OCC April Cleared Volume Down Five Percent

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that total cleared contract volume in April reached 385,965,706 contracts, a 4.9 percent decline compared to last April. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is 19,200,350, down 12.8 percent compared to 2018's record-breaking pace.

Options: Overall exchange-listed options volume reached 380,420,404 contracts in April, down 4.5 percent from 398,481,297 in 2018. Equity options volume reached a total of 344,847,772 contracts, a 3.2 percent decrease from April 2018. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 124,382,646 contracts last month, a 24.4 percent decrease compared to the April 2018 volume of 164,495,446 contracts. Index options volume was down 15.9 percent with 35,572,632 contracts in April, with year-to-date average daily volume of 1,818,555 contracts.

Futures: Futures cleared by OCC reached 5,545,302 contracts in April, down 24.8 percent from April 2018. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is 283,660 contracts, 43.1 percent less than 2018.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 1.6 percent in new loans from April 2018 with 109,141 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity decreased 2.3 percent from 2018 with 447,595 new loan transactions in 2019. The average daily loan value at OCC in April was $70,839,683,397.61.

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