OCC Announces Cleared Contract Volume Increased 10 Percent In February - Securities Lending Activity Up 10 Percent In February And 41 Percent Year-To-Date

OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that total cleared contract volume in February was 338,300,969 contracts, up 10 percent from February 2015 volume of 306,531,839 contracts. OCC's year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is up seven percent from 2015 with 18,209,514 contracts.