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OCC enjoys May increases


04 June 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

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OCC's securities lending central counterparty activities saw a 46 percent increase in new loans over May 2012 with 121,016 transactions last month.

Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 40 percent from 2012 with 529,502 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in May was $57,687,152,619.

The equity derivatives clearing organisation’s total cleared contract volume in May reached 391,347,069 contracts, representing a 3 percent increase from the May 2012 volume of 380,417,938 contracts.

Its year-to-date cleared contract volume is up 0.2 percent from 2012 with 1,774,634,896 contracts.

OCC’s exchange-listed options trading volume also experienced an increase, with it reaching 386,428,255 contracts in May, a 2 percent increase on the same month in 2012.

Average daily options trading volume for the month reached 17,564,921 contracts, which was 2 percent higher than May 2012. Year-to-date total options volume is down 0.41 percent with 1,751,155,921 contracts in 2013.

The total number of cleared futures reached 4,918,814 contracts in May, up 71 percent from the same month in 2012. OCC cleared an average of 223,582 contracts per day last month, an increase of 71 percent from May 2012.

Its year-to-date cleared futures volume is up 83 percent with 23,478,975 contracts in 2013.
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