As reported by Securities Lending Times:
Chicago
04 December 2012
Equity finance exchange OneChicago has released its November 2012 figures, revealing that volume of 481,724 was up 13 percent over October 2012.
Other November highlights included 464,923 exchange futures for physicals (EPFs) blocks traded, with EPFs and blocks activity representing $1.7 billion in notional value.
Fifty percent of November 2012 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk products. In the same month, open interest stood at 532,597 contracts on the equity finance exchange, up 9 percent compared with October 2012.
Finally, 61,094 of November 2012 futures valued at more than $281 million were taken to delivery, emphasising the use of single stock futures as an equity finance product.