OCC Cleared Contract Volume Down 24 Percent In August - Securities Lending CCP Activity Grew 35 Percent In August And 41 Percent Year-To-Date

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in August was 331,447,840 contracts, down 24 percent from August 2015 record volume of 434,313,474 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is down three percent from 2015 with 16,375,448 contracts in 2016.