OCC enjoys new loans in October 04 November 2013Chicago Reporter: Mark Dugdale
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OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 26 percent increase in new loans from October 2012, with 97,472 transactions last month.
Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 28 percent from 2012 with 1,054,624 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in October was $70,720,228,408, marking the highest average notional value to date.
OCC also cleared 5,494,255 futures contracts in October, a 69 percent increase from the same month in 2012.
Its average daily cleared futures volume is up 66 percent from 2012 with 237,516 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date total cleared futures volume is up 67 percent from 2012 with 50,115,859 contracts.
The equity derivatives clearing organisation’s cleared contract volume in October reached 407,220,455 contracts, representing a 24 percent increase from the October 2012 volume of 327,576,945 contracts.
It marks the first time since August 2011 that cleared contract volume hit 400 million contracts in a single month and the fourth time in its history.
OCC's year-to-date total cleared contract volume is up 4 percent from 2012 with 3,526,716,786 contracts.
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