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OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up Two Percent in September

  • Securities Lending Activity Up 29 Percent in September and 39 Percent Year-to-Date
October 03, 2016
Chicago -

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in September was 367,641,787 contracts, up two percent from September 2015 volume of 361,537,608 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is down two percent from 2015 with 16,501,149 contracts in 2016.

Options: Exchange-listed options volume reached 357,041,027 contracts in September, up one percent from September 2015 volume of 354,782,668 contracts. Year-to-date average daily options volume is down three percent from 2015 with 16,100,096 contracts in 2016.

Equity options volume in September was 319,042,080 contracts, a two percent increase from September 2015. This includes cleared ETF options volume of 145,850,238 contracts last month, a six percent decrease over September 2015 volume of 154,382,062 contracts. Index options volume in September was down 11 percent with 37,998,947 contracts.

Futures: OCC cleared futures volume in September reached 10,600,760 contracts, a 57 percent increase from the September 2015 volume of 6,754,940 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume is up 53 percent from 2015 with 401,053 contracts in 2016.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activity in September 2016 was up 29 percent in new loans from September 2015 with 168,460 transactions. Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 39 percent from 2015 with 1,421,730 new loan transactions in 2016. The average daily loan value cleared by OCC in September was $162,587,210,735.

For 2016 monthly exchange market share information, click here.

OCC CLEARED CONTRACT VOLUME SEPTEMBER 2016
 
September 2016 Total Contract Volume
September 2015 Total Contract Volume
September 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
319,042,080
311,951,747
2.3%
14,373,640
14,915,132
-3.6%
Index Options
37,998,947
42,830,921
-11.3%
1,726,456
1,677,089
2.9%
Total Options
357,041,027
354,782,668
0.7%
16,100,096
16,592,221
-3.0%
Total Futures
10,600,760
6,754,940
56.9%
401,053
263,018
52.5%
Total Volume
367,641,787
361,537,608
1.7%
16,501,149
16,855,238
-2.1%
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