The value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 9.1 trillion, a 16 percent rise from April 2005 (€ 7.9 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 16 percent from € 3.5 trillion to € 4.1 trillion. On the domestic German business, securities held under custody rose by 16 percent from €
4.4 trillion to € 5.1 trillion.
For the Global Securities Financing services monthly average outstandings reached a new record high at € 240.7 billion. The combined services, which include tripartite repo, collateral management and securities lending, collectively experienced a rise of 36 percent from the same month last year (April 2005: € 177.2 billion).
Clearstream Banking's investment funds services also reached record with 278,170 transactions processed, almost 63 percent more than in April 2005 (170,746).