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Flurry of activity for OCC's lending CCP


02 October 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

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OCC's securities lending central counterparty (CCP) activities saw a 21 percent increase in new loans from September 2012 with 87,792 transactions last month.

Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 28 percent from 2012 with 957,152 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in September was $65,617,688,082.

But OCC also announced that cleared contract volume in September reached 321,604,328 contracts, a 4 percent decrease from the September 2012 volume of 333,832,141 contracts.

Exchange-listed options trading volume reached 315,911,302 contracts in September, a 4 percent decrease from September 2012. Average daily options volume this year stands at 16,355,717 contracts, 1 percent higher than 2012. Year-to-date total options trading volume is up 1 percent with 3,074,874,727 contracts in 2013.

Futures cleared by OCC reached 5,693,026 contracts in September, a 35 percent increase from September 2012. OCC’s average daily cleared futures volume this year is 237,349 contracts, up 67 percent from 2012. OCC’s year-to-date total cleared futures volume is up 67 percent from 2012 with 44,621,604 contracts.

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