OneChicago Announces June 2014 Trading Volume up 63% Compared to June 2013

--Year-to-date volume outpacing record breaking year of 2013 by 10%

--Average June block trade size was 680 (68.000 share equivalent)

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Jul 01, 2014, 01:35 ET

CHICAGO, July 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OneChicago, LLC (OCX), an equity finance exchange, today announced its June 2014 volume of 1,269,074, a 63% increase year-over-year. OneChicago is a CFTC and SEC regulated exchange offering Single Stock Futures (SSF), a Delta One product, on approximately 1,500 equities, including ADRs and ETFs.

June 2014 highlights include:

OCX.Weekly products with 1 day delivery cycle were launched on June 20. The OCX.Weekly product lists each day of the week, expiring one week later. Critically, they settle to stock on expiration +1, in contrast to our monthly expirations which settles to stock on expiration +3.

Open interest increased 8% year-over-year to 633,251 contracts on the equity finance exchange at close-of-market, June 30, 2014.

1,254,954 Exchange Futures for Physicals (EFPs) and blocks were traded. June 2014 EFP and block activity represented $6.7 billion in notional value.

56% of June 2014 month-end open interest was in OCX.NoDivRisk™ products. The OCX.NoDivRisk product suite is an innovative equity finance tool, which removes dividend risk for customers carrying equity delta exposure through derivatives.

Month End Volume and Open Interest - Summary
For 06/2014
Type	06/2014 Avg Daily Volume	06/2014 Total Volume	Previous Year Monthly Volume	% Change	YTD Total Volume	Month End Open Interest
ETF	11,357	238,499	206,833	15%	1,295,156	131,583
SSF	49,075	1,030,575	573,300	80%	3,662,216	501,668
Exchange Total	60,432	1,269,074	780,133	63%	4,957,372	633,251

ABOUT ONECHICAGO

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OneChicago (OCX) is the only US equity finance exchange for trading security futures and the related EFP. Regulated by the SEC and CFTC, OCX lists approximately 2,800 products, including ADRs, ETFs and OCX.NoDivRisk™ contracts. Contracts are cleared through the centralized counterparty, "AA+"-rated OCC. Security futures, a Delta One product, are utilized for synthetic equity strategies including equity swaps, equity repos and stock loan/borrow transactions. The OneChicago OCX.NoDivRisk, Exchange Futures for Physical transaction is economically equivalent to a Securities Lending Transaction.

OCX.NoDivRisk contracts are security futures with dividends removed from the pricing as the future's price is adjusted down by the value of the dividend on Ex-date. For more information, please visit our Website at: http://www.OneChicago.com or contact us at 312-424-8520.

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