# Equilend

> Equilend supplies electronic trading, workflow automation, market data and shared-ledger infrastructure for institutional securities finance. Founded by ten financial institutions in 2001, it now serves more than 250 client firms globally and is majority owned by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

- **Founded:** 2001
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Barclays Global Investors (Founding consortium member), Bear Stearns (Founding consortium member), Goldman Sachs (Founding consortium member), JPMorgan Chase (Founding consortium member), Lehman Brothers (Founding consortium member), Merrill Lynch (Founding consortium member), Morgan Stanley (Founding consortium member), Northern Trust (Founding consortium member), State Street (Founding consortium member), UBS Warburg (Founding consortium member)
- **Products:** NGT (Next Generation Trading), Bondlend, Datalend, Spire, 1Source
- **Notable:** More than 250 client institutions reported on the current website., NGT launched on April 27, 2015., Live 1Source trades with BNY and National Bank of Canada announced October 15, 2025.

## Products & services

- **NGT (Next Generation Trading)** — Electronic bilateral securities finance trading, accessed through a browser or automated messaging.
- **Bondlend** — Fixed-income securities lending technology.
- **Datalend** — Aggregated and anonymized securities finance data for pricing, benchmarking and performance analysis.
- **Spire** — Modular securities finance books and records, inventory, billing, collateral and lifecycle management.
- **1Source** — Canton Network-based shared trade lifecycle record for borrowers and lenders; initial live trades announced with BNY and National Bank of Canada.
- **ECS Loan Market** — Anonymous centrally cleared securities lending market for OCC-eligible securities.
- **Post-Trade and Regulatory** — Comparison, recalls, returns, settlement monitoring, exposure, billing and regulatory reporting workflows.
- **Trading Apps** — Front-office automation, trading modules and TA.Link messaging; acquired in July 2025.
- **Orbisa** — Securities finance analytics including borrow-demand and short-interest indicators, also available through Bloomberg.
- **Finadium** — Research and consulting in securities finance, repo, collateral and market infrastructure; acquired in May 2026 with editorial independence retained.

## Achievements

- More than 250 client institutions reported on the current website.
- NGT launched on April 27, 2015.
- Live 1Source trades with BNY and National Bank of Canada announced October 15, 2025.
- The company reports Trading System of the Year, Americas Data Provider of the Year and Asian Data Provider of the Year at the 2026 Securities Finance Times Industry Excellence Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Agreed to connect securities lending clearing infrastructure with Cboe Clear Europe on October 8.
- **2026-10** — October 15 platform commentary describes Spire 3.0 and identifies BNY, Goldman Sachs and National Bank of Canada as live 1Source participants.
- **2026-09** — Unveiled refreshed branding and the tagline Connecting Securities Finance.
- **2026-06** — Announced Credit Benchmark integration into Onboard+ and alrajhi capital as a securities finance technology client.
- **2026-05** — Acquired Finadium on May 12; named Delta Capita a Spire implementation partner on May 28.

## Links

- Website: https://equilend.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equilend
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/equilend

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