Borrowers and lenders are invited to rate four types of technology provider, including trading platform, post-trade service, collateral management system, and data provider. 

To access the survey please click: EQUITY LENDING TECHNOLOGY SURVEY.

The technology survey is once again separate to the Global Investor/ISF equity lending survey.

Click to access the EQUITY LENDING SURVEY.

The survey will close on August 4. 

Methodology

Both borrowers and lenders are asked to rate three types of technology provider: trading platform, post-trade service and collateral management system.

Respondents are asked to rate these providers between 1 (unacceptable) and 7 (excellent) across several service categories. Seven of these categories are the same for each of the four provider types and three categories are unique to each.

Tables

The responses of borrowers and lenders are combined, averaged and presented in an overall table for each technology provider type.

There will be regional tables for Emea, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The client respondent’s specified location will determine the region of the response.

A firm will need to qualify in at least 2 of the 3 regions to qualify for the overall table.

There will also be category tables for overall qualifying firms.

Qualification

Overall

For each of the three technology types, firms need a minimum of twenty responses to qualify overall. The firm must also qualify in a minimum of two regions (Emea, Asia-Pacific, Americas). If two or more people from the same entity rate the same provider in the same region, the ratings will be averaged and the responses will count as a single response for qualification and table calculation purposes.

Regional

For regional tables (Emea, Asia-Pacific, Americas) firms need a minimum of ten responses to qualify.

Categories

The following seven categories are applied to all three technology provider types:

• ROI/cost efficiency

• Client reporting functionality

• Ability to tailor system/service

• Ease of integration

• User interface – including system responsiveness/speed

• Client service – helpdesk responsiveness to solve issues

• Innovation

In addition, each type of technology has unique categories:

Trading platform

• Footprint/breadth of use – including available inventory

• Reliability of platform

• Order management process

 

Post-trade service

• Reconciliation Ability

• Footprint/breadth of use

• Reliability

 

Collateral management system

• Strength of combined securities lending, repo and derivatives collateral management functionality

• Collateral optimisation features

• Collateral haircut, eligibility and concentration control