OCC sees securities lending activity rise
04 December 2018 Chicago
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OCC’s securities lending central counterparty activity was up 4.2 percent in new loans from November last year with 111,814 transactions last month.
Year-to-date stock loan activity increased 18.5 percent from 2017 with 1,267,105 new loan transactions this year.
The average daily loan value at OCC in November was $79,627,866,359.
Total cleared contract volume in November reached 438,027,585 contracts, up 10.4 percent compared to the same period last year, which saw a volume of 396,779,462.
Year-to-date, OCC has cleared 4.71 billion options contracts and 4.81 billion total contracts, with both reaching new annual cleared contract volume records for the US exchange-listed options industry.
Equity options volume reached a total of 383,838,299 contracts, a 12.8 percent increase from November last year.
Meanwhile, futures cleared by OCC reached 8,356,684 contracts in November, down 23.2 percent from November 2017.
OCC’s year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is 418,942 contracts, 24.4 percent less than 2017.
Year-to-date stock loan activity increased 18.5 percent from 2017 with 1,267,105 new loan transactions this year.
The average daily loan value at OCC in November was $79,627,866,359.
Total cleared contract volume in November reached 438,027,585 contracts, up 10.4 percent compared to the same period last year, which saw a volume of 396,779,462.
Year-to-date, OCC has cleared 4.71 billion options contracts and 4.81 billion total contracts, with both reaching new annual cleared contract volume records for the US exchange-listed options industry.
Equity options volume reached a total of 383,838,299 contracts, a 12.8 percent increase from November last year.
Meanwhile, futures cleared by OCC reached 8,356,684 contracts in November, down 23.2 percent from November 2017.
OCC’s year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is 418,942 contracts, 24.4 percent less than 2017.
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