GSF down but AUA up for Clearstream
Clearstream has released its January 2013 figures, which show a decrease in global securities finance (GSF), but an increase in assets under custody.
In February 2013, assets under custody held on behalf of customers reached €11.4 trillion, a year-on-year increase of four percent.
For GSF services, the monthly average outstanding reached €563.3 billion. The combined services, which include triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a drop of six percent over February 2012.
The investment funds services saw an 18 percent increase over February 2012, with 0.62 million transactions processed.
