Nordic Principal Lender Automates Trading & Increases Profitability

Challenge

A leading Nordic financial services company relied on internal hosting and IT teams to maintain and enhance its legacy third-party trading platform. This approach created several roadblocks:

🟠  Manual trading processes slowed execution and increased operational risk.

🟠  Fragmented data from multiple inventory sources made it difficult to determine optimal lending strategies.

🟠  Unstable and underperforming third-party systems led to inefficiencies and limited scalability.

Solution

To overcome these challenges, the firm implemented Trading Apps’ AutoLend, Inventory, Trade and Pricing Engine solutions, creating an automated, data-driven trading ecosystem.

➡️  Inventory: A Unified View of inventory and availability

With Trading Apps’ Inventory, the firm consolidated all data sources into one platform, creating a smarter, faster, and more profitable trading environment.

• Aggregated multiple inventory sources (internal and external) into a single, real-time screen.
• Integrated trading data and market intelligence, providing deeper insights into availability and pricing.
• Improved decision-making by streamlining access to critical inventory information.

➡️  Trade: Smarter and Faster Trade Execution

Trading Apps transformed the firm’s trading workflow, automating processes and providing real-time trade insights.

• Unified trade analytics, entry, maintenance, and automation, reducing inefficiencies.
• Enabled traders to manage and execute trades seamlessly, freeing them to focus on strategy.
• Optimized trade lifecycle management, ensuring smooth trade execution and settlement.

➡️  Pricing Engine: Automated Rate Generation

Pricing Engine gave traders the speed and intelligence to stay ahead—removing guesswork and maximizing profitability.

• Integrated external market data, allowing for automated indicative rate generation.
• Ensured competitive pricing decisions by aligning lending strategies with real-time market trends.
• Reduced manual rate-setting errors, enhancing overall efficiency.

➡️  AutoLend: End-to-End Automation

AutoLend enabled multiple trades to be executed simultaneously at consistent rates—driving higher volumes, greater profits, and less risk.

• Integrated seamlessly with the existing EquiLend Gateway, automating trade matching and execution.
• Normalized incoming borrow requests from multiple sources, creating a single interactive view for traders.
• Eliminated inefficiencies, enabling traders to post and execute matched trades instantly.

Results

By automating core trading processes, Trading Apps helped this financial services firm scale operations, reduce risk, and drive profitability faster than ever before.

✅  Faster Execution & Higher Trade Volumes: Multiple trades were processed simultaneously at optimal rates.

✅  Increased Profitability: Automated execution reduced time-to-trade, improving revenue generation.

✅  Reduced Risk & Greater Efficiency: Automation minimized manual intervention, cutting operational risks.

✅  Stronger Competitive Edge: With automation in place, traders could now focus on more complex, high-value trades.