Onboarding should not be the bottleneck that keeps lendable assets sidelined. Yet up to 80% of funds remain stuck in onboarding, never actually going live.

In securities lending, onboarding remains highly manual, fragmented, and opaque. Email-based document exchange, duplicated requests, and limited visibility across counterparties lead to long approval timelines and significant volumes of trapped liquidity. In many cases, funds remain pending for months, or even forever, leaving inventory unavailable when demand is highest.

This white paper explores why onboarding is primed for digital transformation and how modern, workflow-driven onboarding can materially improve time to revenue, reduce operational burden, and unlock previously inaccessible supply.