The value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to a new high of € 9.97 trillion, a 9 percent rise from March 2006 (€ 9.1 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 11 percent from € 4.1 trillion to € 4.5 trillion. On the domestic German business, securities held under custody rose by 7 percent from € 5.1 trillion to € 5.4 trillion.
For the Global Securities Financing services monthly average outstandings reached € 312.7 billion. The combined services, which includes triparty repo, securities lending and collateral management, collectively experienced a rise of over 33 percent from the same month last year (March 2006: EUR 234.3 billion).
In the Investment Funds services, business continues to grow with 404.938 transactions processed in March, over 8 percent more than a year ago (336.811).