Articles from The Options Clearing Corporation

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the successful implementation of AWS generative AI (GenAI) technology to streamline internal development processes and enhance operational efficiency.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the reappointment of public Directors Mark Dehnert and Susan Lester, member Directors Stuart Bourne (Bank of America), Alicia Crighton (Goldman Sachs), and Boudewijn Duinstra (ABN AMRO Clearing, US), and Management Director Andrej Bolkovic. These reappointments are subject to approval at OCC’s Annual Stockholder meeting on April 10, 2025.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the appointment of Michael Kurd, Managing Director, Head of Americas Prime Financial Services at J.P. Morgan, as a Member Director to its Board of Directors. Kurd brings with him more than 20 years of experience, primarily in equity derivatives trading.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that Matt Rathbun has joined OCC as Chief Security Officer-Elect and will succeed current CSO Mark Morrison following his upcoming retirement. Rathbun has more than 25 years of experience in information technology and systems engineering, most recently as CSO for Two Sigma.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the addition of two members to its board of directors: Public Director Rachelle Keller, former financial executive, and Exchange Director Mike West, Head of Operations at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that MIAX Sapphire, LLC (MIAX Sapphire®) has become an OCC participant exchange. MIAX Sapphire, owned by parent holding company Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), launched operation of the MIAX Sapphire electronic exchange on August 12, 2024. MIAX Sapphire is MIAX’s fourth U.S. listed options exchange. With the addition of MIAX Sapphire, OCC now provides clearing and settlement services to 21 exchanges and trading platforms for options, futures and securities lending transactions.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the appointment of Josh Woods, Citadel Securities’ Chief Technology Officer, to its Board of Directors. Woods has nearly 20 years of experience in finance and technology.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the election of two Class II Member Directors and a Class III Public Director, as well as the appointment of five Exchange Directors, to its Board of Directors. In addition, OCC announced the election of Andrej Bolkovic, OCC Chief Executive Officer, as the Management Director. The vote took place during OCC’s annual stockholder meeting on April 19, 2024.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that Massimo Cutuli has joined OCC as Chief Financial Risk Officer-Elect and will succeed current CFRO Dale Michaels following his upcoming retirement.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the following updates to its Board of Directors:

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that MEMX LLC has become an OCC participant exchange. MEMX LLC began operating its options trading facility, MEMX Options, on September 27, 2023, bringing the total number of OCC’s participant exchanges and trading platforms to 20.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the appointment of Meaghan Dugan, Head of Options at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), to its Board of Directors. Dugan brings more than 20 years of experience in listed options trading and market making.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through June 2023 was 44.7 million contracts, up 8.7 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through June 2022. Total volume was 962.6 million contracts, up 19.4 percent compared to June 2022.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through May 2023 was 44.5 million contracts, up 6.6 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through May 2022. Total volume was 949.1 million contracts, up 9.5 percent compared to May 2022 and the third highest month in OCC’s history.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through April 2023 was 44.9 million contracts, up 7.2 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through April 2022. Total volume was 764.3 million contracts, down 2.4 percent compared to April 2022.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through March 2023 was 46.3 million contracts, up 8.4 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through March 2022. Total volume was 1.1 billion contracts, up 12.2 percent compared to March 2022. March 2023 was the highest total volume month in OCC’s history and the first time cleared contract volume surpassed 1 billion contracts in a single month.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the appointment of Joseph Lewis, Managing Director, Co-Head of Corporate Hedging and FX Solutions at Jefferies, to its Board of Directors. Lewis brings more than 20 years of experience in interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through January 2023 was 46.2 million contracts, up 2.9 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through January 2022. Total volume was 923.2 million contracts, up 2.9 percent compared to January 2022 and the third highest month in OCC’s history.

