The value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 9.1 trillion, a 12 percent rise from May 2005 (€ 8.1 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream's international business experienced a rise of 11 percent from € 3.6 trillion to € 4.0 trillion. On the domestic German business, securities held under custody rose by 13 percent from € 4.5 trillion to € 5.0 trillion.
For the Global Securities Financing services monthly average outstandings reached € 240.3 billion. The combined services, which include tripartite repo, collateral management and securities lending, collectively experienced a rise of 35 percent from the same month last year (May 2005: € 177.9 billion).
Clearstream Banking's investment funds services also reached record with 383,087 transactions processed, over 141 percent more than in May 2005 (158,533).