OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Declined 13% in February

Chicago -

OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume in February was 306,531,839 contracts, a 13 percent decrease from the February 2014 volume of 350,507,077 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is down 9 percent from 2014 with 17,049,163 contracts.

Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 302,527,974 contracts in February, a 12 percent decrease from February 2014. Equity options volume for the month was 275,262,981 contracts, a 10 percent decrease from February 2014. Average daily options volume this year is down 8 percent from 2014 with 16,815,203 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in February was 4,003,865 contracts, a 28 percent decrease from February 2014. Equity futures volume at OCC last month was 837,327 contracts, up 14 percent from February 2014. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is down 18 percent from 2014 with 233,960 contracts.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity was down 9 percent in new loans from February 2014 with 97,356 transactions last month. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 4 percent from 2014 with 203,122 new loan transactions in 2015. The average daily loan value cleared by OCC in February was $165,142,278,709.

	Feb 2015 Total Contract Volume	Feb 2014 Total Contract Volume	Feb Total Contract % Change vs. 2014	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2015	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2014	Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. 2014
Equity Options	275,262,981	307,184,466	-10.39%	15,280,815	16,470,886	-7.23%
Index Options	27,264,993	37,723,568	-27.72%	1,534,387	1,897,343	-19.13%
Total Options	302,527,974	344,908,034	-12.29%	16,815,203	18,368,229	-8.45%
Equity Futures	837,327	735,214	13.89%	35,494	33,721	5.26%
Index / Other Futures	3,166,538	4,863,829	-34.90%	198,466	250,617	-20.81%
Total Futures	4,003,865	5,599,043	-28.49%	233,960	284,338	-17.72%
Total Volume	306,531,839	350,507,077	-12.55%	17,049,163	18,652,567	-8.60%