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04 April 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

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The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) saw its central counterparty securities lending new loan volume soar by 47 percent year-on-year in March.

Over 455,000 securities lending transactions were recorded for March, with an average daily loan value of $145 billion.

OCC cleared futures also boomed in March, growing 62 percent year-on-year.

The average daily cleared futures volume in Q1 was 343,586 contracts, 53 percent higher than Q1 2015.

Overall exchange-listed options volume rose by a modest 3 percent during the same period, with 347 million contracts recorded over the month.

Equity options volume reached 309 million contracts, a slight increase of 0.26 percent from March 2015.

This includes cleared exchange-traded funds options, which went up by 11 percent year-to-year with a volume of 142 million contracts for March.

Index options volume was up 32 percent with 38 million contracts in March.

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