There were 59,460 new loan transactions in September. Year-to-date securities lending activity is up 64 per cent from 2009 with 459,664 new loan transactions in 2010. OCC's stock loan programme had an average daily notional value of $14,249,591,128.
Total OCC cleared volume in September reached 303,851,940 contracts, representing a four per cent decrease over the September 2009 volume of 316,624,143 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily volume is up six per cent compared to 2009 with 15,332,099 contracts and year-to-date total volume is up six per cent with 2,882,434,696 contracts.
Options: Exchange-listed options trading volume reached 302,075,193 contracts in September, a 4 per cent decrease from September 2009. Index options trading rose seven per cent from the previous September. Year-to-date average daily contract volume for exchange-listed options is up five per cent compared to the same period last year with 15,233,031 contracts.
Futures: OCC cleared 1,776,747 futures contracts in September, a two per cent decrease from September 2009. Equity futures volume was 359,068 contracts, a 14 per cent decrease over the same month last year. Index and other futures volume rose two per cent over the previous September with 1,417,251 contracts. Year-to-date average daily contract volume for futures cleared by OCC is up 177 per cent compared to 2009.
