In April 2011, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 4 percent to € 11.3 trillion (compared to € 10.9 trillion in April 2010). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a slight rise of 1 percent from € 5.8 trillion in April 2010 to € 5.9 trillion in April 2011 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 8 percent from € 5.0 trillion in April 2010 to € 5.4 trillion in April 2011.
In April 2011, 3.08 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 4 percent decrease over April 2010 (3.21 million) due to less activity on the stock exchange. Of all international transactions, 77 percent were OTC transactions and 23 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.39 million, 2 percent less than in April 2010 (6.50 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 € 542.5 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 11 percent over April 2010 (€ 490.3 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 0.40 million transactions were processed, a 6 percent decrease over April 2010 (0.42 million).
