OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up Four Percent In March - Securities Lending Activity Up 47 Percent In March And 43 Percent Year-To-Date - ETF Options Volume Up 11 Percent From 2015

OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that total cleared contract volume in March reached 354,445,999 contracts, a four percent increase from March 2015. OCC's year-to-date volume is up six percent with 1,064,617,055 cleared contracts in the first quarter of 2016 compared to 1,006,510,362 contracts in the first quarter of 2015.