OneChicago Announces Trading Volumes For February 2012 - Security Futures Volume At The Exchange In February 2012 Was Up 33% Year-Over-Year, Compared To February 2011 - Blocks In February 2012 Was Up 187% Year-Over-Year, Compared To February 2011

OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced that a total of 237,197 security futures contracts were traded in the month of February 2012.

February 2012 Highlights

• 204,835 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. February 2012 EFPs and blocks activity represented more than $1.3 billion in notional value.
• 37% of February 2012 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk from the security futures.
• 56,170 February 2012 futures valued at more than $490 million were taken to delivery, emphasizing the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product.
• Open interest stood at 392,732 contracts on the equity finance exchange at the end of February 2012.

OneChicago’s OCX.BETS® platform was named a finalist in the annual FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for the Most Efficient Solution for OTC Derivatives Reform. OneChicago’s platform offers a transparent, competitively bid/offer, central counterparty cleared market, addressing the mandates set by the Dodd Frank Act for all market participants who trade EFPs. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 16, 2012.