Within the Global Securities Financing services business, strong growth continued with the monthly average outstandings reaching EUR 180.7 billion. The combined services include tripartite repo, securities lending and collateral management and collectively experienced a rise of over 55.5 percent from the same month last year (February 2004: EUR 116.2 billion).
Clearstream's enhanced version of its investment funds service called Vestima+ showed further volume increases with the number of investment funds related instructions processed reaching 177,818 in February 2005, a rise of 7.2 percent from the same month last year (February 2004: 136,626).
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