In December 2010, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered an increase of six per cent to a new all-time high of 11.3 trillion euros compared to 10.7 trillion euros in December 2009.
Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of seven per cent from 5.5 trillion euros in December 2009 to 5.9 trillion euros in December 2010 while domestic German securities held under custody increased by four per cent from 5.2 trillion euros in December 2009 to 5.4 trillion euros in December 2010.
For 2010, yearly average of the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers reached 10.9 trillion euros compared to 10.3 trillion euros in 2009, an increase of five per cent.
In December 2010, 3.5 million international settlement transactions were processed, an increase of 31 per cent year-on-year (December 2009: 2.6 million).
Of all international transactions, 70 per cent were OTC transactions and 30 per cent were registered as stock exchange transactions. In total, Clearstream processed 37.1 million international transactions in 2010, an increase of 21 per cent compared to 2009 and the highest ever recorded level.
On the German domestic market, settlement transactions reached 7.2 million, 19 per cent more than in December 2009 (6.0 million). Of these transactions, 67 per cent were stock exchange transactions and 33 per cent OTC transactions.
In 2010, Clearstream processed 79.3 million domestic settlement transactions compared to 71.4 million in 2009, an increase of 11 per cent.
For Global Securities Financing (GSF) services, the monthly average outstanding reached the record of 572.4 billion euros in December 2010. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of 12 per cent over December 2009 (509.4 billion euros). For the year 2010, monthly average outstanding reached 521.6 billion euros compared to 483.6 billion euros in 2009, an increase of eight per cent.
In the Investment Funds services, 507,793 transactions were processed in December 2010, the peak in 2010 and a 38 per cent increase over December 2009 (367,146). In 2010, 5.1 million transactions were processed, a 32 per cent increase over 2009 (3.9 million). The assets held under custody in the Investment Funds services reached an all-time high of 212.4 billion euros in December 2010, a 34 per cent increase compared with December 2009 (158,1 billion euros).
