On Monday, OCC announced that total cleared volume in February reached 350,507,077 contracts, an 8 percent increase from the February 2013 volume of 325,237,351 contracts. OCC?s year-to-date total cleared contract volume is up 8 percent in 2014 with 746,102,697 contracts.
Here’s a look at product breakdowns for February activity:
Options
- Exchange-listed options trading volume reached 344,908,034, a 7 percent increase from the February 2013 volume of 320,943,312 contracts.
- Average daily options trading volume for the month was 18,153,055 contracts, 7 percent higher than February of last year.
- Year-to-date options trading volume is up 8 percent from 2013 with 734,729,169 contracts.
Futures
- Cleared futures volume reached 5,599,043 contracts, a 30 percent increase from the February 2013 volume of 4,294,039 contracts.
- OCC cleared an average of 294,686 futures contracts per day last month, a 30 percent increase from February 2013.
- Year-to-date cleared futures volume is up 38 percent with 11,373,528 contracts in 2014.
Securities Lending
- OCC’s securities lending CCP activities saw a 2 percent decline in new loans over February 2013 with 88,536 transactions last month.
- Year-to-date stock loan activity is up 2 percent from 2013 with 194,670 new loan transactions in 2014.
- Average daily loan value at OCC in February was $90,698,085,343