OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Declined 8% In February

OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume in February reached 325,237,351 contracts, representing an 8 percent decrease from the February 2012 volume of 351,702,360 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date cleared contract volume is up 0.19 percent from 2012 with 690,265,229 contracts.

Options: Exchange-listed options trading volume reached 320,943,312 contracts in February, an 8 percent decrease from February 2012. Average daily options trading volume for the month was 16,891,753 contracts, 3 percent lower than February 2012.  Year-to-date options trading volume is down 0.42 percent from 2012 with 682,014,933 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared 4,294,039 futures contracts in February, a 92 percent increase from February 2012. Equity futures volume was up 219 percent from February 2012 with 755,732 contracts. Index and other futures volume came in at 3,538,307 contracts, a 77 percent increase from the previous February.  OCC’s year-to-date cleared futures volume is up 103 percent with 8,250,296 contracts in 2013.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 31 percent increase in new loans over February 2012 with 90,316 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 44 percent from 2012 with 190,890 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in February was $51,695,200,066.