Securities lending is at a high for OCC 07 September 2012Chicago Reporter: Georgina Lavers
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Options Clearing Corporation’s (OCC) securities lending CCP activities saw a 50 percent increase in new loans from August 2011, with 92,072 transactions last month.
Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 26 percent from 2011 with 663,934 new loan transactions in 2012. The average daily loan value at OCC in August was $32,844,809,346.
Cleared contract volume was down significantly; at 313,781,757 contracts in August – representing a 43 percent decrease from the all-time monthly volume record of 554,842,463 contracts posted in August 2011.
Futures cleared by OCC reached 2,844,837 contracts in August, down 41 percent from 2011.
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