OCC Volume Across All Cleared Products Rose Significantly in January

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Feb 1, 2013) - OCC announced today that total cleared contract volume in January reached 365,027,878 contracts. This represents an 8 percent increase from the January 2012 volume of 337,222,938 contracts. OCC's options and futures volume was up significantly last month, making it the second highest January for OCC cleared contract volume on record behind January 2011. OCC's stock loan program also reported a strong start to the year.

Options: Exchange-listed options trading volume in January reached 361,071,621 contracts, an 8 percent increase from January 2012. Equity options trading volume was up 4 percent from the previous January with 327,265,575 contracts. Index options trading volume was up 53 percent from the previous January with 33,806,046 contracts. Average daily options volume for the month was 17,193,887 contracts.

Futures: Futures cleared by OCC reached 3,956,257 contracts in January, a 117 percent increase from January 2012. Equity futures volume reached 537,739 contracts, an increase of 78 percent from January 2012. Index and other futures volume was up 125 percent from January 2012 with 3,418,518 contracts. OCC cleared an average of 188,393 futures contracts per day in January 2013.

Securities Lending: OCC's securities lending CCP activities saw a 57 percent increase in new loans over January 2012 with 100,574 transactions last month. The average daily loan value at OCC in January 2013 was $44,231,813,101.

	Jan 2013 Total Contract Volume	Jan 2012 Total Contract Volume	Total Contract % Change vs. 2012	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2013	YTD. Avg. Daily Contract 2012	Avg. Daily Contract % Change vs. 2012
Equity Options	327,265,575	313,363,017	4.44%	15,584,075	15,668,151	-0.54%
Index Options	33,806,046	22,036,982	53.41%	1,609,812	1,101,849	46.10%
Total Options	361,071,621	335,399,999	7.65%	17,193,887	16,770,000	2.53%
Equity Futures	537,739	301,804	78.17%	25,607	15,090	69.70%
Index / Other Futures	3,418,518	1,521,135	124.73%	162,787	76,057	114.03%
Total Futures	3,956,257	1,822,939	117.03%	188,393	91,147	106.69%
Total Volume	365,027,878	337,222,938	8.25%	17,382,280	16,861,147	3.09%

About OCC

OCC is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC operates under the jurisdiction of both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a Registered Clearing Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Derivatives Clearing Organization. OCC now provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 17 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial and commodity futures, security futures and securities lending transactions. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.