In April 2011, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 4% to 11.3 trillion, compared to 10.9 trillion in April 2010.
Securities held under custody in Clearstreams international business experienced a slight rise of 1% from 5.8 trillion in April 2010 to 5.9 trillion in April 2011 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 8% from 5.0 trillion in April 2010 to 5.4 trillion in April 2011.
In April 2011, 3.08 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 4 percent decrease over April 2010 (3.21 million) due to less activity on the stock exchange.
Of all international transactions, 77% were OTC transactions and 23% were registered as stock exchange transactions.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.39 million, 2% less than in April 2010 (6.50 million). Of these transactions, 65% were stock exchange transactions and 35% OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached 542.5 billion. The combined services, which include tri-party repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 11% over April 2010 ( 490.3 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, 0.40 million transactions were processed, a 6% decrease over April 2010 (0.42 million).
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