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OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through November 2022 was 41.3 million contracts, up 4.7 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through November 2021. Total volume was 922.4 million contracts, down 2.8 percent compared to November 2021 while ranking as the third highest month in OCC’s history.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that Vishal Thakkar, currently Acting Chief Risk Officer, has been officially appointed the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), effective immediately. Thakkar is responsible for implementing OCC’s risk management framework and serves on the Management Committee.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through October 2022 was 41.1 million contracts, up 5.6 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through October 2021. Total volume was 910.0 million contracts, up 10.2 percent compared to October 2021 and the fifth highest month in OCC’s history.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through September 2022 was 40.8 million contracts, up 5.1 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through September 2021. Total volume was 915.2 million contracts, up 12.0 percent compared to September 2021 and the third highest month in OCC’s history. September 2022 volume surpassed the previous third highest month, August 2022, by 0.3 percent.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, has been honored as the Americas Derivatives Clearing House of the Year in 2022 by GlobalCapital.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through August 2022 was 40.5 million contracts, up 4.2 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through August 2021. Total volume was 912.5 million contracts, up 13.3 percent compared to August 2021 and the third highest month in OCC’s history.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has granted recognition to OCC as a Tier 1 third-country central counterparty (TC-CCP) under Article 25 of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through May 2022 was 41.7 million contracts, up 6.0 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through May 2021. Total volume was 866.5 million contracts, up 19.7 percent compared to May 2021.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that year-to-date average daily volume through April 2022 was 41.8 million contracts, up 4.2 percent compared to year-to-date average daily volume through April 2021. Total volume was 782.8 million contracts, up 9.4 percent compared to April 2021.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that it set new annual cleared contract volume records for the U.S. exchange-listed options industry. In 2021, OCC cleared 9.93 billion total contracts (options and futures) and 9.87 billion options contracts. These numbers surpass the previous records, set in 2020, of 7.52 billion total contracts and 7.47 billion options contracts. Compared to 2020, OCC had a 32.0 percent increase in total contracts cleared and a 32.2 percent increase in options contracts cleared.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that October 2021 total cleared contract volume was 825,572,627 contracts, and total cleared contract volume to date in 2021 reached 8,128,660,661, surpassing the U.S. exchange-listed annual options volume record of 7.52 billion contracts set in 2020.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that September 2021 total cleared contract volume was 816,942,764 contracts, up 21.8 percent compared to September 2020 and the highest September on record. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through September 2021 was 38,846,212 contracts, up 34.6 percent compared to September 2020.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that August 2021 total cleared contract volume was 805,713,175 contracts, up 30.8 percent compared to August 2020 and the highest August on record. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through August was 38,839,193 contracts, up 36.4 percent compared to August 2020.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that June 2021 total cleared contract volume was 870,149,871 contracts, the second highest month in OCC’s history and up 32.7 percent compared to June 2020. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through June was 39,400,310 contracts, up 25.6 percent compared to June 2020.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that May 2021 total cleared contract volume was 723,741,756 contracts, up 32.7 percent compared to May 2020 and the highest May volume on record. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through May was 39,367,534 contracts, up 41.9 percent compared to May 2020.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced the hire of David Ye as Chief Risk Officer and a member of OCC’s Management Committee. With over 20 years of leadership experience in financial and operational risk management, including executive positions at State Street Global Markets and Nomura Holding Americas, Ye will be responsible for implementing OCC’s risk management strategy.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that April 2021 total cleared contract volume was 715,606,410 contracts, up 29.7 percent compared to April 2020 and the highest April volume on record. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through April was 40,143,253 contracts, up 44.1 percent compared to April 2020.

OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that The Options Industry Council will honor the late Joe Levin, former Cboe Vice President, Research and Product Development, who led the development of the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX®), with the Joseph W. Sullivan Options Industry Achievement Award. The award will be presented virtually at the 2021 Options Industry Conference on April 28.

As part of its continued commitment to deliver operational excellence to the users of the U.S. equity derivatives markets, OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced a reduction in clearing fees from four and a half cents ($0.045) per contract to two cents ($0.02) per contract effective June 1, 2021, subject to regulatory review.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today congratulated Gary Gensler on becoming the new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair.

OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced the election of three Class II Member Directors and two Class III Public Directors to its Board of Directors. In addition, Mr. Craig S. Donohue was re-elected as Executive Chairman of the Board. The vote took place during OCC’s annual stockholder meeting on April 14.