April 2026
Insight April 2026 The Purple Issue 22 Epic Fury, Meet Furious Shorts: Bears Waste No Time Piling In When the U.S. and Israel began strikes on Iran on February 28th, 2026, it triggered what the International Energy Agency has since described as the “greatest global energy security challenge in history”. The near-total closure, followed by a blockade of the Strait of
In The Purple Issue 22, EquiLend Data & Analytics shows exactly where that revenue came from, across regions, asset classes, sectors and real-time demand. This
Insight April 2026 The Purple Issue 22 Bridging the Short Interest Gap: EquiLend’s Predicted Short Interest Now Live! Market turbulence has a way of exposing what’s signal and what’s noise. Two months ago, amid heightened market volatility, EquiLend’s Predicted Short Interest went live and with multiple reporting cycles now closed, we now have our first real opportunity to
Insight April 2026 The Purple Issue 22 Securities Finance Market Review: Q1 2026 AI crowding, regional winners, and why borrow demand stayed busyMike Norwood, Head of EquiLend Trading Solutions | Max Baker, EquiLend Data & Analytics Product Specialist NGT Trading Volumes Q1 Trades Q1 Notional YoY Trade Growth March Record Month 11.34M $13.6T +25.58% 4.31M
Understanding short interest is critical, yet traditional short interest data has significant limitations as it is infrequent and heavily delayed.
2025 was a defining year for AI-linked equities. Markets aggressively rewarded companies positioned across the entire value chain, from compute infrastructure and semiconductors to enterprise
The curtain has closed on 2025 — and what a year it was for global 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
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
The first quarter of 2025 was a period of heightened volatility and uncertainty for global markets, driven by a confluence of macroeconomic and geo-political factors.
Navigating short interest in the corporate bond market can be filled with risk. The lack of transparency and public reporting forces investors to use limited
In Q1 2025, the lending of APAC equities bolstered revenue for the rest of the securities finance market by reporting a 29% increase in year-over-year
EquiLend Short Squeeze Score | Designed to provide early warning signals of potential short squeezes, using both comprehensive securities finance data and social media sentiment
After aggressively hiking interest rates to a 10-year high of 5.5%, the U.S. Federal Reserve started 2024 in a holding-pattern of sorts. Inflation measures were
With two months now elapsed since the 2024 U.S. presidential election, policy shifts planned by the incoming administration have begun to come into focus, and
As U.S. equity markets rallied in 2024, securities lending revenue for U.S. equities faced significant challenges, with Q4 revenue down 7% year-over-year (YoY), contributing to
While global securities lending revenue faced headwinds in 2024, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region showed resilience, experiencing a comparatively modest 1.8% year-over-year (YoY) decline to $2.1
