NGT trading data showed +29% YoY increase in trading volumes for September! These highs take us into an optimistic Q4 with continued global revenue growth. ETFs continue their upward trajectory as momentum returns to securities finance revealing a new appetite for the power of automation.
EquiLend, the global financial technology, data and analytics company for the securities finance industry, today announced that The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY”) (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, and National Bank of Canada (TSE: NA) began executing trades utilizing 1Source’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) to increase efficiency, reduce breaks, and eliminate reconciliations.
After an 80% rally year-to-date, Applovin (APP US) fell 14% on October 6 following S&P 500 inclusion and reports of an SEC probe into its data-collection policies.
The warning signs were there, EquiLend’s Borrow Quantity surged +1,300% between Sept 18–22, rising from 1.4M to 19.35M shares, a clear indication that short sellers were positioning ahead of the selloff.
Following its acquisition of Trading Apps, EquiLend advances its mission to eliminate fragmentation and create a unified trade lifecycle for the securities finance industry.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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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.
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?
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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.