OCC has calculated that its securities lending activity was up 14 percent in May and 23 percent year-to-date.
Year-to-date stock loan activity stock loan activity increased 23 percent from 2017 with 1,154,218 new loan transactions in 2018.
The average daily loan value at OCC in May was $189.6 billion.
Total cleared contract volume in May reached 411,264,931 contracts, an eight percent increase from May 2017 volume of 380,010,098.
OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is up 25 percent from 2017 with 21,321,765 contracts compared to 17,079,884 contracts in 2017.
Overall exchange-listed options volume reached 403,748,267 contracts in May, up 10 percent from May last year.
Equity options volume reached a total of 366,176,065 contracts, a 12 percent increase from May last year.
This includes cleared exchange traded fund options volume of 150,994,638 contracts last month, a 12 percent increase over May 2017 volume of 134,835,545 contracts.
Futures cleared by OCC reached 7,516,664 contracts in May, down 44 percent from May 2017.
OCC鈥檚 year-to-date average daily cleared futures volume was 465,648 contracts, 15 percent less than 2017.
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