Clearstream reveals positive figures for 2015

Clearstream has reported generally positive results for December 2015, and for the last year as a whole, including significant increases in assets under custody and domestic settlement transactions.

In December, the value of assets under custody saw a 6 percent increase, reaching €13.3 trillion compared to €12.5 trillion in December 2014.

Securities held in the international central securities depository increased by 8 percent to reach €7.2 trillion, compared to €6.7 trillion in December 2014, and those help locally in the German central securities depository (CSD) increased by 4 percent to reach €6 trillion, compared to €5.8 trillion in December 2014.

For 2015 as a whole, the average value of assets held under custody was €13.3 trillion. This represents an increase of 9 percent over the 2014 average of €12.2 trillion.

Clearstream’s settlement business processed 3.5 million international transactions in December 2015, a decrease of 2 percent compared to December 2014, which saw 3.6 million transactions.

Of all international transactions in December 2015, 83 percent were over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, and 17 percent were registered on the stock exchange.

In 2015 as a whole, Clearstream processed 44.1 million international transactions, 1 percent more than the 2014 total of 43.7 million.

In December 2015, 7.8 million settlement transactions were processed on the domestic German CSD, an increase of 5 percent over December 2014, which saw a total of 7.4 million. The majority of these, 62 percent, were stock exchange transactions, while 38 percent were OTC.

In 2015 as a whole, Clearstream processed 94 million settlement transactions domestically, a significant 14 percent increase over the 82.7 million domestic transactions in 2014.

In its investment fund services business, Clearstream saw a slight dip of 4 percent, from 820,000 transactions in December 2014 to 790,000 in December 2015.

However, in 2015 as a whole, the business registered an increase of 11 percent, processing 9.7 million transactions in 2015, compared to 8.8 million in 2014.