Our Global One Agent Lending platform provides all of the key functionality to facilitate lending on either an agency or principal basis. It addresses the need for a quick availability enquiry, for both current and future dated stock positions, coupled with the ability to book a trade with the minimum amount of data entry.

Choosing FIS allows for:

• A fast and efficient way of checking overall and counterparty-specific availability for single stock or a requested list of securities
• Availability views filtered by, for example, market or index
• Available inventory for current day and future dates
• Availability enquiry summarized by dividend requirement, location/custody bank and individual funds
• Ability to import broker requirements via data upload
• Full credit checking, trade defaults and “agency risk” restrictions
• Option for manual or automatic loan allocation with fair allocation of securities from underlying funds via the auto allocation algorithm

Executives across the securities financing spectrum need accurate market data to satisfy regulatory mandates, capitalize on opportunities and benchmark their performance.

FIS’ award-winning Astec Analytics solutions deliver global intraday rate and volume information on securities lending transactions as well as analytics and benchmarking tools for trading, performance measurement and program management to international financial institutions involved in investment management and securities finance.

Traders no longer have to make do with stale data. You can access intraday securities lending data online and leverage valuable analytical tools in your spreadsheets via a custom add-in or in data feeds that can be integrated into your own systems.

Astec Analytics' up-to-date data increases transparency in the market and helps you identify market trends and trade more effectively.

Astec Analytics

FIS’ Astec Analytics offers a suite of market information solutions to provide performance measurement, program management and increased transparency for all market participants within the securities financing market.

FIS continues to adapt our securities finance solutions to support the evolving regulatory landscape through dialog with the market and engagement with industry associations.

Whether the challenge is to manage compliance around reporting and data handling, synchronize data models so that risk analytics provide consistent and reliable results, or balance the need to divert capital from investment in growth opportunities to regulatory compliance, FIS securities finance solutions can meet your needs.

Choosing FIS provides the ability to:

• Leverage customized, flexible solutions that automate and centralize risk calculation throughout the organization
• Ensure efficient and proactive risk management that is in compliance with new regulations
• Back test to comply with regulatory requirements and ensure the accuracy of models used in trading strategies
• Demonstrate compliance via detailed reporting and audit trails

Our securities lending solutions help you automate your entire trade lifecycle from order routing, trading, position management and operations through to accounting, settlement and reporting.

Choosing FIS gives you the ability to:

• Make more informed trading decisions through connectivity to trading platforms
• Maximize the potential of your firm’s securities and cash portfolios through true real-time global positions management, with support for "follow the sun" securities finance trading
• Achieve smarter operations by automating and supporting the needs of your securities lending and treasury operations areas while complying with global regulations
• Join a large community of lenders and borrowers utilizing a common processing environment

Apex Securities Finance

FIS’ Apex Securities Finance is a global trading and operations solution for securities lending, repo and collateral management that provides a holistic view across multiple business entities, currencies and products.

FIS’ Loanet solution suite for the North American market helps broker-dealers, custodian banks, agent lenders and other market participants manage their entire securities finance business, from trade initiation through to the final return. 

Some highlights include:

Seg optimization

This operates in conjunction with your in-house processing system or services bureau to provide real-time seg substitution capabilities and identify hard stock availability via "what if" capabilities.

Short Sale Locates

Industry rules and regulations are placing greater emphasis on short sales compliance. Loanet Short Sale Locates helps you address many of the authorization requirements as well as your firm’s specific guidelines for securities requiring locates.

Accounting and settlement

This option integrates your securities lending activity – including borrow and loan activity that settles through the Depository Trust Company (DTC) – with your trading, bookkeeping, stock record, risk, capital, credit, regulatory, settlement and funding systems. 

Regulation and compliance

This centralized, real-time solution complies with SEC Rule 15c3-3 and Regulation SHO and helps to automate reserve formula calculations to ensure efficient use of firm capital and accurate margin account segregation in line with industry regulations.