In October 2012, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of 3 percent to EUR 11.1 trillion (compared to EUR 10.8 trillion in October 2011). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business increased by 1 percent from EUR 5.8 trillion in October 2011 to EUR 5.9 trillion in October 2012 – while domestic German securities held under custody increased by 4 percent from EUR 5.0 trillion in October 2011 to EUR 5.2 trillion in October 2012.
In October 2012, 3.5 million international settlement transactions were processed, a 28 percent increase over October 2011 (2.8 million). Of all international transactions, 84 percent were OTC transactions and 16 percent were registered as stock exchange transactions. On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 6.2 million, 7 percent less than in October 2011 (6.7 million). Of these transactions, 64 percent were stock exchange transactions and 36 percent OTC transactions.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached EUR 551.3 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a drop of 16 percent over October 2011 (EUR 657.6 billion). Year-to-date October 2012 GSF monthly average outstanding is with EUR 573.9 billion 1 percent below the same period last year (year-to-date January to October 2011: EUR 580.5 billion).
In the Investment Funds Services (IFS), 0.59 million transactions were processed, a 65 percent increase over October 2011 (0.35 million). Year-to-date October 2012 IFS number of transactions processed is with 5.25 million 19 percent above the same period last year (year-to-date January to October 2011: 4.40 million).
Core business figures
October 2011 | October 2012 | |
Settlement transactions (in millions) | ||
OTC | 2.28 | 2.97 |
Stock Exchange | 0.49 | 0.57 |
International | 2.77 | 3.54 |
OTC | 2.19 | 2.23 |
Stock Exchange | 4.54 | 4.02 |
Domestic | 6.74 | 6.25 |
Total | 9.51 | 9.79 |
Assets under custody (in EUR trillion) | ||
Total | 10.82 | 11.10 |
International | 5.84 | 5.91 |
Domestic | 4.98 | 5.19 |