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OCC Cleared Contract Volume Down 18 Percent in July

Securities Lending CCP Activity Up 24 Percent in July and 41 Percent Year-to-Date

August 01, 2016
Chicago -

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in July was 317,045,566 contracts, down 18 percent from July 2015 volume of 385,404,937 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is up three percent with 16,687,086 contracts in 2016.

Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 308,897,552 contracts in July, a 19 percent decrease from July 2015 volume of 379,194,963 contracts. Year-to-date average daily options volume is up two percent from 2015 with 16,297,482 contracts in 2016.

Equity options volume in July was 274,773,760 contracts, a 19 percent decrease from July 2015. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 122,362,162 contracts last month, an 11 percent decrease over July 2015 volume of 137,697,836 contracts. Index options volume in July was down 13 percent with 34,123,792 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in July reached 8,148,014 contracts, a 31 percent increase from the July 2015 volume of 6,209,974 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is up 64 percent from 2015 with 389,604 contracts in 2016.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity activity in July 2016 was up 24 percent in new loans from July 2015 with 143,994 transactions. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 41 percent from 2015 with 1,092,472 new loan transactions in 2016. The average daily loan value cleared by OCC in July was $149,043,508,193.

For 2016 monthly exchange market share information, click here.

OCC CLEARED CONTRACT VOLUME JULY 2016
 
July 2016 Total Contract Volume
July 2015 Total Contract Volume
July Total Contract % Change vs. 2015
YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2016
YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2015
YTD Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. YTD 2015
Equity Options
274,773,760
340,149,220
-19.2%
14,540,751
14,510,111
0.2%
Index Options
34,123,792
39,045,743
-12.6%
1,756,731
1,505,137
16.7%
Total Options
308,897,552
379,194,963
-18.5%
16,297,482
16,015,248
1.8%
Total Futures
8,148,014
6,209,974
31.2%
389,604
237,723
63.9%
Total Volume
317,045,566
385,404,937
-17.7%
16,687,086
16,252,971
2.7%
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