In February 2010, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 7 percent to € 10.7 trillion (compared to € 9.9 trillion in February 2009). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 8 percent from € 5.3 trillion in February 2009 to € 5.7 trillion in February 2010 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 7 percent from € 4.6 trillion in February 2009 to € 5.0 trillion in February 2010.
In February 2010 2.79 million international transactions were processed, a 23 percent increase over February 2009 (2.26 million). International Over the Counter (OTC) bond transactions grew by more than 16 percent from 1.41 million to 1.63 million in February 2010. Of all international transactions, 77 percent were OTC transactions and 23 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.03 million, 16 percent more than in February 2009 (5.20 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 € 488.6 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 7 percent over February 2009 (€ 454.7 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 360,500 transactions were processed, a 30 percent increase over February 2009 (277,804).