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Our colleague Alison Bodor, Executive Principal of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, recently sat down with Built In Chicago to highlight how OCC celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more on Built In’s website.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at Work
OCC is pleased to welcome Michael Nowak and Rob Hocking to our Board of Directors. Read more about their backgrounds and experience below.

OCC Adds Leaders from ABN AMRO and Cboe to Board of Directors
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11. In remembrance of that fateful day, OCC published a tribute to the victims on our website, which acknowledges the impact the events had on our country, our community, our industry, and our friends. Read it below.

Never Forget: Sept. 11th 20 Years Later
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. Read more below.

OCC August 2021 Total Volume Up 30.8 Percent Compared to August 2020
Congratulations to our colleague Araceli Mirelez for being accepted into the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement Mujeres de HACE women’s leadership program, a unique cohort-based program for Latina professionals to develop the leadership skills to succeed at the manager level or above. Learn more about Mujeres de HACE below.

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Congratulations to our colleague Shanta Rao for being named to the Built In inaugural class of Tech Innovator Award winners, which honors highly skilled technologists and visionaries who are breaking barriers and reimagining the future of tech. Shanta created a delivery pipeline OCC that helped to remove the manual work of ensuring all compliance documents are complete, freeing up resources for the team to work on other projects. Learn more about Shanta and all of this year’s winners:

Introducing Built In's 2021 Tech Innovator Award Winners
OCC’s Board of Directors, management and colleagues join the entire options community in honoring the life of Wayne Luthringshausen. Wayne is widely regarded as one of the founders of the U.S. listed options market. Read our full statement:

Remembering the Life and Legacy of Wayne Luthringshausen, OCC Founding President and CEO
OCC July 2021 total cleared contract volume was 794,793,709 contracts, up 29.2 percent compared to July 2020 and the highest July on record. Year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume through July was 39,175,394 contracts, up 38.2 percent compared to July 2020.

OCC July 2021 Total Volume Up 29.2 Percent from a Year Ago
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, family-friendly workplace policies are more critical than ever for minimizing the economic impact on working parents, especially women and people of color. OCC is proud to share that we have earned the Dallas 2021 Best Place for Working Parents™ designation in recognition of our family-friendly policies and practices, reflecting our commitment to working parents and, by extension, their children.

OCC Designated as Best Place for Working Parents™ in Dallas
Our Chief Human Resources Officer Carla Dawson caught up with Built In Chicago to share some insight into how our DEI strategy came to be

Should You Hire a Dedicated DEI Leader? 2 Chicago Leaders Weigh In