EquiLend invests in Digital Prime to expand into tokenised assets

By Vriti Gothi

EquiLend has invested in Digital Prime Technologies as it moves to extend its securities finance infrastructure into tokenised assets and digital markets, reflecting growing institutional demand for regulated, end-to-end workflows across traditional and digital instruments.

The investment brings together EquiLend’s established trading, post-trade, and data platforms with Digital Prime’s U.S.-regulated technology for institutional crypto financing and prime brokerage. The partnership is positioned to address structural shifts in capital markets, as tokenised assets, digital securities, and stablecoins increasingly intersect with established securities lending and financing models.

Under the agreement, the two firms will enable integrated workflows spanning trade execution, post-trade processing, and analytics, with an initial focus on institutional financing for tokenised assets and crypto via Digital Prime’s Tokenet network. Tokenet supports multi-custodian and multi-collateral lifecycle management, exposure monitoring, and institutional reporting, with plans to expand into regulated stablecoin collateral and additional tokenised instruments.

A key priority will be aligning Digital Prime’s workflows with EquiLend’s NGT trading platform and its 1Source post-trade solution, while routing aggregated activity into EquiLend’s data and analytics layer. The integration is intended to improve transparency and operational efficiency as settlement cycles shorten and financing activity evolves across asset classes.

Nick Delikaris, Chief Product Officer at EquiLend, said the investment would allow the firm to extend its infrastructure into tokenised assets and cryptocurrencies while maintaining institutional standards around automation and transparency.

“For Digital Prime, the investment provides access to EquiLend’s global network and established market infrastructure. Digital Prime is built around institutional standards,” said James Runnels, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Prime Technologies. “EquiLend’s investment and network will help us scale thoughtfully while we continue to prioritise compliance, risk management and transparency.”

The move highlights a broader trend in capital markets, where incumbent financial market infrastructure providers are increasingly investing in regulated digital-asset platforms to prepare for a future in which tokenized and traditional assets coexist within the same financing and post-trade ecosystems.