, the tie-in with Settlement Monitor, the newest release from EquiLend, eliminates them.
EquiLend Trading Records Signal Growth in Electronic Trading in Securities Lending
EquiLend Trading Records Signal Growth in Electronic Trading in Securities Lending
CSDR Client Concerns: Part 1
EquiLend surveyed our community of clients to better understand their concerns for the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). In part one of our 5-part series, we’ll focus on the importance of pre-matching and the impact on returns introduced by CSDR.
CSDR: Solutions in Technology
CSDR is finally scheduled for implementation in February 2022, yet despite the delays, the requirement to prepare effectively for CSDR is no less for the uncertainty surrounding it.