Clearstream’s Global Securities Financing (GSF) services reported a monthly average outstanding of 594 billion in January. The combined services, which include tri-party repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a 21% rise over January 2011 (490.6 billion).
In January 2012, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered a decrease of 4% to 11.0 trillion (compared to 11.4 trillion in January 2011). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business decreased by 1% from 6.0 trillion in January 2011 to 5.9 trillion in January 2012 while domestic German securities held under custody decreased by 6% from 5.4 trillion in January 2011 to 5.1 trillion in January 2012.
In January 2012, 3.0 million international settlement transactions were processed, an 11 % decrease over January 2011 (3.3 million). Of all international transactions, 80% were OTC transactions and 20% were registered as stock exchange transactions. On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.6 million, 9% less than in January 2011 (7.3 million). Of these transactions, 67% were stock exchange transactions and 33% OTC transactions.
In the Investment Funds services, 0.48 million transactions were processed, 5% decrease over January 2011 (0.50 million).
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