In January 2011, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 8 percent to € 11.4 trillion (compared to € 10.6 trillion in January 2010). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from € 5.6 trillion in January 2010 to € 6.0 trillion in January 2011 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 9 percent from € 5.0 trillion in January 2010 to € 5.4 trillion in January 2011.
In January 2011, 3.3 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 21 percent increase over January 2010 (2.8 million). Of all international transactions, 69 percent were OTC transactions and 31 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 7.3 million, 23 percent more than in January 2010 (5.9 million). Of these transactions, 68 percent were stock exchange transactions and 32 percent OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached € 550.7 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 12 percent over January 2010 (€ 490.6 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 0.50 million transactions were processed, a 35 percent increase over January 2010 (0.37 million.).