OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Rose 17% In April

OCC announced that cleared contract volume for the month was 376,392,187 contracts, a 17 percent increase from April 2012. OCC's year-to-date total contract volume is down half a percent from April 2012 with 1,383,287,827 contracts.

Options: Exchange-listed options trading volume reached 371,147,433 contracts in April, a 16 percent increase from April 2012 and the highest April volume level ever recorded. Average daily volume in April came in at 16,870,338 contracts, 6 percent more than the 15,982,030 contracts in April of last year. Year-to-date volume stood at 1,364,727,666 contracts, down 1 percent from the 1,380,749,815 contracts at the same point last year. 

Futures: Futures cleared by OCC reached 5,244,754 contracts in April, up 123 percent from April 2012. OCC cleared an average of 238,398 futures contracts per day last month, a 103 percent increase from April 2012. OCC’s year-to-date cleared futures volume is up 87 percent with 18,560,161 contracts in 2013.

Securities Lending:  OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 53 percent increase in new loans over April 2012 with 121,910 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 38 percent from 2012 with 408,486 new loan transactions in 2013. The average daily loan value at OCC in March was $48,863,005,728.