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.
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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.
EquiLend Launches Bespoke ESG Data Analysis and Validation Service
EquiLend has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data analysis and validation service for securities finance market participants.
Settlement Monitor: The Silver Bullet for CSDR
Where EquiLend Exposure 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.
Information Security: Log4j Monitoring
EquiLend became aware of the Log4j vulnerability through its information security surveillance process and is actively assessing its impact.
Here’s where I stand on talent and our workforce
Management Insight Here’s where I stand on talent and our workforce Brian Lamb DEC 2021 Without meaning to state the obvious, we are in new territory when it comes to talent and the workforce. These issues have always been important for executives, but the seismic changes to the working world brought about by the pandemic […]
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.
Global Custodian Fireside Friday with Brian Lamb
Global Custodian Editor Jonathan Watkins recently interviewed EquiLend CEO Brian Lamb about EquiLend’s 20 years of innovation in the securities finance industry.
Embracing ESG principles in securities finance
The current spike in interest reflects investors’ growing expectations that their capital be used to make the world a better place.
Making digital transformation more than a buzzword through the lens of a technologist
Management Insight Making digital transformation more than a buzzword through the lens of a technologist Ken DeGiglio Sep 2021 As the era of digital transformation continues to revolutionize every industry from healthcare to banking, the impacts on niche market sectors like securities finance can be harder to parse–but just as transformative. What are the key […]
EquiLend acquires strategic stake in Stonewain Systems
Increased stake builds on successful partnership for EquiLend Spire solution.
Six New Counterparties Join NGT Securities Finance Trading Platform
Six new counterparties have joined NGT, the multi-asset class digital trading platform for the securities finance marketplace.
Working better together: EquiLend’s 100-day return plan
Like many fellow chief executives and business leaders, my daily to-do list has recently been dominated by one key area of decision making
Actions speak louder than words in diversity and inclusion
The social and political disruption of 2020 ignited a dialogue around pervasive racial and gender-based inequities.
Securities Lending Trading Volumes
Securities lending trading volume
New Year, Continued Innovation
In 2021, I believe the pace of technical innovation in the securities finance industry will accelerate immeasurably.
EquiLend Named Among ‘Best Places to Work in NYC’
EquiLend, the global fintech firm, today was named one of the “Best Places to Work in NYC” by technology professional network Built In.
Happy Holidays from EquiLend – December 2020
We Wish you a Happy Holidays!
Digital Transformation in Securities Finance
Where is the securities finance industry on the journey toward digital transformation? And what is at stake if the transition is too slow? What will a fully digital industry look like? Tune in for a look into these developments and more.
Effectively Managing Collateral With EquiLend Exposure
Recent market volatility has placed increased focus on collateral management and the ability to manage your trading exposures quickly, accurately and efficiently. Our range of connected technology solutions throughout the trade lifecycle help to solve this.
EquiLend SFTR: The System Behind the Solution
SFTR is the single most comprehensive piece of legislation which the securities finance market
has ever been subjected to, ahead of the legislative agenda driving the future introduction of CSDR.
Latin America Securities Finance Market User Guide 2020
EquiLend and The Risk Management Association (RMA) have joined forces with domestic and international market participants active in Latin America to produce the second annual Latin America Securities Finance User Guide.
Distance Working: The Opportunity to Rebuild
As the coronavirus pandemic swept across the globe, the collective workforce went home, forcing some industries to come to a standstill. Businesses crucial for enabling liquidity, however, continued largely uninterrupted. The finance industry quickly reoriented business practices and has embraced the opportunities to shape the future of our industry.
Remote & Rearranged: Securities Finance and The Future
Amidst the dust that settles from COVID-19-instigated market volatility emerges a finance industry seeking to evolve into its new business scenescape. The public health response demanded of COVID-19 forced a wide spectrum of business practice changes so to enable a social distancing-confined world.
The Economics of a Recovery: Futureproofing Securities Lending for Turbulent Times
As the sudden, substantial, unanticipated market volatility of Q1 2020 collided with the global shift to trepidation in contact with others, our well-engrained reference points for work and leisure were forever transformed.
Securities Finance: The Future
Without a doubt, recent events have left the securities finance industry forever changed.
How the World’s Largest Liquidity Provider Motivated the Move to Non-Cash Funding
From the start of 2020 to date, the EquiLend NGT platform has seen a notable increase in non-cash securities lending transactions. Here’s what we believe motivated the jump…
Asia Pacific Securities Lending Market User Guide 2020
EquiLend, PASLA and RMA present the Asia Pacific Securities Lending Market User Guide 2020.
EquiLend’s Response to COVID-19
EquiLend is taking active measures to ensure that business continues as usual during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Women’s History Month 2020
This March, during Women’s History Month, EquiLend will be featuring Q&As with some of the EquiLend women who are helping to shape our business!
EquiLend Collateral Trading Service Goes Live
EquiLend, the global technology company for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries, today announced that its Collateral Trading service has gone live globally, following an intensive and highly successful pre-testing phase.
EquiLend: Five New Counterparties Join NGT Securities Finance Trading Platform
EquiLend announced the addition of five new counterparties to its NGT securities finance trading platform: DZ Bank AG, E*Trade, Janney Montgomery Scott, Matsui Securities and TD Ameritrade.
EquiLend Recognized in Built in NYC ‘Best Places to Work’ Lists
Built in NYC, the national hub for technology trend coverage, today recognized EquiLend on its lists of Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Companies to Work For.
DataLend: $8.66 Billion in Revenue Generated for Securities Lenders in 2019
The global securities finance industry generated $8.66 billion in revenue for lenders in 2019, according to market data provider DataLend.
EquiLend Automates Total Return Swaps Trading With Swaptimization Launch
EquiLend, the global technology company for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries, today launched the Swaptimization platform to automate the total return swaps (TRS) market.
Improving the Plumbing: Tackling Post-Trade Inefficiencies
Although the post-trade ecosystem is seen as the “plumbing” of financial services, mainly hidden but crucial, its role in ensuring the industry’s health made it key to global post-crisis regulatory reforms…
Ready, Steady, Go: How EquiLend Is Delivering on SFTR
As we close in on Phase 1 Go Live for SFTR, it is time to take stock of industry preparations for perhaps the most significant change the securities financing industry has ever seen.
EquiLend Brexit FAQ
In preparation for Brexit, EquiLend’s Dublin-based MTF goes live on September 9 for European-based clients and their global counterparties. Click here for more details and to ensure continuity of access to NGT’s liquidity.
SFTR UAT Live on EquiLend and Trax
User acceptance testing (UAT) on the EquiLend & Trax SFTR Solution is now available in a live environment.