In its annual report, Clearstream acknowledged that the drop in equity market valuations had contributed to its 7 percent decline in the number of transactions processed.
The value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers also fell by 6 percent, to 10.2 trillion at the end of 2008 from 10.8 trillion at the same time in 2007.
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