OCC's securities lending central counterparty activity was down 18 percent in new loans from May 2013, with 99,782 transactions recorded last month.
Year-to-date stock loan activity is down 8 percent from 2013, with 485,722 new loan transactions in 2014.
The average daily loan value at OCC in May was $117,951,459,426.
Total cleared contract volume reached 319,742,239 in May, an 18 percent decrease from the May 2013 volume of 391,347,069 contracts.
Its year-to-date cleared contract volume remains up for 2014, with 1,789,079,351 contracts, 1 percent higher than the same point in 2013.
OCC’s year-to-date average daily contract volume is up 2 percent at 17,369,702 contracts.
Futures cleared by OCC reached 4,112,004 contracts in May, a 16 percent decrease from the same month in 2013.
Its average daily cleared futures volume in 2014 is up 18 percent with 265,500 contracts. OCC’s year-to-date total cleared futures volume is up 16 percent with 27,346,548 contracts in 2014.
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