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In September Clearstream processed 1.75 million (September 2005: 1.72 million) international transactions. Of these transactions, 78 percent were Over the Counter (OTC) transactions and 22 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions. Domestic settlement transactions in Germany stood at 2.63 million compared to 2.82 million for the same month last year. Of these transactions 65 percent were stock exchange transactions and 35 percent OTC transactions.
The value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 9.3 trillion, a 9 percent rise from September 2005 (€ 8.6 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 8 percent from € 3.9 trillion to € 4.2 trillion. On the domestic German business, securities held under custody rose by 10 percent from € 4.7 trillion to € 5.1 trillion.
For the Global Securities Financing services monthly average outstandings reached a record high at EUR 268.8 billion. The combined services, which includes tripartite repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 35 percent from the same month last year (September 2005: EUR 199.0 billion).
Clearstream Banking's investment funds services processed 243,399 transactions, almost 6 percent more than in September 2005 (230,410).
