OCC Cleared Contract Volume Grew 4% in June

Chicago -

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in June reached 340,826,276 contracts, up 4 percent from June 2014 volume of 327,922,056 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is down 6 percent from 2014 with 16,028,458 contracts in 2015.

Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 334,470,144 contracts in June, a 4 percent increase from June 2014 volume of 321,358,397 contracts. Year-to-date average daily options volume is down 6 percent from 2014 with 15,798,639 contracts in 2015.

Equity options volume in June was 298,418,532 contracts, a 4 percent increase from June 2014. Index options volume in June was up 9 percent from June 2014 with 36,051,612 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in June reached 6,356,132 contracts, a 3 percent decrease from the June 2014 volume of 6,563,659 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is down 16 percent from 2014 with 229,819 contracts in 2015.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity in June 2015 was up 15 percent in new loans from June 2014 with 115,658 transactions. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 12 percent from 2014 with 655,726 new loan transactions in 2015. The average daily loan value cleared by OCC in June was $192,212,078,842.

OCC CLEARED CONTRACT VOLUME JUNE 2015

OCC CLEARED CONTRACT VOLUME JUNE 2015
	June 2015 Total Contract Volume	June 2014 Total Contract Volume	June Total Contract % Change vs. 2014	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2015	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2014	Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. 2014
Equity Options	298,418,532	288,321,310	3.5%	14,341,347	15,136,537	-5.3%
Index Options	36,051,612	33,037,087	9.1%	1,457,292	1,662,586	-12.4%
Total Options	334,470,144	321,358,397	4.1%	15,798,639	16,799,123	-6.0%
Total Futures	6,356,132	6,563,659	-3.2%	229,819	273,469	-16.0%
Total Volume	340,826,276	327,922,056	3.9%	16,028,458	17,072,592	-6.1%