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by anonu 2745 days ago
Interesting. I suppose it's a much more involved process where you need to locate shares to borrow. You need to maintain a list of easy to borrow and hard to borrow names. ETFs by definition are hard to borrow.

I used to work next to the stock loan desk at a bank. The equity markets are generally pretty tech driven these days but stock loan is still operating in a 1980s mentality.