The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, set new annual cleared contract volume records.
In 2021, OCC cleared 9.93 billion total contracts — options and futures — and 9.87 billion options contracts. This breaks the previous records of 7.52 billion total contracts and 7.47 billion options contracts set in 2020. OCC had a 32 percent increase in total contracts cleared and a 32.2 percent increase in options contracts cleared compared to 2020.
Further, Decemberʻs cleared contract volume was the highest December on record with 850,697,592 cleared contracts, up 12.4 percent from the previous December. The average daily cleared contract volume for the full year was 39,399,822 contracts, up 32.5 percent compared to 2020.
Also, OCC’s average daily loan value for securities lending was $147,689,142,573 — an all-time high. It represented a 46.5 percent increase compared to December 2020.
Total exchange-listed options cleared contract volume for 2021 reached 9,870,168,340, up 32.2 percent year over year. The options volume in December was 845,371,667, up 12.2 percent compared to December 2020.
Total futures cleared contract volume for 2021 was 58,586,820, an increase of 2.5 percent compared to 2020. December 2021 futures contract volume was 5,325,925, up 56.9 percent increase compared to December 2020.
OCC’s average daily loan value in December 2021 was $147,689,142,573 — up 46.5 percent from December 2020.