OCC Sees Fewer Loans in January

OCC’s securities lending CCP activities saw a 0.35% decline in new loans from January 2014 with 105,766 transactions last month.

The average daily loan value at OCC in January was $156 billion.

It’s average daily cleared contract volume for the month of January was down 5% from January 2014 with 17,919,276 contracts and one less trading day. Total OCC cleared contract volume in January reached 358,385,522 contracts, a 9% decrease from the 2014 record January volume of 395,595,620 contracts. Despite this decline, January 2015 represents the fourth highest January volume for OCC to date.