Assets Under Custody at Clearstream Rise in August

The value of assets under custody held at Clearstream on behalf of customers reached €11.6 trillion, a 4% increase on the prior year.

Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business increased by 2% from €6 trillion in August 2012 to €6.1 trillion in August 2013 – while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 6% from €5.1 trillion in August 2012 to €5.4 trillion in August 2013.

In August 2013, 3.1 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 3% decrease over August 2012 (3.2 million). Of all international transactions, 83% were OTC transactions and 17 % were registered as stock exchange transactions. On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.5 million, 8% more than in August 2012 (6.0 million). Of these transactions, 65 percent were stock exchange transactions and 35% OTC transactions.

For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached €562.5 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced an increase of 1% over August 2012 (€557.7 billion). At EUR 570.8 billion, the year-to-date August 2013 GSF monthly average outstanding is 1% below the same period last year (year-to-date January to August 2012: €579.4 billion).

In the Investment Funds Services (IFS), 0.61 million transactions were processed, a 3% increase over August 2012 (0.59 million).