In April 2010, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 7 percent to € 10.9 trillion (compared to € 10.2 trillion in April 2009). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 9 percent from € 5.4 trillion in April 2009 to € 5.8 trillion in April 2010 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 4 percent from € 4.8 trillion in April 2009 to € 5.0 trillion in April 2010.
In April 2010 3.21 million international transactions were processed, a 31 percent increase over April 2009 (2.44 million). International Over the Counter (OTC) bond transactions grew by 16 percent from 1.49 million to 1.74 million in April 2010. Of all international transactions, 73 percent were OTC transactions and 27 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.50 million, 10 percent more than in April 2009 (5.91 million). Of these transactions, 65 percent were stock exchange transactions and 35 percent OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached € 490.3 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 1 percent over April 2009 (€ 485.6 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 423,719 transactions were processed, a 54 percent increase over April 2009 (275,904).
