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In January 2010, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 6 percent to € 10.6 trillion (compared to € 10.0 trillion in January 2009), primarily due to bonds business. Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from € 5.3 trillion in January 2009 to € 5.6 trillion in January 2010 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 5 percent from € 4.7 trillion in January 2009 to € 5.0 trillion in January 2010.
In January 2010 2.75 million international transactions were processed, a 16 percent increase over January 2009 (2.37 million). International Over the Counter (OTC) bond transactions grew by 8 percent from 1.43 million to 1.47 million in January 2010. Of all international transactions, 72 percent were OTC transactions and 28 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 5.92 million, 9 percent more than in January 2009 (5.46 million). Of these transactions, 67 percent were stock exchange transactions and 33 percent OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached € 490.6 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of over 13 percent over January 2009 (€ 434.3 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 369,901 transactions were processed, a 5 percent increase over January 2009 (353,644) and the first increase in twelve months.
