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In January 2013, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 3 percent to EUR 11.3 trillion (compared to EUR 11.0 trillion in January 2012). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business increased by 1 percent from EUR 5.89 trillion in January 2012 to EUR 5.92 trillion in January 2013 – while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 5 percent from EUR 5.1 trillion in January 2012 to EUR 5.3 trillion in January 2013.
In January 2013, 3.6 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 22 percent increase over January 2012 (3.0 million). Of all international transactions, 83 percent were OTC transactions and 17 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions. On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.8 million, 3 percent more than in January 2012 (6.6 million). Of these transactions, 66 percent were stock exchange transactions and 34 percent OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached EUR 548.8 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a drop of 8 percent over January 2012 (EUR 594.0 billion).
In the Investment Funds Services (IFS), 0.67 million transactions were processed, a 41 percent increase over January 2012 (0.48 million).
