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Clearstream processed 2.48 million international transactions in August 2007, a 47 percent rise over August 2006 (1.69 million). Of these transactions, 75 percent were Over the Counter (OTC) transactions and 25 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions. Domestic settlement transactions in Germany stood at 4.44 million compared to 2.87 million for the same month last year (a rise of 55 percent). Of these transactions 68 percent were stock exchange transactions and 32 percent OTC transactions.
The value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to €10.5 trillion, a 14 percent rise from August 2006 (€9.2 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 15 percent from €4.1 trillion to € 4.8 trillion. On the domestic German business, securities held under custody rose by 13 percent from €5.1 trillion to €5.7 trillion.
For the Global Securities Financing services monthly average outstandings reached € 321.6 billion. The combined services, which includes triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a strong rise of over 21 percent from the same month last year (August 2006: €264.4 billion). On September 3, Clearstream together with Eurex extended the Euro GC Pooling basket from German securities to ECB eligible international securities thus creating a much larger collateral pool for Clearstream’s clients. This extension allows customers to actively manage their euro liquidity as well as to optimize the use of their collateral through the access to Clearstream’s range of triparty collateral management offering.
The Investment Funds services processed 412,470 transactions in August, 39 percent more than a year ago (August 2006: 250,798).
