- Options Clearing Corporation
- ( OCC)Applies to derivative products. financial institution that is the actual issuer and guarantor of all listed option contracts. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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Options Clearing Corporation — Industry clearing Founded 1973 Headquarters Chicago, IL … Wikipedia
Options Clearing Corporation - OCC — An organization that acts as both the issuer and guarantor for option and futures contracts. The Options Clearing Corporation operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodities Futures Trading … Investment dictionary
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Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation - CDCC — The central clearing counterparty for exchange traded derivative products, such as options and futures, in Canada. The Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC) also acts as the clearinghouse for a growing range of over the counter… … Investment dictionary
Clearing house (finance) — A clearing house is a financial institution that provides clearing and settlement services for financial and commodities derivatives and securities transactions. These transactions may be executed on a futures exchange or securities exchange, as… … Wikipedia
Options Industry Council - OIC — A cooperative formed in 1992 by U.S. options exchanges and Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) to educate investors and financial advisers regarding the benefits and risks of exchange traded equity options. The Options Industry Council (OIC)… … Investment dictionary
Clearing (finance) — In banking and finance, clearing denotes all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. Clearing is necessary because the speed of trades is much faster than the cycle time for completing the underlying… … Wikipedia
Clearing Member Trade Agreement - CMTA — An agreement by which an investor may enter derivative trades with a limited number of different brokers and later consolidate these trades with one brokerage house for clearing. When the position is consolidated, some brokers will give up their… … Investment dictionary
Options Symbology Initiative — The Options Symbology Initiative is a method that is being introduced by the Options Clearing Corporation to standardize and simplify option ticker symbols. It is being rolled out industry wide in February 2010. Links… … Wikipedia
Chicago Board Options Exchange — The Chicago Board Options Exchange (NASDAQ: CBOE), located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange with annual trading volume that hovered around one billion contracts at the end of 2007.[1] CBOE offers… … Wikipedia
