(Source - Pexels)
An increasing number of brokerages are allowing individual investors to take part in lending their long positions to short sellers for extra returns from short sellers ' interest payments. This is also known as a "Stock Yield Enhancement Program" or SYEP. In the case of Interactive Brokers, investors receive half of the total fee received by the brokerage (the other half goes to Interactive Brokers).
While that brings in little for the majority of stocks that have fee rates less than 1%, some stocks have such poor availability or extremely high