January 2023
Happy New Year, and welcome to the 11th issue of The Purple! 2022 was another banner revenue year for the securities lending community as the market generated nearly $10 billion in gross revenue for beneficial owners. In this edition, we provide a detailed overview of 2022 market conditions focusing on the key trends and drivers of revenue.
At EquiLend, our approach to data and analytics has evolved and grown significantly. In 2022, we formed our new Data and Analytics Solutions division focused on bringing new and actionable insights to the securities finance community and beyond. Read about our approach in “Reinventing Data & Analytics”.
Finally, we could not publish year in review without congratulating Women in Securities Finance on the group’s 5th anniversary in 2022 and on the amazing growth and success of the organization! The leaders, members and supporters of WISF had the opportunity to celebrate the group’s success by ringing bells at three of the world’s largest exchanges. We look forward to standing alongside WISF in the years to come.
Nancy Allen
Head of Data & Analytics Solutions, EquiLend
nancy.allen@equilend.com
While it is still early days, looking ahead, the Mercados Integrados Latinoamericanos (MILA) market association could ultimately play a significant role in the long-term unification of securities lending across the region
It is a time of change in Japan as Emperor Akihito abdicates his position, the first to do so in over 200 years.
Women in Securities Finance is an independent industry women’s group formed at the beginning of 2018 to foster connections in the securities finance industry.
On the surface, DataLend may seem like a fairly straightforward product: The system takes in some data from users and returns some data to users. However, when you look under the hood you quickly realize that processing and distributing this data is no easy task.
In this article DataLend examines the reasons why firms borrow securities, and some of the factors that can drive demand and make a security trade “special.”
DataLend takes a look beyond Q1 to forecast what to expect ahead in the securities finance industry.
In 2018 corporate bond issuance was down to its lowest level in seven years as rising interest rates, trade
wars and liquidity concerned potential investors.
As the so-called trade wars rage on, DataLend investigates the impact—or surprising lack thereof, in some cases—on securities finance markets across the globe
DataLend takes a look beyond Q2 2018 to forecast what to expect ahead in the securities finance industry.
To provide our clients with the most robust analytics available, EquiLend brought together DataLend’s powerful data processing and visualization know-how with NGT’s dataset to bring you The Pulse—Precision Analytics Powered by DataLend.
DataLend investigates the impact that rising interest rates had on returns generated by cash collateralized trades.
As the financial crisis roiled the global markets in 2008, the business models of these dealers were about to fundamentally change.
With the ever-increasing velocity at which data is being created, zetta (1 billion terabytes), yotta (1,000 zettabytes) and brontobytes (1,000 yottabytes) will soon become the language with which we describe data volume.
A technology provider such as EquiLend is ideally placed to incorporate revolutionary technologies into services already used by firms throughout the industry.
Australia: Down Under in Securities Finance Robert Antelmann, Product Specialist, DataLend September 19, 2018 THE AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES market was placed third in Asia Pacific by market size behind Japan and Hong Kong, respectively, in 2017. The equities securities lending market in Australia is characterized by a decentralized network of bilateral relationships consisting of both onshore
