OCC sees December sec lending boost 06 January 2016 Chicago Reporter: Drew Nicol
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The Options Clearing Corporation's (OCC) securities lending central counterparty (CCP) activities saw a 19 percent increase in new loans in December 2015 from the year before.
The CCP recorded 138,358 securities lending related transactions last month, compared to 116,240 in 2014.
Stock loan activity was up 16 percent in 2015 from the previous year with 1.3 million new loan transactions in 2015.
The average daily loan value at OCC in December was $155.79 million.
OCC also cleared 66.9 million futures contracts in 2015, a 1 percent decrease from 2014.
The corporation ended the year with seven million cleared futures contracts in December, up 15 percent from December 2014.
OCC’s average daily cleared futures volume was down 1 percent in 2015 with 265,496 contracts.
Exchange-listed options volume was down 3 percent in 2015 with four billion contracts.
Total options volume in December was 338.8 million contracts, down 4 percent from December 2014.
Average daily options volume in 2015 was down 3 percent with 16 million contracts.
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