On Tuesday, OCC announced that total cleared contract volume reached 327,922,056 in June, an 11 percent decrease from the June 2013 volume of 67,660,030?contracts.?OCC?s year-to-date cleared contract volume is off 1 percent from 2013 with 2,117,001,407 contracts, marking the fifth consecutive year that first half cleared volume reached 2 billion contracts.

Here’s a product breakdown.

Options

  • Exchange-listed options trading volume reached?321,358,397?contracts in June, down 11 percent from June 2013.?
  • Year-to-date (YTD) total options?volume is down 1 percent compared to the first half of last year with 2,083,091,200 contracts.?
  • YTD average daily options trading volume is?16,799,123?contracts, 1 percent lower than 2013.

?Futures

  • OCC cleared futures volume reached?6,563,659?contracts in June, up 1 percent from June 2013.
  • YTD total cleared futures volume is up 13 percent with?33,910,207?contracts in the first half of 2014.
  • OCC?s YTD average daily cleared futures volume is up 13 percent with?273,469 contracts.

Securities Lending

  • OCC’s securities lending CCP activity was down 17 percent in new loans from June 2013 with 100,658 transactions last month.
  • YTD stock loan activity is down 9 percent from 2013 with 586,380 new loan transactions in 2014.
  • June average daily loan value at OCC was $139,132,902,307.