DataLend is a securities finance data services division that provides market data and analytics tools to help users analyze securities lending activity. It offers metrics on fees, utilization, and inventory across different regions, sectors, and asset classes. The platform includes features like customizable reports, search tools, and benchmarks to help users track trends and assess their performance against industry peers.
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The DataLend® mission is to be
the leading provider of securities
finance market data.
DataLend® is the securities
finance data services division of
EquiLend, providing the market
with global data across all asset
classes and regions. This offering
extends EquiLend’s position as
the standard of excellence in the
securities finance industry.
DataLend® builds on EquiLend’s
strengths in technology and
benefits from its economies of
scale. EquiLend, as a regulated
trading platform, is a trustworthy
repository for sensitive securities
finance data.
Our technology enables our clients
to have a direct hand in shaping
the evolution of the securities
finance industry by producing
market data that is best suited to
serve the needs of industry
participants.
What We Do
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STANDARDS
DataLend® has taken an iterative approach
to develop business rules that standardize
data and maximize its usefulness.
Our standards help ensure that DataLend® meets its
clients’ objectives for quality at all times.
• Exclude duplicate records: no double
counting of records that may produce
erroneous or inflated statistics
• Removal of invalid or incomplete data
• Eliminate potential outliers that could
distort the data
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This data is available on the next business day
in formats including: data feed aggregated by
security or security and dividend rate; intuitive
user interface; and as an Excel® Add-In.
A
s part of our implementation of the
industry established “give to get”
methodology, DataLend® provides a
secure site through which to transfer data.
DataLend® provides inbound and outbound
file specifications for client data (i.e., open
contracts). It then accepts client data on a
daily basis and provides a set of anonymous,
aggregated metrics by security, including volume-
weighted average fees and rebates (1-day,
5-day, 10-day, 30-day, 90-day, All), days to
cover, short interest, utilization, inventory
value and quantity, loan value and quantity
and exclusive DataLend metrics such as the
DataLend Rate, re-rating information and
all-in rates.
How It Works
5. Offers high-level metrics based on the previous business day’s trading activity.
Provides metrics such as the total number of records, unique securities, total on-loan
and inventory values by region, asset class, sector and industry.
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Data Dashboard
The DataLend Target 50
The DL50 is available on the Data Dashboard. It is composed of the 50 most expensive equities to borrow for the
user-selected region determined by volume-weighted average fee/rebate rate and utilization. The DL50 is meant to be a
benchmark utility to determine how the hottest securities in the securities lending market are trending over time.
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The New Security Search screen
provides current and historical data
for a specific security including
on-loan and lendable quantity and
values, utilization, short interest,
volume-weighted average fees
and rebate rates trending over
time and re-rating information.
Security Search
7. Users are able to see their market share and performance
against the industry, their levels with their counterparties and
view transaction-level data.
The screen is highly customizable, allowing users to see the
most important fields they need to make an informed trading
decision quickly.
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DataTrack
DataTrack provides quick access to
lists of securities and their on-loan
metrics with the ability to add and
remove securities as desired.
Users can share their watch lists with
other users within their firm.
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Research Reports
Key features for all Research Reports include:
• Fully customizable screen layouts
• Filters enable you to create and save filtered views for easy, one-time filter setup
• Ability to pinpoint the largest changes in fees, rebates, on-loan value, short interest and
utilization from the previous business day, week or month within a selected asset class,
region, country or sector
• Ability to benchmark yourself against the industry to see where you are under- or
over-performing by asset class, region, country or sector
• Capability for an XLS upload of a list of securities such as the Russell 2000, Eurostoxx
600, S&P 500 or a customized list for pricing purposes
• All screens are downloadable to XLSX, XLS, CSV or TXT
The Deltas view allows you to spot securities with the largest changes in fee, rebate, on-loan value,
lendable value, short interest and utilization from the previous business day, week or month. It can help
users to quickly identify market trends no matter where they are or what they’re trading.
New! Deltas
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The Industry Metrics view allows you to see the entire universe of securities on loan
for a selected business date, including more than 41,000 unique securities. Users can
filter and sort securities by fee, rebate, utilization, on-loan and inventory value, country,
asset class and many other attributes.
Industry Metrics
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A robust filter set can also show
users where they may be under- or
over-performing against the
industry with just a few clicks. Users
can filter and sort their positions by
fee, rebate and daily P&L differences
against the industry as well as
market share, utilization, on-loan and
inventory value, country, asset class
and many other attributes.
Organization
Variance
The Organization Variance report is
a performance benchmarking tool
that allows users to see their entire
portfolio against all other DataLend
participants for a selected business
date.
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Our screens provide fast, easy and intuitive tools to help users easily
access and track securities finance market data.
The Add-In enables users to return
results for a list of securities and
also allows a download of historical
data for individual securities. This
data can be used for reporting or
analysis purposes directly in Excel®.
Excel® Add-In
The DataLend® Excel® Add-In function
allows users to run searchable queries
across DataLend®’s securities finance
dataset for a given business date. The
Add-In allows users to return securities
trading activity based on
utilization, volume-weighted average
rebate rate or fee, security type,
sector and industry.
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Beneficial Owner Reporting
Tools for comparing a beneficial owner’s securities lending performance
against other beneficial owners with similar attributes.
Users can see their performance metrics compared to the industry in the areas of: total
and average daily returns, daily average utilization, securities lending return to lendable,
total return to lendable and volume-weighted average loan pricing.
Users can filter their own funds along with funds they are comparing against to get
true “like-to-like” comparisons with the ability to define their time frame.
• Program Performance Report
• Client Performance Report
• Security Performance Report
Client Performance Reporting
14. Program Overview
T
he Program Overview enables
users to quickly compare their
entire lending program against all
other agent lenders on the DataLend
platform on a yearly, quarterly, monthly
or ad hoc basis.DataLend® accurately
compares your performance against
other agent lenders by matching their
results based on only those securities
you had out on loan. DataLend® also
takes the dividend rate(s) and loan
duration of those securities into
consideration. Finally, within the
performance summary statistics,
DataLend® “weighs” the group’s figures
to your program by applying the group’s
utilization and fee metrics to your firm’s
inventory to determine how other agent
lenders would have performed with your
inventory.
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• A period end snapshot of your
lending program including utilization,
volume-weighted average fee, securi-
ties lending return to lendable and other
metrics
• A performance summary versus other
agent lenders by securities lending
return to lendable, utilization, fees and
total return to lendable
• A revenue summary for the current
and previous quarter or month for your
organization including daily average
revenue and total revenue figures
by securities lending and cash
reinvestment activity
• Quarterly revenue figures split out by
securities lending and cash reinvestment
activity
• Top earning securities for the
timeframe
• A performance attribution scorecard
giving percentile-based metrics across
fees, utilization, reinvestment rate,
loan duration and return to lendable
performance versus other agent lenders
The Program Overview is available in a
printer-friendly XLS download, which can
also be emailed directly to users.
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For example, if a user wanted to see the
performance of a client pension plan
in the U.K., the user would select the
“Peers” option in the Matching Group
and DataLend® would include only U.K.
pension plans in the comparison group.
DataLend® compares your client’s
performance against other similar
clients by matching only those securities
your client had out on loan against the
compare group’s results. DataLend® also
takes the dividend rate(s) and loan duration
of those securities into consideration.
The Client Overview contains similar
performance metrics and functionality as
the Program Overview.
The Client Overview enables users to quickly compare an individual beneficial owner’s
portfolio against funds with similar legal structures and fiscal locations for a true
“like-to-like” comparison group.
CPR: Client Overview
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Client Performance Report
Users can filter their own funds along with funds they are comparing against to get
true “like-to-like” comparisons with the ability to define their time frame.
18. Users can navigate to this screen via a tab at the top of the reporting suite or by
clicking into any of the time series graphs in the Program or Client Overview screen.
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CPR: Security
Performance Report
The Security Overview screen is an
investigative tool that allows the user
to drill down to see their performance
against the group of all securities
out on loan for their entire lending
program or a client portfolio on any
given business date.
The Security Performance report screen
displays program or client metrics against a
peer group and displays the following data for
both:
• Volume-weighted average fees
• Utilization
• Securities lending return to lendable
• Daily revenue
Users also can elect to show their
security-level performance against their
specific peer group or all participants.
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About
EquiLend is backed by 10 global financial
institutions: BlackRock, Credit Suisse,
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Clearing, J.P.
Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan
Stanley, Northern Trust, State Street and UBS.
Used by securities borrowers and lenders
globally, the EquiLend platform (for equities)
and BondLend platform (for fixed income)
automate formerly manual trading and
post-trade processes in the securities
finance industry. DataLend, the securities
finance market data division of EquiLend,
provides highly cleansed and standardized
finance data covering all asset classes, regions
and markets globally.
EquiLend is a leading provider of trading
and post-trade services for the securities
finance industry with offices in New York,
London, Hong Kong and Toronto.